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THE LATEST RUNNING NEWS FROM ACROSS THE STATE, AND BEYOND. 03.31.08: ELLINGTON WINS COVENANT HEALTH KNOXVILLE MARATHON: Stewart Ellington defended his home turd in fine style in winning the men's overall title at the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon. The 33-year-old former UT runner averaged a 5:40-per-mile clip over the challenging course to win in a time of 2:28:36, fifty seconds clear of runner-up, Justin Gillette of Niles,MI. Gillette's wife, Melissa, though, won the women's overall title, clocking 3:02:52, finishing comfortably ahead of second placed Andee Cranford of Mount Juliet, who clocked a PR of 3:04:15. First male and female masters finishers were 40-year-old Eric Vandervort of Clinton and Knoxville's Kathy Wolski, 42, who clocked times of 2:46:11 and 3:07:31 respectively. [results] 03.16.08: HINE 4TH IN MILE AT NIKE INDOOR NATIONALS: White Station High senior, Virginia Hine, ran very well on Day 2 of the Nike Indoor Nationals High School meet in Landover,MD, placing 4th in the girls' 1 mile race. Hine, a Duke signee, clocked 4:58.37. In the boys' 2 miles, Brentwood High's Sean Keveren struggled with a pre-existing injury and could only manage 10th place in 9:29.08. Baylor's Bill Matthews (who actually hails from Alabama) ran well to win the second heat of the boys' 1 mile, clocking 4:20.13. [results] 03.16.08: KENYAN SWEEP AT GERMANTOWN HALF-MARATHON: A pair of Kenyan runners took the overall honors at the 10th annual Germantown Half-Marathon. Hillary Kogo, a recent graduate of Arkansas-Little Rock, and Janet Cherobon, who also ran collegiately in Arkansas, at Harding University, appeared top have little trouble winning their respective overall titles. Kogo, 28, clocked 1:10:25 to win by half a minute from Dewayne Miner of Alabama. Cherobon, 29, was far more dominant, winning by almost five minutes over Camille Herron of Indiana (1:19:16) and clocking a course record, 1:14:29. Both Kogo and Cherobon won $425 for their wins, while Cherobon won an extra $500 for smashing the course record by seven minutes. The first male and female masters finishers were Germantown's Mark Newman, 45, and Cordova's Kris Huff, 44, clocking 1:16:00 and 1:29:52 respectively. [results] 03.15.08: BUMBALOUGH 2ND IN 3,000 ON DAY 2 OF NCAA CHAMPS: Bumbalough, only a sophomore, ran a strong race and finished second in the 3000m with a time of 8:02.22, while Arizona State senior Kyle Alcorn triumphed in 8:00.82. In a race that started off in pedestrian fashion, Bumbalough clocked 2:27 for his final kilometer. [results | post-race interview, flocasts.org] 03.15.08: WILBER, xx WINNERS AT RAIN-SOAKED TOM KING CLASSIC HALF-MARATHON: Devin Wilber. The 5K race that preceeded the 'half' saw a far more competitive field assembled, with the first three male finishers all clocking under 16 minutes despite a wrong turn. [results] 03.14.08: BUMBALOUGH SCORCHES 3:56 DMR SPLIT ON FIRST DAY OF NCAA CHAMPS: One of three native Tennessean distance runners in action at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships held in Fayetteville,AR, Georgetown University's Andrew Bumbalough (who preppred at Brentwood Academy) scorched a 3:56.14 1600-meter split on the first day. His leg, by far the fastest in the race, took the Hoyas from 8th place to 5th. Bumbalough runs in the men's 3000m tomorrow (Saturday). In the women's 5000m, Arkansas junior, Denise Bargiachi, who hails from Memhis, narrowly missed her PR, clocking 16:25.79 in 10th place.. [results | live video | post-race interview with Bumbalough, flocasts.org] 03.08.08: BRYAN COLLEGE DUO, GOETZ & MOBLEY, EARN ALL-AMERICAN STATUS AT NAIA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: On the final day of the NAIA National Indoor Championships held in Johnson City, a pair of Bryan College runners earned All-American status with great performances. Chattanooga's Daniel Goetz ran very well to place 4th in the final of the Men's Mile. Goetz, a sophomore, clocked 4:14.92 in a race won by Azusa Pacific's Aaron Rono in a time of 4:09.46. Then, in the men's 800m final, Ooltewah's Zach Mobley, a redshirt freshman and a former decathlete, had a great run to place 2nd, clocking 1:54.72. [results] 03.02.08: BARGIACHI WINS SEC 5,000 TITLE: Memphian, Denise Bargiachi, a junior at Arkansas, won the first SEC individual title of her career, when holding off a Knoxville native, Yarrick Kincaid (a former Karns High stand-out), led the Tennessean charge on the men's side. The UT senior placed 4th on the men's 800m final, clocking a season's best time of 1:49.37, and followed that up with a 3:04.5 split on the UT Distance Medley Relay team that placed 4th. [results] 03.02.08: SMITH WINS AGE-GROUP AT BARCELONA MARATHON WITH IMPRESSIVE 3:17 CLOCKING: Sixty-seven year old Dallas Smith of Cookeville ran impressively at the Barcelona Marathon in Spain, winning the over-65 category. He finished in a time of 3:17:05, running negative splits of 1:38:49 and 1:38:16. [results | Dallas' splits] 03.02.08: ELLINGTON, PASTOREK WINNERS AT WHITESTONE 30K: Knoxville's Stewart Ellington and Jonesborough's Allison Pastorek were thw overall winners at the 7th annual Whitestone 30K, heldin in Kingston. Ellington, 33, averaged an impressive 5:33-per-mile clip to complete the 18.6-mile course in 1:44:17, five minutes up on runner-up and Runner's Market teammate, Bobby Holcombe. Pastorek held off a fast-closing Kathy Wolski to win the overall female title in 2:15:01 (7:15 pace). John Lawler and Woski claimed the masters titles, clocking times of 1:55:51 and 2:15:14 respectively. [results] 03.01.08: TEENAGERS DOMINATE INAUGURAL SCENIC CITY HALF-MARATHON: The Inaugural Scenic City Half Marathon and 5k was dominated by teenagers. The half marathon was won by 20 year old Josh Wheeler, of Boone, NC, in a time of 1 hour, 14 minutes, 56 seconds. Jan Gautier, 42, of Chattanooga, TN, was the half marathon female champion, covering the course in a time of 1 hour, 27 minutes, 48 seconds. The 5K champion was 18 year old Brian Mirrielees, of Fort Thomas, KY. Fourteen year old Catherine Ellise, of Lookout Mountain,GA, was the 5k female champion.William Warner, 54, of Ringold,GA, won the half marathon male masters division in a time of 1 hour, 22 minutes, 51 seconds. Madelyn Patton, 45, of Madison,AL, won the half marathon female masters division in a time of 1 hour, 38 minutes, 44 seconds.Jim Broyan, 55, of Ooltewah, won the 5k male masters division. Paula Cooper, 53, of Hixson, won the 5K female masters division. [results] 03.01.08: FRONT RUNNERS GET MORE (MILES) THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR AT RACE JUDICATA: Just over 500 runners enjoyed a gloriously sunny day, but a lack of competent course monitors caused some problems for the frontrunners in the Race Judicata 10K and 5K races held in Nashville's Percy Warner Park. In the 10K, the first two dozen runners ended up going off course and running closer to 10 miles than 10 kilometers. Spring Hill's Mitchell Jones and Devin Wilber of Murray,KY were leading the race, while Nashville's Tonya Lumphrey was leading the females when they went off course, leaving the door open for Wayne Flatt (43:02) and Lori Darnell (44:55) to nab overall victories amid the confusion. Clarksville's Chuck Jones and Mount Juliet's Andee Cranford were the overall winners of the 5K. Jones, despite being sent the wrong way by a course monitor mid-way through the race, won