It's the same old story: Western Washington again sweeps GNAC cross country champs...
MONMOUTH, Oregon-- No matter how you sliced it, the Western Washington men's and women's cross country teams (Thomas Lai/GNAC Sports photo) were going to find a way to win their fifth straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference titles Saturday morning at Ash Creek Preserve on the campus of Western Oregon University. With both teams winning their fifth straight conference crowns, the Western men inched closer to the all time conference record of seven straight titles set by Alaska Anchorage from 2010-16. The Viking women tied Alaska Anchorage for the most consecutive team titles with five, a streak that UAA accomplished from 2009-13. MEN'S RECAP... Jared Alderfer and George Fernandez, who have been the front runners for the tenth ranked Western Washington squad this season, found themselves up front through the first quarter of the 8-kilometer race, where there was a group of eighteen. Over the next two kilometers, the pack broke from eighteen to twelve, with five West...
