posted October 11, 2008
The Chattanooga cross country teams swept the competition at the 2008 Great American Cross Country Festival Saturday morning at Veterans Park in Hoover, Ala.
In the women’s race, Chattanooga took the top six spots including unattached runners as the Lady Mocs won the race with 17 points with South Alabama finishing second with 81 points.
Senior Sabrina Lefort ran the 5-kilometer course in a time of 18:55.0 to claim the top spot followed by teammates Tara Gietema (19:00.6) in second and Katie Williams (19:11.9) in third. Also scoring for the Lady Mocs was Emily Wood in fourth in scoring in a time of 19:30.0 and Meredith White in seventh at 19:49.0.
Chattanooga’s unattached runners Anneli Uys finished fourth overall in the race with a time of 19:27.5 and Shelley Taylor was sixth overall at 19:37.3.
North Alabama was third in the women’s race with 85 points while Birmingham Southern finished fourth with 105 points and Troy was fifth with 111 points.
The Mocs claimed the top spot in the men’s race led by sophomore transfer Emmanuel Kirwa in second at 25:28.6 in the 8-kilometer race. David Moore placed fourth for Chattanooga in a time of 26:18.1 and Joshue Vasquez was sixth in scoring at 26:32.5. Matt Baltimore was the fourth UTC runner in the top 10 placing ninth in a time of 26:59.7.
Kevin Huwe rounded out the scoring for the Mocs in 12th place with a time of 27:23.1. Blake Ketron was 21st with a time of 28:58.3 and Andy Highlander was right behind in 22nd place at 29:04.1.
Running unattached, Chris Berry was fourth overall with a time of 25:41.5 and Colton Popp was 25th overall at 28:45.9.
The Mocs took first with a score of 33 finishing ahead of South Alabama’s 52 points and Troy University’s 53. Birmingham Southern College was fourth overall with 99 points and North Alabama was fifth with 129 points.
Chattanooga will return to the Scenic City next week to host the annual Front Runner Invitational at the Moccasin Bend Race Course. The races are set to begin with the women’s 2-mile event at 3:30 p.m.
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