in 16:56, but not until after he was corrected by eventual second placer, Patrick Cooper. Jones had more than 100 meters to make up on Cooper, but reeled him in and then pulled away just after the 2-mile marker, clocking 16:56, while Cooper clocked 17:04. Andee Cranford clocked a very respectable 19:40 to win by over 40 seconds from runner-up, Lauren May. First male and female masters finishers were Murfreesboro's Eric Morrow and Brentwood's Susan Lambreth, clocking 18:54 and 24:13 respectively. [results: 10K | 5K] 02.24.08: BUMBALOUGH NOTCHES TWO SECOND PLACE FINISHES AT BIG EAST MEET: Brentwood's Andrew Bumbalough had a busy 24 hours at the Big 02.24.08: COOK SECOND IN 800 AT U.S. INDOOR NATIONALS, STAMPS TICKET FOR WORLDS : Knoxville's Nicole Cook (right) placed second in the 02.23.08: FAST PREP TIMES IN LEXINGTON: Several of Tennessee's top hgh school distance runners were in action at the University of Kentucky High School Invitational held at UK's Nutter Fieldhouse. Brentwood High runner Sean Keveren won the boys' 2 miles. Despite running all by himself the Virginia-bound senior narrowly missed the meet record, clocking 9:14.58, the 10th fastest time in the nation so far this year. Finishing third, Knoxville West junior, Matt Sonnenfeldt, shattered his PR with a 9:20.93 clocking. White Station's Virginia Hine (who will attend Duke in the fall) clocked 4:55.73 (#13 in the nation) in finishing 2nd in the girls' 1 mile to Alabama's Madeline Morgan as both runners eclipsed the previous meet record of 4:57.18. [results] 02.16.08: TENNESSEANS IN ACTION AT TYSON INVITATIONAL: Vanderbilt frosh, Rita Jorgensen, clocked an impresiive double at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville,AR to lead the Tennessean charge. The Memphian (who prepped at White Station) won her heat of the women's Mile (and clocked the third fastest time overall) with a 4:53.16 cocking, and then came back with a 2:12.61 in the 800m to place 2nd in her heat. Baylor's Renae Van Whye (Collierville) clocked 10:00.88 in 4th place in her heat of the women's 3000m. [results] 02.16.08: BAKSA WINS STRAWBERRY PLAINS HALF-MARATHON: Knoxville's Andy Baksa was the overall winner of the Strawberry Plains Half-Marathon, clocking 02.16.08: SHEKINAH EDGES JULIAN IN STRAWBERRY PLAINS 10K: Knoxville's Elijah Shekinah edged Runner's Market teammate, Daniel Julian, by one second to win the Strawberry Plains 10K, clocking a PR of 33:14. Taylor Poling won the women's race by a whopping 5-minute margin, clocking 38:35. First male and female mastres home were Greg Johnson, 49, and Rebecca Harris, 48, clocking 36:30 and 51:51 respectively. [results] 02.16.08: WINDERS WINS FROST BITE HALF-MARATHON: Forty-four year old Lance Winders of Mansfield clocked 1:16:02 to claim the overall title at the Frost BIte Half-Marathon held, for the first time, in Cedars of Lebanon State Park. Winders finished 74 seconds up on runner-up Patrick Cooper of Nashville. Mount Juliet's Andee Cranford won the women's overall title, clocking an impressive 1:26:55, while Theresa Peacock, 45, of Murfreesboro claimed the women's masters title, clocking 1:30:46. [results] 02.02.08: BUMBALOUGH GOES SUB-4 AT YALE: Brentwood's After being well paced through three very evenly paced quarters, 'Bumbi' unleashed a 57.5-second last 400 meters to shatter his PR and set a new meet and facility record. Following Bob Whelan some 16 years ago, Bumbi becomes just the second native Tennessean to break the 4-minute barrier. "I felt like it was definitely within my grasp." the former Brentwood Academy star said of the 4-minute barrier. "I looked up at the clock as I crossed the line with 200m to go, and it said 3:29 or so. I was pumped because i knew Istill had another gear." [results | interview soon] 02.02.08: KEVEREN BREAKS COURSE RECORD AT FANGTASTIC 5K: Brentwood's Sean Keveren (right) scorched the last mile of the Fangtastic 5K in 4:43 to comfortably win the overall title and also shave three seconds off Daniel Matena's course record, as 2,000 runners took part in the 5th annual event organized 01.26.08: LUKOWSKI WINS CALHOUN'S 10-MILER: Knoxville's Ben Lukowski, 24, won a close battle with former UT teammate, Andy Baksa, to win his first Calhoun's 10-miler title, clocking 52:02. Meanwhile, UT doctoral student, Taylor Poling, comfortable outpaved the women's field, clocking 1:05:25 to finish well clear of runner-up Andee Cranford of Morristown. The first male and female masters to finish were John Lawler and Marsha Morton, clocking 59:46 and 1:10:39 respectively. [results] 01.26.08: JONES, SASS WINNERS AT RACE ON THE TRACE: Clarksville's Chuck Jones and McKenzie's Kirsten Sass were the overall winners at the Race on The Trace 5-miler held at Natchez Trace State Park, near Henderson. Jones, 31, clocked 26:25 on the fast, net downhill course to finish some 44 seconds clear of 16-year-old Mark Cole of nearby McKenzie. But 28-year-old Kirsten Sass did manage to take an overall title back to McKenzie. She clocked 32:48 to easily outpace the other women. Lance Winders of Mansfield and Julie Johnson of Clarksville won the masters titles, clocking 27:51 and 36:12 respectively. [results] 01.19.08: BRZUCHALSKI & MORTON WINNERS AT NORRIS DAM CHALLENGE: Kingsport's Mark Brzuchalski and Marsha Morton of La Follette were the overall male and female victors at the Norris Dam Challenge 12K, held at Norris Dam State Park, near Lake City. Brzuchalski, a former Tennessee Tech runner, covered the 12-kilometer (7.5 miles) course in 43:49, finishing half a mile clear of his nearest competitor. Morton, 41, comfortably bested the women's field, clocking 52:41, while Rock Island's Tommy Kell picked up the male masters win with a 49:45 run. [results] 01.12.08: WINDERS, SASS FIRST HOME AT CHICKASAW CHASE 10-MILER: Mansfield's Lance Winders 57:57, while 28-year-old Kirsten Sass of McKenzie won the overall female title, clocking 1:10:04. Julie Johnson, 44, of Clarksville won the female masters titles, clocking 1:15:44. [results] 01.05.08: WINDERS, 44, EDGES COLE, 16, AT HILL 'N' DALE 8-MILER: Mansfield's Lance Winders just managed to hold off 16-year-old Mark Cole to win the overall male title at the Hill 'n' Dale 8-miler at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, as both runners clocked 46:36 over the challenging course. Joy Hohnson, 30, won the women's overall title, clocking 54:17, as Mary-Ellen Kelly won the masters title in a time of 57:47 [results] 01.01.08: OUT-OF-TOWNERS TAKE HONORS AT RESOLUTION RUN: Michigan's Brendan Robinson and Pennsylvania's Liz Haglund, both 24, took overall honors at the Resolution Run 5K held in downtown Nashville. Robinson, a former University of Portland runner, clocked 16:18 to easiy dispose of the men's field, while Liz Haglund (the wife of former Brentwood High stand-out and 2005 winner, J.B), a former Villanova trackster, easily outpaced the women clocking 18:54. First male and female masters home were 48-year-old Paul Scalisi and 55-year-old Victoria Crisp, clocking 17:58 and 20:51 respectively. [results] 12.31.07: TOWNSEND DEFENDS HOME TURF AT KAREN LAWRENCE 4-MILER: Signal Mountain's Oliver Townsend was impressive at the Karen Lawrence 4-miler in Chattanooga. The Dartmouth College junior, who was a stand-out for the Baylor School, was running the race for the first time in three years, but improved on his last finish by three places to win in 20:17. After a sluggish start which saw a large pack stay together, former