Logan Law's fifth place finish leads the way for Zags at Lakefront Invitational...
CHICAGO--The Gonzaga men's team ran to a seventh place finish, led by a fifth place individual finish by fourth year runner Logan Law (Paul Merca file photo), while their women's squad, led by a pair of first year runners, finished seventh at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational at the Sydney Marovitz Golf Course, hosted by Loyola University Friday morning.
The University of Washington men's squad, which ran an entirely different team from the squad that suited up at last week's John McNichols Invitational in Terre Haute, finished eleventh in the seventeen-team field.
MEN'S 8K RECAP...
Logan Law ran aggressively early, as did his teammates over the first three kilometers of the 8k race, as their five scorers were positioned in the top 30.
Meanwhile, Washington, which traveled only Parker Mong from the team that raced at the NCAA championship course the previous week, started off slow, as they were in twelfth at the 3k mark.
Law ran with the leaders for most of the race, finishing fifth in 22:55, as Tulane's Bernard Cheruiyot won in 22:38.
Behind Law for the Zags were Ryan Mitchell in 27th 23:21, and Dylan Rowell in 31st in 23:24.
Logan Schwartz was 41st in 23:30, and Dylan Weniger rounded out Gonzaga's scorers in 76th in 23:48. Gonzaga's 1-5 split was 53 seconds.
Washington's top finisher was Jonathan Podbielski, as the Canadian transfer from the University of Regina was 21st in 23:18. He was followed by Stanford transfer Zane Bergen in 42nd in 23:32.
True freshman Cohen Butler from Camas was the Huskies' third runner across in 51st in 23:36, while Cruize Corvin finished 64th in 23:43. Second year runner Owen Powell made his collegiate crosss country debut in 85th in 23:52.
Washington finished with a 1-5 split of 34 seconds.
Arizona won the team title by a 3-point margin over Michigan 85-88, with Minnesota third with 121.
"The team learned a lot today! They are excited to keep growing and progressing as we prepare to head to the biggest collegiate invitational of the year in two weeks at Nuttycombe" said Gonzaga head coach Pat Tyson.
Gonzaga was seventh with 177 points, while Washington, who was ranked 13th in the USTFCCCA Division I coaches' poll, was eleventh at 257.
WOMEN'S 6K RECAP...
First year runners Audrey Orme from Boise, and Sloan Dickson from Lynden led the charge for Gonzaga in the 6k race.
Orme was 15th in 19:49, while Dickson, who won the Clash of the Great Northwest season opener in Spokane Valley, was 22nd in 19:57.
Charlotte Dillon was 36th in 20:11, and the Taggi sisters closed out the Zags' five scorers, with Maria 58th in 20:26, and Emma 64th in 20:29.
Gonzaga finished with a 1-5 split of 40 seconds.
Mercy Chepkemoi of Arizona won the individual title in 19:03,
Number 20 Virginia won the team title with 71 points, while number 24 Minnesota finished second with 112 points, and number 12 Northwestern was third with 123 points.
Gonzaga was sixth with 192 points.
The Zags will return to Spokane to take on the Frank Knott Invite, hosted by Whitworth on October 3rd. Gonzaga and Washington will return to the Midwest to take on the Nuttycombe Invite on October 9th in Madison, Wisconsin.
Complete results of the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational are available here.
UW ALUM GIANNA WOODRUFF WINS 400 HURDLES AT SOUTH AMERICAN GAMES...
Thursday night, Washington alum Gianna Woodruff won the women's 400 hurdles at the South American Games in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Woodruff, who was seventh at the World Athletics Ultimate Championships two weeks ago, ran a meet record 54.11, to break the previous meet record of 56.05 set by Ximena Restrepo of Colombia.
Last Friday and Saturday, Washington alum Jami Schlueter, now competing for Nigeria, finished 15th in the Décastar decathlon competition in Talence, France, scoring 7577 points.
He started off by running 10.70 in the 100, then long jumped 23-9 (7.24m). In the shot put, he threw 39-4 (11.99m), then high jumped 6-3.25 (1.91m), before finishing day 1 by running 49.61 in the 400.
On day 2, he opened by running 14.00 in the 110 hurdles, then threw the discus 126-7 (38.59m). In the pole vault, Schlueter cleared 15-1.5 (4.61m), then threw the javelin 156-4 (47.65m). He finished off the competition by running 4:43.73 in the 1500.
Norway's Sander Skotheim won the meet, scoring 8630, 31 points ahead of Cal alum Hakim McMorris of the USA.
NOTE: World Athletics, the sports information office of Gonzaga and Washington, and the South American Games contributed to this report.
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