Trailblazers Finish 7th at Elms Invitational
The MCLA Men and Women Cross Country teams kicked off the 2010 season today at the Elms Invitational, with both teams showing solid gains already on 2009.
CHICOPEE, Mass. – The MCLA Men and Women Cross Country teams kicked off the 2010 season today at the Elms Invitational, with both teams showing solid gains already on 2009.
The University of New England (UNE) had three runners finish in the top five in the women's race to help pace their respective teams to victory in Saturday afternoon's Blazers Invitational cross country event at Chicopee Memorial State Park.
In the women's 5-kilometer race, UNE scored a total of 25 points to capture first place honors, MCLA finished seventh with a 172 points, the women's race had sixteen teams competing.
AIC's MJ Ohoueu (Paris, France) secured top individual honors for the women running to a time of 19:50. MCLA's Xhirley Gonzalez was the top Trailblazer across the line finishing twenty-sixth overall in a time of 23:29. Haley Amenta was next for MCLA finishing twenty-eighth and Caitlin Culver was the third Trailblazer to finish, finishing thirtieth with a time of 24:05.
See MCLA Results Below and for complete race results visit
http://coolrunning.com/results/10/ma/Sep25_ElmsCo_set1.shtml (women)
ELMS COLLEGE WOMEN'S INVITATIONAL CROSS-COUNTRY RACE
Elms College, Chicopee, MA, September 25, 2010
WOMEN'S 5K RESULTS
Timing and Scoring by: ACCU-SPEC (413) 467-7354 http://accuspec.home.comcast.net
Place TmPl Name No. Yea School Time Pace
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1 1 MJ Ohoueu 12 Fr. American Interna 19:50 6:23
2 2 Colleen Ahern 140 Fr. University of Ne 19:58 6:26
3 3 Jess Partlow 156 Jr. University of Ne 20:28 6:36
4 4 Kellie Hackett 151 Fr. University of Ne 20:31 6:37
5 5 Sarah Beaudoin 8 Sr. American Interna 20:41 6:40
32 26 Xhirley Gonzalez 73 Sr. MCLA 23:29 7:34
34 28 Haley Amenta 69 So. MCLA 23:32 7:35
37 30 Caitlin Culver 71 Jr. MCLA 24:05 7:45
52 41 Jessica Smosky 77 Sr. MCLA 24:51 8:00
59 47 Kathryn Johnson 75 So. MCLA 25:10 8:06
67 53 Jessica Gamari 72 So. MCLA 25:58 8:22
77 60 Emily Johnson 74 Sr. MCLA 27:29 8:51
89 Abby Lindamood 76 Sr. MCLA 30:03 9:41
91 Rachel Wright 79 Sr. MCLA 30:16 9:45