Sept. 22, 2007

Lutes Finish Off Pace at Bear Fete Invitational

Men's Results
Women's Results

BROOKS, Ore. - Winning by comfortable margins, the Linfield men and the Whitman women captured the Wes Cook Bear Fete Invitational cross country races hosted by George Fox University Saturday morning here at Willamette Mission State Park.

In the men’s 8K race, Linfield scored 35 points, followed by George Fox with 65, Willamette University with 73, Whitman with 79, GFU Alumni with 122, Lewis & Clark College with 137, and Pacific Lutheran University with 177. Pacific University had individual runners but no team score.

The individual winner was Allen Wagner, running unattached, with a time of 25:26.10, followed 20 seconds later by Harrison Wilson of Linfield with a 25:46.20. The Wildcats took the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th spots for team scoring to easily out-distance the runner-up and host Bruins. Senior Kenneth Chilcoat was the top PLU finisher, placing 19th in a time of 26:57.7.

In the women’s 6K race, Whitman tallied 41 points, followed by Lewis & Clark with 82, George Fox with 91, Linfield with 92, Pacific Lutheran with 94, and Willamette with 108. Again, Pacific had individual runners but no team score.

Lewis & Clark took the top two individual spots, Amanda Phillips besting Tamma Carleton by over 27 seconds, 21:46.50 to 22:13.90. Whitman was consistent in taking the 4th, 5th, 7th, 11th, and 14th places to win the team title.

Corrine Gogert led PLU with a time of 23:36.1, followed by Mary Wuest, another freshman, 16th in a time of 23:52.1.

(Courtesy of George Fox Sports Information Office)