UTC star Rodney Stoker, who now coaches Bryan College's runners, strung things out on a downhill section approaching the first mile marker. "That's when the race started," Townsend told TR. Georgia-based Kenyan, Joseph Sitienei, then assumed the lead with Townsend shadowing. "I just hung right on his shoulder and we dropped everybody else," Townsend said. "I surged at the start of the second lap, and then it was just me trying to keep the lead. I felt good, I think I coulda run the last mile a little faster but my coach wanted me to treat it as a tempo, and I had already run faster than i was supposed to. Sitienei clocked 20:20, holding off fast-closing Ooltewah (and Bryan College) runner, Zach Mobley. Former Morristown West runner Tara Gietema, 18, who now runs for UT-Chattanooga, led the women home, clocking 25:12, 70 seconds clear of runner-up and masters winner, Cathy Cheeseman of Nashville. Soddy Daisy's Joe Sneed led the male masters home, clocking 23:18. [results] 12.08.07: KROEGER 2ND AT FOOT LOCKER NATIONALS: Franklin's Kathy Krroeger capped a remarkable comeback season with a 2nd place finish at the Foot Locker National High School Cross-Country Championships in San Diego,CA. Kroeger, 16, a junior at Independence High School, won the national title last year, but missed the following track season, and then sustained a stress fracture during the summer. [results | video] 12.07.07: MATENA, PAUL WINNERS AT RUDOLPH RED NOSE RUN: An Australian and a South African took overall honors at the 27th annual Rudolph Red Nose Run held in downtown Nashville. [results] 12.01.07: ETHIOPIAN SWEEP AT ST JUDE MEMPHIS MARATHONOAK RIDGE BOYS AT NIKE TEAM NATIONALSre from New York City for the St. Jude Memphis Marathon, she bought a ticket for Genna Tufa, as well. "I told him, 'We have to run this race,'" Ketema recalled. "She decided for me," Tufa grinned. "She said we just have to bring home the $10,000. And now we will." On Saturday morning, with some 11,000 runners and walkers taking part in the marathon, half-marathon and Memphis Grizzlies H 12.01.07: ETHIOPIAN SWEEP AT ST JUDE MEMPHIS MARATHON: When Atalelech Ketema purchased her airfare from New York City for the St. Jude Memphis Marathon, she bought a ticket for Genna Tufa, as well. "I told him, 'We have to run this race,'" Ketema recalled. "She decided for me," Tufa grinned. "She said we just have to bring home the $10,000. And now we will." On Saturday morning, with some 11,000 runners and walkers taking part in the marathon, half-marathon and Memphis Grizzlies House 5K, Tufa and Ketema each took home a winner's check for $5,000 after impressive first-place finishes in the main event. Tufa was the overall marathon winner, finishing the 26.2-mile course in a swift 2:17:38, nearly six minutes ahead of last year's winning time. It was Tufa's fourth marathon win this year, following victories in the Quad Cities, Tampa and Virginia Beach. Tufa, 23, crossed the line 39 seconds ahead of runner-up Wilson Chepkwony of Chapel Hill, N.C. Gurmessa Megerssa of New York City was third in 2:18:17."I'm surprised," said Tufa, who took the lead for the first time in the final mile. "It's a difficult race, so I am feeling pride." Running in just her second competitive marathon, the 24-year-old Ketema was the first female runner to reach the finish, cruising into AutoZone Park in 2:43:44. That was just ahead of runner-up Camille Herron (2:43:52) of Lafayette, IN."Before I came here, I pray and wrote down, 'I ran first place today.' After races I normally write the note. Today I wrote it before," Ketema said. "The first half of the race, I just ran easy. After the half marathon I was feeling good." On a picture-perfect day for running, Brendan Minihan Jr. of New Orleans,LA and Natacha Whetstone of Clarksville came home first in the half-marathon. Minihan, 32, won the men's event in 1:10:05. Whetstone, 34, was the top female finisher with a time of 1:14:05. In the Grizzlies 5K, 27-year-old Brian Lyons of St. Louis,MO won the men's race in 14:08, while 30-year-old Emily Ryan of Brentwood took home the women's title in 20:54. 12.01.07: OAK RIDGE BOYS 18TH AT NIKE TEAM NATIONALS: Led by MacLean O'Donnell's ninth place finish in 16:29, Oak Ridge High School's boys placed a very respectable 18th at the Nike Team Nationals Cross-Country meet in Portland, OR. Led by race winner, Chris Derrick, who clocked 15:40 over the very tough Portland Meadows 5K course, Naperville (IL) edged Los Alamos (NM) 125-127 for the team title. [results] 11.24.07: KROEGER WINS FOOT LOCKER SOUTH RACE IN EXCITING FINISH: Franklin's Kathy Kroeger continued her fine recent form, after battling her way back from a summer stress fracture, by winning the girls' seeded race at the Kroeger (right), the three-time Tennessee 3A champion, became the first girl from Tennessee to win since the first year of the meet in 1979, when Ginger Sullivan of Harpeth Hall won. Kroeger also qualified for the third straight year. "I just wanted top 10," Kroeger said. "That was my goal. All I wanted to do was qualify. I was just going as fast as I could, because it was just a little bit left. I knew they were a little bit behind me. I was kind of surprised, with about 10 yards to go, when Kayla Hale came up. I just sprinted as fast as I could and I barely nipped her at the tape." In the boys' seeded race, Brentwood's Sean Keveren had a disappointing showing. Expected to be a shoe-in for a top 10 placing and a Nationals berth, Keveren despite getting out too slow in the first half-mile, got up as high as 13th place at halfway, but then the hip flexor injury that has hampered his training for the last month slowed him on each side of the course's only hill, and he struggled home in a disappoiting 17th place, clocking 15:24. [results] 11.22.07: OAK RIDGE BOYS SOUTHEAST REGION TITLE, STAMP THEIR 11.22.07: GILDEA ROCKS AUTUMNFEST, LEADS EBS TO TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP: Patrick Gildea what was one of the finest fields ever assembled at the Autumnfest 8K eating his dust as he shattered the course , clocking 23:41 (a 4:46-per-mile clip). Gildea, 27, a former UT stand-out, won by 53 seconds over Brent Ferrell, who was visiting from Chapel Hill,NC. Such was the quality of the men's field that the top five finishers all ran under 35 minutes, and the winning time of 26:09 in Nashville's big Thanksgiving race - the Boulevard Bolt - would not have paced in the top ten at Autumnfest. Among the women, Leah Moore-Thomas, who prepped at Oak Ridge High but now lives in Geoirgia, won her third straight title, clocking 30:26, with trail running specialist Patricia Smith of Maryville finishinh second in 30:49. First male and female masters finishers were Allen Etheridge, 41, of Oak Ridge and Trish Mitchell, 48, who clocked very impressive times of 26:04 and 31:54 respectively. [results] 11.22.07: OUT OF TOWNERS SWEEP BOLT TITLES: With several notable absentees among Nashville's faster runners, including both of last year's winners, two out of town visitors - one from Maryland and one from Kentucky - had little trouble running away with the overall titles at the 14th annual Boulevard Bolt 5-miler in Nashville. Randy McDermott of Bethesda,MD, in town to visit his parents, ran with eventual runner-up, Jake Rainey of Clarksville, before pulling away in the last mile for a 22-second victory, clocking 26:09. Rainey's 26:31 is particularly impressive, considering he is just 15 years