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Westmont Cross Country competed at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships on Saturday in Vancouver, Washington. The men’s team finished in twenty-fifth place in the 8,000 meter race with Jacob Goodin crossing the finish line first for the Warriors in a time of 26:30. Goodin scored 74 points and finished in ninty-fourth place.

Goodin was followed by Jake Jeanson (26:35, 107th place, 82 points), Sean Adams (26:58, 155th place, 115 points), Garrison Gourdeau (27:02, 164th place, 122 points) and Nathan Kemp (27:24, 196th place, 159 points).

“Our finish reflected what they were capable of today,” said Westmont Head Coach Russell Smelley. “Our men had a team split of 54 seconds, which was the best of the season.”

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Westmont Men’s Cross Country is the 2009 Golden State Athletic Conference Champion after winning the conference meet on Saturday in Fresno. The men finished with 64 points, 20 better than second place California Baptist to claim the title. Jacob Goodin placed second in the event in a time of 25:39.

The Warriors earn the GSAC’s automatic bid to the NAIA National Championship which will be held in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, November 21.

The women’s team finished the race in sixth place with Chrissa Trudelle earning a spot in the NAIA National Championship as an individual qualifier. Trudelle finished fifteenth with a time of 18:39.

“We all went out about 5:02 for the first mile,” said Goodin, describing the men’s 8.000 meter race. “The pack was tight. After two miles, I broke away on the hill and started chasing Anthony Pizzo of The Master’s who was in second place. Coach told me, ‘You are a hunter, go get him.’ I caught up to him, but so did the number one guy from Biola, the number two guy from APU and the number one guy from Cal Baptist. So it was the five of us running together.

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All in all, it was a bit of a disappointing day for Westmont Men’s and Women’s Cross Country at the Biola Invitational. The women’s team finished seventh of nine teams while the men came in fourth out of eleven.

“The men missed an opportunity to show they are definitively the best team in the conference,” said Westmont Head Coach Russell Smelley.

Eighth-ranked Cal State San Marcos won the men’s 8,000 meter race with 72 points while #17 Simon Fraser came in second with 77 points. California Baptist finished third with an even 100 points, nine points ahead of the Warriors who are also ranked at number 17.

The Westmont men finished ahead of six other Golden State Athletic Conference teams including Vanguard in fifth place (112 points) and Azusa Pacific in sixth (126 points).

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Westmont Men’s and Women’s Cross Country returned to strong competition with NCAA Div. I schools by competing in the Cal State Northridge Invitational on Friday afternoon.

The event was held in the wildlife, cricket and Japanese garden sections of Balboa Park Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area. Because temperatures soared into the 90s and conditions were dry, the men’s race was cut from 8,000 meters to 5,000 meters. The fast, well marked course was run on grass and dirt.

In the Women’s 5,000 meters, the Warriors finished third out of nine teams. Cal State Fullerton won the race with 53 points. The University of Southern California took second place with 61 points and Westmont tallied 120 points.

Teams finishing after Westmont included Cal State Northridge (fourth place, 121 points), UC Santa Barbara (fifth place, 138 points) and San Diego State (sixth place, 155 points).

Chrissa Trudelle placed fourteenth and was Westmont’s top finisher with a time of 18:41. Danica Rosendale took nineteenth place with a time of 18:56 and Caitlyn Corrao ran a time of 19:07 to claim twenty-sixth place. In twenty-eighth place was Kate Stuart (19:15) and finishing up the scoring for the Warriors was Katie Fritzke in fifty-fourth place (20:20).

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Westmont Men’s and Women’s Cross Country entered today’s Vanguard Invitational hoping to make an impact on the NAIA national rankings. On the men’s side, it appears to be ‘mission accomplished’ for the Warriors.

The Warrior men finished second overall and first among four-year schools, tallying 82 points. Orange Coast J.C. won the race with 65 points. Vanguard was third with 95 points and The Master’s finished fourth with 126 points. Point Loma Nazarene (149 points) took sixth place, while Concordia (156 points) tied for seventh with Loyola Marymount. Fresno Pacific scored 224 points to finish ninth.

As a result of the race, the Warriors, currently ranked at #23, should move ahead of #19 Vanguard when the new national ratings are released on Tuesday, October 14. That would make Westmont the top ranked team in the Golden State Athletic Conference.

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After competing in the hilly terrain and cool air of the Westmont Invitational a week ago, Westmont Men’s and Women’s Cross Country competed on the flat course and in the heat of the Cal State Bakersfield Invitational on Saturday. Not only were the conditions a contrast, but so was the competition as the Warriors battled with Division I schools.

In the women’s 5,000 meters, the Warriors placed three runners in the top 10 and took second place by scoring 48 points. Pepperdine won the event with 21 points while Cal State Bakersfield took third with 72 points. Fresno State finished last with 96 points.

Pepperdine’s Chelsea Wishard (17:45) and Lauren Lodge (17:54) finished first and second but Westmont freshman Danica Rosendale claimed third place with a time of 18:18. Junior Chrissa Trudell claimed eighth place for the Warriors in a time of 18:32 and while sophomore Kate Stuart finished tenth in 18:40. Sophomore Caitlyn Corraro (18:55) and junior Katie Fritzke (19:28) closed out the top five for the Warriors, finishing in twelfth and fifteenth place respectively.

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For the first time since 2006, the Westmont men and women’s cross country teams swept the Westmont Invitational on Saturday morning. As a result of construction of a new Track and Field/Soccer complex on the Westmont campus, the course was significantly altered from previous runnings of the Westmont Invitational, offering more of a vertical challenge to this year’s participants.

“It was a challenging course,” noted Westmont Head Coach Russell Smelley, “I’d say it was a hard, tough course because we had to add in going all the way up to upper campus for the first time in 25 years.”

The Westmont Invitational features not only four-year colleges, but running clubs and community college teams. Westmont men finished in first place with 48 points while Inside Track took second with 73 points. Notre Dame De Namur claimed third place with 88 points and the University of La Verne placed fourth with 101 points.

Josh Spiker of Inside Track finished first in the men’s 8,000 meter race in a time of 25:05, nearly a minute ahead of teammate and second place finisher Bobby Olivera (26:03). The first collegiate runners across the line were Westmont runners Jake Jeanson (26:22) and Nathan Kemp (26:25) who finished in third and fourth respectively. Unattached runner Jay Sorensen finished fifth place in 26:29 while Santa Barbara City College’s Mark Moreno took sixth place in a time of 26:30.