OWU’s Cross Country Teams Take on Conference: Highlights and Results

This past Saturday, October 31, the women's and men's cross country teams celebrated Halloween in typical distance runner fashion: with a competitive race!

The NCAC conference race was hosted this year by Oberlin College and featured an unusual cross-country course due to previous inclement weather. Rather than steep hills and winding trails through the woods, this course resembled a track, consisting of a repetitive mile-long loop through grass and gravel. The unique course conditions resulted in impressive

times and personal records across both teams.

Race Highlights and Results:

All-Conference runners (top 21): Sophie Cotts, Brianna Montgomery, Ella Chomic, Scarlett Loevenguth, Elsa Hoam, and Allison Dietz

Womens 6k and Mens 8k :

Final Results:

Our contributors to the final placing for the women's 6k race were:

4th place: Sophie Cotts (21:48.0), 6th place: Brianna Montgomery (21:57.5), 11th place: Ella Chomic (22:11.6), 12th place Scarlett Loevenguth (22:14.1), and 15th place Else Hoam (22:17.3).

With just a 49-second difference from the 1st runner to the 5th runner, these women ran an incredible race. Together, these runners scored a total of 48 points, putting our Battling Bishops in 2nd place out of 8 in the entire conference.

For the men's 8k race, the final contributors were:

32nd place: Jacob Blubaugh (26:36.9), 44th place: Tyler Stricker (26:52.6), 62nd place: Perry Jackson (27:42.1), 63rd place: Lucas Weaver (27:44.2), and Caleb Martin 71st place (28:13.1).

With a spread of 1 minute and 37 seconds, the men's team raced hard and together scored 209 points, placing them 8th out of 9 teams in the conference.

Although these teams both ran incredible races, the season is not over! Next up, these runners will toe the line once again on November 14th at the Regional Race! Go OWU!