old. Bonita Paul of Bowling Green,KY had little trouble with a women's field. The 26-year-old former Western Kentucky stand-out clocked 30:23 to comfortably outpace runner-up Whitni Wonderlin of Brentwood, who clocked 31:30. First male and female masters finishers were Murfreesboro's Phil Young, 45, and Nashville's Victoria Crisp, 55, who clocked times of 29:08 and 32:30 respectively. [results] 11.19.07: BUMBALOUGH 22ND AT NCAA DIV.I CHAMPIONSHIPS: Brentwood's Andrew Bumbalough ran oustandingly at the NCAA DIv.I National Cross-Country Championships in Terre Bumbalough (right) placed 22nd and covering the 10K course in 30:19. An 8-time state champion while at Brentwood Academy, the Georgetown sophomore was in around 40th place at halfway (15:13)and gradually moved up the field to garner All-American status in his first appearance at cross-country's 'big dance'. Liberty senior, Josh MacDougal won the race, clocking 29:22, as Oregon, led by runner-up Galen Rupp (29:23), won the team competition in emphatic fashion, 28 points clear of 2nd place Iona. In the women's race, Belmont senior Lauren Weaver, a Nashville native, also ran impressively, placing 45th and covering the 6K course in 21:08, by far the best showing by a Tennessean woman. Memphis' Denise Bargiachi, running for Arkansas, was a disappointing 128th, Brentwood's Jill Skinner (a junior at Georgia) finished 176th, Collierville's Renae Van Wyhe (Baylor) placed 190th, and Nashville's Morgan Stengel (UNC) placed 226th. Strong pre-race favorite, Ally Kipyego of Texas Tech, won easily, clocking 19:31, while Stanford won the team title. [results | photos soon] 11.17.07: ENGLE EVADES AIRBORNE PRIMATES TO SHATTER COURSE RECORD AT HARPETH HILLS FLYING MONKEY MARATHON: Thirty-six year old Chuck Engle conquered the hills of Percy Warner Park and dealt with the looming threat of airborne primates at the 2nd annual Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey. Engle, who lives in Columbus,OH, clocked an impressive 2:45:35 over the course, which has well over 3 million feet of elevation change! Last year's winner, Nashville's Jeff Edmonds finished second, clocking 2:58:17. The first female finisher was 39-year-old Michelle Didion of LaPorte,IN, who clocked 3:20:13, some nineteen minutes celaer of runner-up, Emily Ryan of Brentwood, who finished in 3:39:55. First male and female masters home were Steve Bremner, 52, of Manitou Springs,CO, and 46-year-old Tanya Savory of Nashville, who clocked times of 3:21:18 and 3:44:19 respectively. [results] 11.17.07: EX-BRUIN, KIM PARTEE, HELPS AMHERST TO TEAM WIN AT NCAA DIV.III CHAMPSIONSHIPS: Former Brentwood High runner, Kim Partee, ran well at the NCAA Division III National 11.17.07: ALL-AMERICANS, TALBERT & MARTIN, LEADS TENNESSEANS AT NAIA CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS: Tennessee was well represented at the NAIA National Cross-Country Championships held in Kenosha,WI. In the women's race, Mount Carmel's Jacklyn Talbert, a product of Volunteer High and a junior at Milligan College (in Johnson City) place 28th overall in the 268-runner field, clocking 18:24, as Azusa Pacific's Jamie Canterbury won, clocking 17:11. Led by Erin's Douglas Martin led the Tennessean charge in the men's race. Martin, a senior at Union University in Jackson, placed 23rd in the 258-runner field, clocking 25:22 over the 8K course. Azusa Pacific's Aaron Rono romped home to a 40-second win, clocking 23:52, while Martin's teammate, Henry Rop placed 5th. helping Union to an impressive 8th place in the team competition as pre-race favorites Malone (OH) won. Bryan College (located in Dayton, TN), led by Chattanooga's Daniel Goetz in 90th (26:10) ran disappointingly, placing 27th of the 28 teams. [results: women | men] 11.17.07: BAKSA CONTINUES RETURN TO FORM WITH WIN AT BAPTIST TURKEY TROT: Knoxville's Andy Baksa continued his return to form with an easy victory at the Baptist Turkey Trot 5K. The former Farragut High and University of Tennessee stand-out clocked 15:28, comfortably outrunning runner-up Bobby Holcombe, who clocked 15:55. Another former UT star, Jasmin Keller, won the women's race, clocking a season's best of 18:19 to finish thirteen seconds up on Taylor Poling, as Runner's Market took the top three male and female finishing positions. First male and female masters home were Clinton's Eric Vandevorrt and La Follette's Marsha Morton, clocking 16:38 and 19:51. [results] 11.17.07: MILNER, PAUL WINNERS AT GUPTON JEEP 4-MILER: Nashville's Dave Milner and Bowlilng Green's Bonita Paul were the overall male and female 11.11.07: PLATT & FLAUTE OVERALL WINNERS AT BUDDY'S RACE: Former UT tracksters, Chris Platt and Katie Flaute, were the overall winners of the Buddy's Race Against Cancer held in Knoxville. Platt kicked away from Nashville's Daniel Matena in the last quarter-mile after the two had run practically stride for stride for the entire race. Platt, a New Jersey native, won in 15:14, six seconds up on Matena. Flaute won the women's race in 18:11, finishing thirteen seconds up on the fast-improving Taylor Poling, who clocked a PR of 18:24. [results] 11.10.07: WILBER ROMPS HOME TO IRISH PRIDE 5K WIN: Former Murray State University trackster, Devin Wilber was a comfortable victor of the Irish Pride 5K in Nashville. The 27-year-old Clarksville runner clocked 15:50 to win by 39 seconds over Lucas Massey. Sixteen-year-old Courtney Rymer was the first female finisher, clocking 20:27. The first male and female masters home were Brentwood's Paul Scalisi, 47, and Joelton's Suzanne Hale, 41, clocking times of 17:18 and 21:17 respectively. [results] 11.10.07: HUGH ENICKS, 48, WINS CHICKAMAUGA BATTLEFIELD MARATHON: The Chickamuaga Battlefield Marathon, 10 Mile Race and Junior Marathon included the largest turn out in recent memory, with 482 runners participating in the marathon, 411 participating in the 10 mile race, and 136 children taking part in Junior Marathon. Hugh Enicks, of Signal Mountain, won the marathon in a time of 2:44:40. Kerry Oedel, 43, of Macon,GA, was the female champion, covering the course in a time of 3:13:57. Joe Bowman, of Dunwoody,GA, won the marathon male masters division. Lynn Mooney, of Marietta,GA, won the marathon female masters division. The 10 mile race was won by Patrick Hall, of Chattanooga, TN, in a time of 56:05. Kelley Lowe-Colenbaugh, of Kennesaw,GA, was the female champion, finishing in a time of 1:07:53. [results (PDF)] 11.10.07: BARGIACHI 3RD IN NCAA SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL TITLE: Arkansas junior, Denise Bargiachi, a native of Memphis, placed third at the NCAA Division I South Central Regional Championships in Fayetteville,AR. Bargiachi clocked 20:48 over the 6-kilometer course to finish fourteen seconds adrift of winner Silje Fjortof of SMU, as an in-form Rice quintet, tallying just 54 points, beat Arkansas into second place. Fellow Memphian, Renae Van Wyhe, a sophomore at Baylor, ran #5 for the Bears, who finished third. Van Wyhe just managed to earn All-Region status, clocking 21:50 in 25th place. [results: women | men] 11.10.07: ... AT NCAA SOUTHEAST REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS: North Carolina junior Morgan Stengel, who prepped at Harpeth Hall, finished 55th in 21:45 (#5 for UNC), helping the Tarheels to a 3rd place finish. [results: women | men] 11.10.07: BUMBALOUGH 3RD AT NCAA MID-ATLANTIC REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS: Georgetown junior Andrew Bumbalough