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Seven earn all-conference at MWC meet
Release Date: November 2, 2009
MONMOUTH, Ill. —
Four Monmouth
College women and three men were named all-conference after
Saturday’s Midwest Conference cross country championships at Rock
Cut State Park in Loves Park, Ill.
The Scots’ men
placed third in the 8K team competition for the third consecutive
year. They were just five points behind Ripon for second. Perennial
power Grinnell took first.
Monmouth’s women
placed third on the 6K course, just two points behind runner up
Carroll and 11 points back of title winner Grinnell.
Katie Staab
became the Fighting Scots’ first women’s four-time all-conference
cross country runner after placing fourth Saturday. The senior
clocked a 24:06.78 to finish just behind teammate Mary Kate Beyer
who captured her third all-league honor. Beyer’s time of 23:28.69
was just five seconds behind the runner up. Freshman Rachel
Bowden placed 11th in 25:16.51 and earned all-conference
recognition while senior Amy Aghababian’s 25:54.60 placed her
19th to earn her second all-league honor.
Brittney Frazier
placed 36th, Whitney Didier was 40th, Tori Beaty 47th
and Marlee Lane was 60th to round out the women’s field.
Two sophomores and a
freshman earned their first all-league honors on the men’s side.
Geoff Bird’s 27:57.74 placed him eighth, Jon Welty was
10th at 28:02.82 and Connor Shields finished 17th in
28:18.54. Freshman Paul Davies clocked a 28:27.12 to place
22nd, just six seconds out of an all-conference performance.
Senior Damon
Bautista placed 26th, just in front of Jake Barr. Alan
Rosiquez placed 30th and Craig Maher was 45th. Matt
Gatlin (61st), Nate Jones (81st), Brian Daly
(84th), Tim Bentz (105th) and Peter Lipinski (113th)
rounded out the men’s runners.
The team will be off
until the NCAA Regional Meet at Oshkosh, Wis., on Nov. 14.
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