Western's Ella Edens wins final tuneup race before GNAC championships...
BELLINGHAM-- With a number of runners on the men's team sitting out Saturday's Western Washington University Padden Invitational , the Viking women took the team title, while the men finished second in the final regular season meet before the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship in two weeks. In the women's 6k race, Western, currently ranked number 21 in the USTFCCCA D2 poll, managed to put eight runners inside the top ten, led by Ella Edens (WWU Athletics photo) , who ran 20:55, 54 seconds ahead of Josephine Stevenson's 21:49. Cecilia Villagomez Edvalson was third in 21:56, followed by Danielle McLain in sixth in 22:10, and Kendall Carter in seventh in 22:11 to close out the Viking scorers. The Vikings had a 1-5 split of 1:16. Western's final team score in the four team meet involving Simon Fraser (52), Alaska Anchorage (71) and Trinity Western (97) was 19 points. In the men's 8k, the number 10 ranked Vikings had a tougher than expected battle...