cruised to a 3rd place finish, clocking 30:24, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships held in Bethlehem,PA. Georgetown comfortably won the team title but couldn't stop Villanova's Bobby Curtis from winning the individual title in 30:08. [results] 11.10.07: WEAVER STAMPS TICKET FOR NATIONALS , BELMONT MEN 4TH AT NCAA SOUTH REGION CHAMPIONSHIPS: Fifth-year senior Lauren Weaver has accomplished one of her life-long goals of advancing to Nationals via a fifth overall finish in the NCAA South Regional today. Belmont junior, Colin Magut finished 13th, for the men, which probably is good enough for him to advance to Nationals as well (since Florida will likely receive an at large berth for Nationals). [results] 11.10.07: MILL HOUSE 15K: EBS dominated the field at Mill House 15K today in men and women. The men's side saw EBS take the top 5 spots with Sammy Nyamongo leading the way 48:01, closely folowed by Jeff Day 48:13 and Sturat Moran 48:30. The first masters was EBS' Brian Depew 55:08. On the women's side, new EBS member Amanda Tate ran a 59:25, followed by Allison Pastorek with 1:01:49. Female masters was also a new addition to EBS' team, Marsha Morton 1:05:14. This victory for the men's EBS Team Racing ties us with Runner's Market with one race left to go ....Autumnfest 8K. 11.03.07: HORTON REPRESENTS TENNESSEE WELL AT TRAGEDY-FILLED OLYMPIC TRIALS MARATHON: All the chatter about the resurgence of American distance running came to fruition in powerful fashion Saturday, with Ryan Hall leading Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell onto the 2008 Olympic Team. Competing a Tennessee's sole representative at the 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon Alan Horton (right) ran very well, clocking 2:22:03, just six seconds off his PR set 13 months agpo in Chicago. Of the 134 starters, 27-year-old Horton was ranked #121 going in. He finished 49th, gradually moving up the field after a 1:11:30 first half. Shortly after the conclusion of the race, officials confirmed that 5-time USA road champion Ryan Shay, who collapsed shortly after the 5-mile mark, had died. "We all are devastated over Ryan's death," said USATF CEO Craig Masback. "He was a tremendous champion who was here today to pursue his dreams. The Olympic Trials is traditionally a day of celebration, but we are heartbroken. Our thoughts and prayers are with Ryan's wife, Alicia, and all of his family. His death is a tremendous loss for the sport and the long-distance running community." [results] 10.27.07: WEAVER WINS, LANGDON LEADS BRUIN MEN TO SIXTH STRAIGHT ATLANTIC SUN TITLE: Coach Jeff Langdon led Belmont University's men's cross-country Belmont’s dominance in A-Sun women’s cross country continued on Saturday as the Bruins won the league title for the sixth time in seven years. The Bruins placed three in the top 10 in defeating their closest competitor, Kennesaw State, by 30 points at the Vaughn’s Creek Cross Country Course. Lipscomb University placed 6th with ETSU 10th in the 12-team field. Belmont senior Lauren Weaver took control of the race early and ran away from the field, finishing in a time of 17:51. The 2006 runner-up became the first Belmont woman to win the individual A-Sun championship. The Nashville native (and graduate of David Lipscomb High School) used her years of experience on the course to her benefit to win at her final A-Sun Championship.“This is my 12th season actually running on this course, so it was fun to kind of send it out with a bang,” Weaver said. “I’m not going to miss the sideways hill and the stretch along highway 100.” Over 1,000 spectators came out for the morning race and lined the course throughout. [results: women | men] 10.27.07: BUMBALOUGH 5TH AT BIG EAST X-C CHAMPIONSHIP: Andrew Bumbalough placed a very respectable 5th in the men's race at the Big East Conference Championships, held in Louisville,KY. Villanova's Bobby Curtis, a Louisville native, romped home to a 10-second win over pre-race favorite Wesley Korir of University of Louisville. The Cardinals placed four runners in the top 10 and a fifth at 29th, to total 55 points. The Georgetown men came in a close second at 60 points. The Hoyas had three runners finish in the top 10. [results] 10.27.07: BARGIACHI 6TH AT SEC X-C CHAMPIONSHIPS: University of Arkansas junior, Denise Bargiachi (right), a Memphis native and a product of St Benedict, In the men's race, also dominated by Arkansas, the top Tennessean finisher was UT junior Andrew Press in 13th in 24:42, who was followed just three spots back by his formwr Webb School teammate and fellow UT Vol, Denton Jones. 800-meter man Yarrick Kincaid (a former Karns High runner) showed good strength to clock 25:32 in 39th place. Arkansas tallied just 36 points to win, with Tennessee placing 4th and Vanderbilt bringing up the rear in 10th. [results: women | men] 10.27.07: JONES, OAKES OVERALL WINNERS AT JACK O' LANTERN 5K: Spring Hill's Mitchell Jones and Nashville's Mandy Oakes were the overall winners of the Jack O' Lantern 5K held in Franklin's Pinkerton Park. Jones clocked 16:17 to finidh 49 seconds up on Jacob Carrigan, while Oakes, 33, clocked 20:01, finishing 17 seconds ahead of runner-up, 55-year-old Victoria Crisp. Meanwhile, 50-year-old John Lovell of Brentwood took the male masters title in 18:02. [results] 10.25.07: COLLIERVILLE GIRLS JUST PREVENT HOUSTON SWEEP AT REGION 8 AAA MEET: Houston High's Mustangs were just one point shy of a sweep of the Region 8 team titles at Shelby Farms. The boys, led by Paul Hill in 2nd place, won in convincing fashion, tallying just 30 points, as Kyle McLarty of Collierville finished first in 16:26. White Station edged Collierville 50-55 to get the runners-up spot. In the girls' race, won by White Station's Virginia Hine in 18:42, Collierville edged Houston by a single point, 40-41, with Hine's Spartan quartet just a further three points adrift. [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: OAK RIDGE SWEEPS REGION 7 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence High junio [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: BRENTWOOD SWEEP REGION 6 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence 10.25.07: OAK RIDGE SWEEPS REGION 3 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence High junio [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: OAK RIDGE SWEEPS REGION 3 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence High junio [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: OAK RIDGE SWEEPS REGION 3 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence High junio [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: OAK RIDGE SWEEPS REGION 2 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, Brentwood High's Bruins swept the Region 6 AAA team titles. Behind Independence High junio [results: girls | boys] 10.25.07: SCIENCE HILL GIRLS, MO' WEST BOYS WIN REGION 1 AAA TITLES: As they did last year, As expected, Allie Scalf led Science Hill to the girls' Region 1 AAA team title, clocking 19:24 to win in Gray. The Hilltoppers scored just 31, well clear od Dobyns-Bennett and Daniel Boone, the other two state qualifying teams. In the boys' race, some tight packing by Morristown West yielded an impressive team win, tallying 56 points, eight clear of Science Hill, as Dobyns-Bennett, led by race winner Josh Vasquez (16:49), nabbed third. [results: girls | boys] 10.20.07: GILDEA, CHEROBON WINNERS AT COMDATA BRENTWOOD 10K: