SALEM, Ore.—All 12 Lewis & Clark College womens' cross country runners posted their best 5K times of the season on Saturday morning at the Charles Bowles Williamtte Invitational.
THE BASICS
Women's Cross Country – 20
th out of 28 Teams – 552 Points
HOW IT HAPPENED
Junior
Malia Heien ran the fifth-fastest 5K time in program history to lead Lewis & Clark in their second-to-last tune-up before the Northwest Conference Championship Meet.
Heien placed 29
th overall with a PR time of 18:04.60. Heien moved steadily through the field across the 5K. She sat in 49
th place at the first checkpoint, before moving up to 31
st at the second marker and 29
th at the finish line. She was the first NCAA DIII runners to cross the finish line.
Senior
Miriam Reside returned to the lineup on Saturday and finished second on the team. She registered a PR time of 19:51.30 to finish in 125
th place.
Juniors
Skylar Willow and
Nadia Cota finished in 161
st and 168
th places. Willow posted a season-best mark of 20:27.70. Cota, who missed the last meet due to injury, added a PR time of her own. She crossed the line in 20:39.80.
Sophomore
Talia Tomhave finished fifth on the team. She notched a season-best time of 20:54.50.
Sophomore
Maeva Conroy placed 197
th overall. She recorded a PR time of 20:58.70 to finish sixth on the squad.
Junior
Melissa Zurla and senior
Emogene Lutz finished back-to-back in 212
th and 214
th. Zurla notched a PR time of 21:22.90. Lutz added a season-best time of 21:24.60.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Heien finished 42 spots ahead of the next highest DIII finisher. Her time of 18:04.60 was a PR by 14 seconds.
- Senior Ali Kerschner placed 220nd with a time of 21:32.40 (PR). First year Tesla Curtis notched a PR time of 22:04.20 (234th).
- Lewis & Clark finished fourth out of five NCAA DIII teams on Saturday. #30 George Fox placed one spot ahead of Lewis & Clark and beat the Pioneers by just seven points.
- First year Katherine Scannell (23:40.20) and junior Carolyn Mayberry (23:59.30) finished back-to-back in 259th and 260th. Scannell's time was a PR and Mayberry's was a season-best in her first race of the year.
WHO'S NEXT
Lewis & Clark will travel back to Salem on Saturday, October 18, for the George Oja Linfield Invitational.
