Sunday, October 16, 2016

Bears Run Well At Pre-Nationals & Santa Clara

Bears Run Well At Pre-Nationals & Santa Clara

Bears Run Well At Pre-Nationals & Santa Clara


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BERKELEY --- California's cross country teams performed at a pair of competitions on Saturday afternoon as the Golden Bears prepare for this month's Pac-12 Championships and next month's NCAA meets,

Cal sent groups of the NCAA Pre-National meet in Terre Haute, Ind. - home of the NCAA Championships - while keeping some Bears local to run in the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational.

Both men's and women's teams in Indiana finished in the top 10 of their fields, with the women taking 8th overall and the men finishing 10th. In Santa Clara, the men's group was 7th overall while he Bears only sent a three-woman contingent to race locally.

Juniors Bethan Knights and Nuria Tio Peig had the best performances among the quartet of Cal teams running on Saturday. Tio Peig took 7th overall in the Bronco Invitational's 6K run with a time of 20:47.2 while Knights came in 8th in the 6K at Pre-Nationals (20:21.0). Sophomore Leland Jones paced the Bears in Santa Clara's 8K with an 11th place mark of 24:11.6 and Robert Brandt made it to the Pre-Nationals finish line 25th in 24:27.8.

Pre-Nationals
MEN'S RESULTS (PLACE / ATHLETE / TIME / POINTS)
25 / Robert Brandt / 24:27.8 / 25
39 / Trent Brendel / 24:43.7 / 39
85 / Steve Correa / 25:10.3 / 84
89 / Garrett Corcoran / 25:13.4 / 88
96 / Kai Benedict / 25:16.1 / 95
169 / Takeshi Okada / 25:46.6 / 166
199 / Paul Zeiss / 25:59.5 / 196

WOMEN'S RESULTS (PLACE / ATHLETE / TIME / POINTS)
8 / Bethan Knights / 20:21.0 / 8
38 / Marissa Williams / 20:52.1 / 38
62 / Xochitl Navarrete / 21:06.5 / 62
103 / Georgia Bell / 21:30.6 / 103
119 / Megan Bordes / 21:37.2 / 119
162 / Skyler Flora / 21:54.3 / 162
226 / Marissa Dobry / 22:29.2 / 226

Santa Clara
MEN'S RESULTS (PLACE / ATHLETE / TIME / POINTS)
11 / Leland Jones / 24:11.6 / 11
19 / Cameron Tu / 24:29.2 / 19
23 / Max Leach / 24:32.2 / 23
50 / Eugene Hamilton III / 25:02.0 / 50
78 / John Hogan / 25:26.8 / 78
79 / Evan Malone-White / 25:32.0 / 79
115 / Josh Lewis / 26:41.9 / 115

WOMEN'S RESULTS (PLACE / ATHLETE / TIME / POINTS) 
7 / Nuria Tio Peig / 20:47.2 / 7
46 / Natalie Herberg / 21:42.7 / 46
146 / Jackie Chandler / 23:43.7 / 146
 
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