Knoxville's Patrick Gildea and Georgia-based Kenyan, Janet Cherobon, were 10.16.07: SEAN KEVEREN INTERVIEWED BY FLOCASTS: Flocasts comes to Brentwood High School to watch the state's top male high school runner, Sean Keveren. Keveren does a gruelling workout on the track and then provides a post-workout interview. [workout | interview, flocasts.org] 10.13.07: THOMPSON 12TH WOMAN AT BALTIMORE MARATHON: Clarksville's Meredith Thompson ran impressively at the Baltimore Marathon, placing 12th female overall (and 4th in her age group) in a time of 3:08:39, and was the first Tennessean finisher. Thompson, 29, negative splitted the race after a 1:35:17 first half. The women's winner was Kenya's Gladys Asiba, who clocked 2:36:27. [results] 10.13.07: KEVEREN, KROEGER Independence junior, Kathy Kroeger, the 2006 Foot Locker National Champion, continued her comeback after a long lay off, and was impressive at Spain Park with a second place finish in the girls' Race of Champions, behind pre-race favorite Ashley Brasovan of Florida. Brasovan beat Kroeger's course record set last year with a blazing 17:05, while in the team competition, Oak Ridge (ranked #7 in the southeast) earned an impressive 2nd place behind #2 Mountain Brook (AL). Two races earlier, in the boys' Race of Champions, Brentwood High senior Sean Keveren pulled away from a tough-hanging pack at 4k and run to a 15:37 victory, nipping Ben Hubers’ CR by a second. Unlike the girls race, the pace was a relatively mellow 5:00 at the mile, as Keveren had plenty of company. He gradually asserted himself and had control by 2M (10:04), but Crested Butte Academy’s Joe Bosshard was staying just behind and a small chase pack was still within striking distance. Keveren pushed “Rig Hill” at 4K, though, and built a 20-meter. Knoxvilel Wests' Matthew Sonnenfeldt had a great race, and held off Bill Matthews of Baylor to get 2nd in 15:44. Oak Ridge (ranked #8 in the Southeast) used a consistent effort across the board to tally just 101 points and win by 35. They toppled SE#3 Baylor, who totalled 136 in second. [results] 10.13.07: KIMMONS CLASS OF FIELD AT GERMANTOWN OKTOBERFEST 5K: Keith Kimmons was in a class all by himself at the Oktoberfest 5K held in Nashville's historic Germantown neighborhood. Kimmons, a former UT runner, clocked 15:13 over the challenging course to win by over 2 minutes from Jacob Carrigan. Jessica Moran won a hotly contested women's race in 18:56, four seconds up on Paige Biglin, who, in turn, was one second up on Anne Marshall. First male and female masters home were Timothy O'Leary of Antioch and Murfreesboro's Theresa Peacock, clocking times of 18:16 and 19:27 respectively. [results] 10.07.07: ELLINGTON LEADS TENNESSEANS AT TWIN CITIES MARATHON: Knoxville's Stewart Ellington led a 20-strong contingent of Tennesseans at the Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis-St Paul,MN. Ellington, 33, fell well short of his goal of qualifying for the Olympic Trials, but ran well in the oppressive heat. He still, however, clocked 2:31:14 (a 5:47 clip) in very tough conditions to place 15th overall. Sevierville's Tere Stouffer, who was also aiming for a Trails qualifier dropped out. [results] 10.07.07: CHASE WINS TRI CITIES RACE FOR THE CURE: Amanda Chase of Asheville,NC was a convincing winner of the Tri Cities Race for the Cure held in Kingsport. Chase, 26, who recently moved from Bristol,VA, clocked 18:34 to win by over 90 seconds from Jonesborough's Allison Pastorek and collect a free round trip ticket on Southwest Airlines. Karen Seiferth, 49, of Johnson City was the first female master home, clocking 21:27. Among the men, Pastorek's husband, Steve, was swiftest, clocking 17:14, while the first male master home was Ashveille's Randy Ashley, clocking 17:48. [results] 10.06.07: KEVEREN CONTINUES WINNING WAYS AT MEMPHIS TWILIGHT CLASSIC: On a hot and humid night, Brentwood High's Sean Keveren continued his unbeaten streak at the Memphis Twiligt Cross-Country Classic, clocking 15:13 on the speedy 5K layout at Mike Rose Soccer Complex to hit the finish line of the Varsity Boys' race some 25 seconds clear of runner-up, Matt Sonnenfeldt, a junior at Knoxville West. Daviess County (KY) won the team competition, with Houston leading the Tennessee teams in 4th place. In the girls' race, Katlyn Will of Corinth (MS) won in 17:54, with St Agnes 9th grader Kacey Norbert runnng very well to finish 2nd in 18:17. Pre-race favorite, Virginia Hine of White Station, dropped out shortly after the completion of the first mile with an ankle injury. Sacred Heart Academy (KY) won the team trophy, with St Agnes Academy leading the Tennessee teams in 4th. [results] 10.06.07: MILNER WINS MUSIC CITY HALF-MARATHON: TR editor Dave Milner was the overall winner at the Music City Half-Marathon, held in Nashville. Withn the absence of Nashville's usual front of the pack regulars, Milner cruised to a comfortable victory in 1:23:59, while Amy Cole, visiting from Walkill,NY was the first female finisher in 1:35:50. First male and female masters home were Mark Wood, 44, of Pleasant Grove,AL, and Beth Rice, 44, of Knoxville, clocking times of 1:32:16 and 1:47:26 respectively. [results] 10.06.07: KIPKOECH, ALLEN WINNERS AT NFS APPLE FEST 4-MILER: Georgia-based Kenyan, Daniel Kipoech, and Kingsport's Molly Allen were the overallwinners at the NFS Apple Fest 4-miler in Erwin. Kipkoech, 20, held off a stern challenge from his room mate, Joseph Ngetich, with only Zap Fitness duo, Jon Pierce and Ryan Warrenburg able to prevent a Kenyan sweep of the top five places. Kipkoech clocked 18:40 to win by four seconds. Leading the women, a nice tussle developed between local favorite, Allen, and Knoxville's Taylor Poling. Thirty-six year old Allen prevailed, winning in 24:31, ten seconds up on Poling. First male and female masters home were Kingsport's Terry Ketron and Johnson City's Karen Sieferth, clocking 23:21 and 27:49 respectively. [results] 10.02.07: NEW ARTICLE::: IS A SUB-2 MARATHON POSSIBLE?: Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie just slashed 29 seconds from Kenyan Paul Tergat's 4-year-old world marathon record. Gebrselassie, whom we may now impute is the greatest distance runner in history, clocked 2 hours 4 minutes and 26 seconds. That's about 4:45 and change per mile, or around 71 seconds per 400 meters. Amazing. Every time the marathon world record is lowered, which is not a common occurrence (11 times in the last 40 years), speculation seems to increase regarding the possibility of a sub-2 hour marathon.Is a sub-2 hour marathon possible? Without performance enhancing drugs, I mean. [more] 09.29.07: BUMBALOUGH NOTCHES FIRST COLLEGIATE CROSS-COUNTRY WIN: Georgetown University Red-shirt sophomore Andrew Bumbalough (of Brentwood) picked up his first collegiate individual cross country title on Saturday, Bumbalough and the Hoyas are off for two weeks, before returning to competition on October 13 for the Pre-Nationals meet in Terre Haute, IN. The Lady Commodores will split squads again when they return to action on the same day. One squad will run in Fayetteville, AR., at the Arkansas-Chile Pepper, while another squad will travel to Chattanooga to participate in a race hosted by UTC. [results: women | men] 09.29.07: PRESS LEADS VOLS AT GREATER LOUISVILLE CLASSIC: Knoxville's Andrew Press led the UT men's harriers at the Greater Louisville Classic at Tom Sawyer State Park. Press, who prepped at Webb and transfered from William & Mary, clocked 24:27 over the 09.29.07: BARGIACHI 15TH, #3 FOR LADY HOGS AT BILL DELLINGER X-C INVITATIONAL: Memphis' Denise Bargiachi headed to Regon with the University of Arkansas team and ran very well to place 15th in a loaded race. Bargiachi clocked 20:52 over the 6K course. Franklin's Whitni Wonderlin was the next Tennessean home, clocking 21:54 as Georgia's #6 runner. The race was won by Oregon's Nicole Blood in 20:04, as the Ducks beat runners-up Arkansas by 25 points to win the team title. In the men's race, won by Wisconsin's Matt Withrow in 23:20, the sole Tennessean in action, Georgia junior, Bejan Abtahi (who prepped at Father Ryan) clocked 25:53 to place 98th, but the Bulldogs finished last of the 11 teams. Oregon won with a 53-point tally. [results] 09.29.07: WEAVER 18TH IN STACKED GRIAK X-C MEET: Nashville's Lauren Weaver (nee Williams) led the Belmont Bruins in the women's race at the prestigious Roy Griak Cross-Country Invitational in Minneapolis,MN. The fifth year senior, who was a multiple state champ while prepping at David Lipscomb, placed 18th, clocking 21:57 over the tough 6K course, as Virginia senior Emily Harrison finished first in a time of 20:51. The #8 Minnesota women's cross country team packed its five scoring runners into the top 30 to score 97 points and capture the team title. Belmont, well out of their depth team-wise, finished 20th of the 26 teams. In the men's race, Bartlett's Rob Sorrell, a sophomore at Oklahoma University, was the first Tennessean home. Sorrell clocked 25:40 in 44th place. Northern Arizona used a 1-2 individual finish to power the Lumberjacks to the team title with 84 points, edging Arizona State’s runner-up tally of 88. Junior All-American Lopex Lmong captured medalist honors with a winning time of 24:04.2. Belmont placed a respectable 11th. [results | video, flocasts.org] 09.29.07: HARRELSON 11TH IN 5TH AVENUE MILE: Knoxville's Mary Jane Harrelson clocked a very respectable 4:41.6 in the women's race at the Continental Airlines 5th Avenue Mile, but found that to be only good enough to place 11th in a loaded 12-runner field. The race was won by Canada's Carmen Douma-Hassar in a speedy 4:22.8, the fastest time on the net downhill course since 1998. Alan Webb just barely prevented a Canadian sweep, edging Kevin Sullivan by two thenths of a second to win the men's race in 3:52.7. [results | video, flocasts.com] 09.29.07: SMITH, BIGLIN WINNERS AT SHELBY BOTTOMS BOOGIE 15K : Hermitage's Nicholas Smith (right) was the first runner home at the Shelby Bottoms 09.29.07: NOLEN, PASTOREK WINNERS AT BIG SOUTH FORK TRAIL RUN : Knoxville's Matt Nolen and Jonesborough's Allison Pastorek were the overall male and female winners at the 14th annual Big South Fork 17.5-mile Trail Run held just outside Oneida. Nolen clocked 1:55:45 to finish 44 seconds clear of runner-up Luke Bollschweiler, who, in turn, was five seconds up on 3rd place overall and first masters finisher, 43-year-old Tom Dever. Pastorek ran impressively to finish almost three minutes up on runner-up and masters winner, Marsha Morton. [results] 09.23.07: STOUFFER 6TH AT U.S. MASTERS 10K CHAMPS: Sevierville's Tere Stouffer finished 6th female at the U.S. Masters 10K Championships held in conjunction with the Heritage Oaks Bank Family Fun Run in Paso Robles,CA. Stouffer, 41, clocked a time of 36:40. Californian Sylvia Mosqueda won the national title in 34:54, whil Mbarek Hussein won the men's title in 29:54. Stouffer collected $300 for her morning's work. [results] 09.22.07: MATENA CRUISES TO CHICK-FIL-A 5K WIN: Daniel Matena led the Chick-Fil-A 5K in Nashville from start to finish, clocking an impressive 15:40 over the 09.22.07: SULLIVAN RUNS DOWN LEADERS IN EXCITING I RUN FOR THE PARTY 5K : Chattanooga-based Canadian, Colin Sullivan, ran down the duo that lead most of the race - Kenyan, Gideon Talam and Bowling Green's Jef Scott - with just a quarter of a mile remaining, charging down Demonbreun Street to win, crosiing the line in 15:18 and collecting $400. Talam, who lives in Marietta,GA, was second in 15:23, with Scott a nother two ticks back. Scott's wife, Michelle, cruised to victory in the women's race, clocking 20:25 for what turned out to be closer to 3.5 miles after several runners, including runner-up Lindsay LaRose were misdirected. First male and female masters runners home were Henry McFadden, 43, and Victoria Crisp, 55, of Nashville, clocking times of 21:06 and 21:13 respectively. [results] 09.22.07: KEVEREN SETS COURSE RECORD AT STACKED MCCALLIE INVITE AS BAYLOR BOYS, OAK RIDGE GIRLS NOTCH TEAM WINS: Despite temperatures in the In the girls' race, Science Hill's Allie Scalf won in a time of 19:06, twelve seconds up on Hoover's Nicole Muldowney, with Naylor frosh Hanna Jumpre running very well to place 3rd. Oak Ridge, with five in the top 19, beat runners-up Hoover by 19 points to win the girls' team competition, racking up just 48 points. [results | video (boys' race)] 09.22.07: KELLER CLASS OF FIELD AT FARRAGUT FALL 5K: Former UTmiddle distance star, Jasmine Keller (nee Jones) was the class of the field at the 11th annual Farragut Fall 5K. The 37-year-old clocked 18:21 to place 3rd overall, 80 seconds up on second place woman and masters winner, Brentwood's Sue Ann Guzik (a Farragut alum) who clocked a solid 19:41. The overall winner of the race was 41-year-old Ron Manis, who clocked 17:57. [results] 09.22.07: PEACOCK DEFENDS HOME TURF, WINS $400 AT INAUGURAL MURFREESBORO HALF: Murfreesboro school teacher, Theresa Peacock, defended her home turf in fine style at the sold-out, inaugural Murfreesboro Half-Marathon. Peacock, 45, clocked an impressive 1:28:37 to place first overall female, two minutes up on runner-up Meredith Thompson, and pocket $400. For Peacock, it was her fastest half-marathon in almost three years, but she had to dig in deep. "I worked hard for this one. It got really hot after about 10 miles. but this is my hometown, and I did not want to go into school on Monday, having finished finish 2nd or 3rd. I'm really happy." The male overall champion was Georgia-based Kenyan, Joseph Sitienei, who clocked 1:07:46, two minutes up on countryman Sammy Nyamongo. Fast-improving Timothy O'Leary, 45, of Antioch won the male maters title, clocking 1:23:25. [result | more, Daily News Journal] 09.16.07: NYAMONGO WINS LOADED WEARS VALLEY 15K: Morristown-based EBS Racing brought out its big guns for the 31st annual Wears Valley 15K in 09.15.07: KEVEREN DEFENDS TITLE AT TENNESSEE CLASSIC: Brentwood High senior, Sean Keveren, successfully defended his individual title at the 32nd annual Junior Ward Tennessee Classic high school cross-country meet, held at the Iroquois Steeplechase course in Nashville. Content to run with Baylor duo In the Silver race (for schools with enrollments of 1200 or less), Macon County 11th grader, Brandon Mahaney fought off Lipscomb's Ryan Johnson to come home the winner in 16:39, as MLK won a hotly cntested team race with 74 p oints, twelve ahead of Father Ryan. In the girls' Gold race, Austin High (Alabama) senior Jennifer Dunn, clocked 18:56 to win, but 9th grader Kacey Norbert ran very impressivey to finish second in 19:12 despite missing the start of the race (one of two to start early). Pre-meet favorites, Science Hill , won the team award with 95 points, with Bob Jones High (of Alabama) second with 131 points. In the Silver race, St Benedict senior, Elizabeth Altizer, was an emphatic winner, clocking 19:40, seventeen