The NCAA West Regional for cross country will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, with the men's race beginning at 9 a.m. and the women's to follow at 10 a.m.
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Men's SCIAC Championship Recap
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges claimed a fifth straight SCIAC men's cross country championship on their home course early Saturday morning.The Sagehens, ranked 14th nationally, placed all five scorers among the Top 10 of the field to win by 19 points with a total of 29.that included new course record holder
Jack Stein.
Results
Stein led the race from start to finish en route to a finishing time of 24:33.5 that beat the previous record by just 1.5 seconds. After running with
Hayden Beauchemin of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges
and
Stian Asper from the University of Redlands for the first 15 minutes, the preseason favorite as 2024's highest returning finisher broke away to chase down the record and individual title.
CMS was runner-up with 49 points while the University of La Verne edged out Redlands, 100-109, for third place. Caltech came in fifth with 134 points, followed by Occidental College (154), Chapman University (180), Whittier College (251) and California Lutheran University (273).
Jack Elfenbaum represented Oxy in fourth place as the only other Top-10 finisher from a non-5C institution.
Women's SCIAC Championship Recap
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, ranked fourth in the nation, extended the conference's second-longest active title streak across all sports to 15 at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges early Saturday morning.
Results
Elle Marsyla capped a brilliant return from injury last year with an individual title, crossing the finish line in 21:39.21 just five seconds ahead of teammate
Riley Capuano.
Hope Dragseth made it a sweep of the top three with another trio of Athenas placing in fifth, sixth and eighth for a total of 17 points as CMS comprised the vast majority of the lead pack of five for the majority of the race.
The Sagehens finished as runner-up with 50 points while Occidental College was third with 104, followed by Chapman University in fourth (124), Caltech (143), California Lutheran University (169), the University of Redlands (191) and the University of La Verne (200).
Joya Terdiman placed fourth for the Sagehens and teammate
Eva Novy-Hildesley crossed in ninth. Chapman's
Brenda Daza finished in seventh and
Summer Gelman rounded out the Top-10 for Cal Lutheran.
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