ticks up on Chattanoogas Chistian's Jessica Duble, as Ensworth picked up the team title. [results: girls | boys] 09.15.07: STOUFFER FIRST MASTER AT COW HARBOR 10K: Sevierville's Tere Stouffer was the first femal masters runner home at the 32nd annual Cow Harbor 10K in Northport,NY. Stouffer, 41, placed 5th among females and 33rd overall in the 5,000-plus field, clocking 36:40 over the challenging course. The first female finisher was Kristen Nicolini-Lemkuhle in 34:00, completing a family sweep, since her husband Jason had captured the men's title five minutes earlier with a 29:06 clocking. [results] 09.15.07: THOMPSON IMPRESSES AT CHRISTIE COOKIE 5K: Clarksville's Meredith Thompson bounced back from a recent foot injury to win the female overall title at the Bob Lunsford Memorial Christie Cookie 5K, clocking 19:22 over the challenging Green Hills layout. Se finished six seconds up on Paige Biglin. Jacob Carrigan won the men's title in 17:02, nine seconds up on Grantland Garrett. First male and female runners home were Nrentwood's John Lovell, 49, and Joelton's Suzanne Hale, 40, in times of 18:11 and 21:54. [results] 09.15.07: JORGENSEN WINS VANDY X-C INVITATIONAL: In only her second collegiate race ever, Vanderbilt freshman cross-country runner Rita Jorgensen stole the show at the Commodore Classic. The Memphis runner won the 5K race held at Percy Warner Park in 18:07, finishing ahead of the next closest runner by six The men's race was won by Henry Rop, a Kenyan import running for Union University in Jackson, won the men's race in a time of 25:15. Belmont, led by John Brigham, easily won the team competition, placing 5 in the top 8 with a spread of just 16 seconds. Men’s coach Jeff Langdon said, “We ran well as a pack. It’s good to get this one under our belts because we have a big one coming up next.” The Bruins travel to St. Paul, MN to run in in the highly competitive Roy Griak Invitational on September 29th. [results: women | men] 09.14.07: BADDORF, GIBSON WINNERS AT COOPER YOUNG 4-MILER : Bryan Baddorff and Lydia Gibson lived up to their pre-race favorite status at the Cooper Young 4-miler held in midtown Memphis. Baddorff was challenged early on in the in the race by Devin Wilber and Chuck Jones, but pulled away just 09.12.07: CLEMENT CLOCKS SEASON'S BEST IN RIETI: Three days after struggling in Rieti, Knoxville's Hazel Clark had another disappoiting race in Italy, placing 8th in the women's 800m at the Palio Città della Quercia meet in Rovereto, Italy, clocking a sluggish 2:05.93. Training partner Hazel Clark struggled in the 'B' heat of the 800m, clocking 2:02.42. [results] 09.09.07: CLEMENT CLOCKS SEASON'S BEST IN RIETI: Knoxville's Treniere Clement placed 6th in the women's 1500m at the IAAF Grand Prix meet in Rieti, Italy, clocking a season's best, 4:05.68, finishing just 0.06 seconds behind countrywoman, Lauren Fleshman. Training partner Hazel Clark struggled in the 'B' heat of the 800m, clocking 2:02.42. [results] 09.08.07: WRIGHT, REA WINNERS AT EASTMAN ROAD RACE: Recent Milligan College grad, Chris Wright, 24, was the first runner across the finish line at the Eastman Road Race in Kingsport. Wright covered the 10K course in 33:09; well off Ed Eyestone's 14-year-old course record of 28:38 (the Eastman used to be a big money road race), but good enough to pick up $200. Amanda Tate hopped over the state line fromBristol,VA and left Kingsport $2000 richer after winning a fine battle with North Carolina's Zika Rea to win in 37:24. First masters home, claiming $100 apiece, were Kingsport's Terry Ketron, 43, and Johnson City's Susan Rollins, 49, clocking times of 36:55 and 41:33 respectively. [results] 09.03.07: HILL, SHANNON VICTORS AT FRANKLIN CLASSIC: Kevin Hill successfully defended his Franklin Classic 10K title, winning the Labor Day race in a comfortable-looking 33:35, almost two minutes clear of Spring Hill's Mitchell Jones. Former Vanderbilt runner, Caitlin Shannon, 23, who now lives in Lexington,KY, was the class of the women's field, clocking a speedy 37:52. Male and female masters winners were 40-year-old Eric Vandervort of Clinton and Nashville's Amy Barrow, clocking times of 35:39 and 40:42 respectively. In the accompanying 5K race, Nashville's Ryan Snellen cruised to another win in 16:01, 40 seconds clear of Jacob Carrigan, while 45-year-old Theresa Peacock of Murfreesboro fought off Sue Ann Guzik to win the overall and masters female titles. Murfreesboro's Warren Hardwick won the male masters title. The 45-year-old clocked 19:25. [results: 10K | 5K] 09.02.07: ELLINGTON LEADS TENNESSEANS AT ROCK 'N' ROLL HALF-MARATHON: Knoxville's Stewart Ellington led the 200+ Tennesseans who took part in the 17,000-runner Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon in Virginia Beach,VA. Ellington, 32, was 23rd 08.31.07: VASQUEZ, ZIMMERMAN WINNERS AT CHEROKEE CLASSIC: In what was the first real benchmark for many East Tennessee high school harriers, Dobyns Bennett senior Josh Vasquez and Webb School sophomore Amber Zimmerman were the overall winners at the Cherokee Classic Cross-Country Meet in Knoxville. Vasquez, 4th at last years's State meet, clocked 15:53 to beat Knoxville West's Matt Sonnenfeldt by four seconds, as Science Hill won the team title with a 63-point tally. In the girls' race, Zimmerman the reigning Division II state champ, won in 19:01, fifteen seconds clear of Farragut's Alex Newby in second, as Dobyns-Bennett scooped the team award. Notable absentees included Oak Ridge's boys' and girls' teams and also Science Hill's girls. [results] 08.31.07: JORGENSEN IMPRESSIVE IN SEASON OPENER FOR VANDY: Vanderbilt freshman, Rita Jorgensen, showed that she is going to have an immediate impact on the Lady Commodores' cross-country campaign this year. The Memphis runners, who won four state titles at the State track meet for White Station High in May, clocked 14:28 over the 4K course at the Belmont-Vanderbilt Opener in Nashville. Jorgensen placed 4th and first for the 'Dores, with Nashville's Lauren Weaver (nee Williams) leading Belmont's squad in 8th place, 18 seconds back. The race was won by Tennessee's Sarah Bowman in 14:01, as UT won the team title with 53 points, eight points ahead of Vanderbilt in 2nd. Belmont placed 3rd with 73 points. Although they didn't supply the race winner, Belmont dominated the men's 5-kilometer race, held a half-hour later. The Bruins, led by senior, Jacob Buckman, placed all of their 5 scorers in the top 10, racking up just 23 points., some 61 pointsclear of Eastern Illinois in 2nd. Gabriel Rodriguez won the race in 15:01, while the first Tennessean home was Belmont assistant coach, Daniel Matena in 15:43, one second ahead of fellow BU grad Ryan Snellen. [results: women | men] 08.31.07: CLEMENT BOWS OUT IN 1500 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Treniere Clement was eliminated in the women's 1500m semi-finals at the WorldChampionships. The 25-year-old Georgetown grad could only manage a 9th place finish in the speedy second semi-final of the women's 1500. Clement (right) clocked 4:08.32, as Ukrainian Iryna Lischynska won in 08.29.07: CLEMENT SAFELY THROUGH 1500 PRELIM HEATS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Treniere Clement (right) ran well in the last of three 1st round heats of the women's 1500m at the 11th World Championships in Osaka, Japan. In a race that was sluggish for the first 800 meters, the 25-year-old used her sub-2 minute 800 speed to good effect and qualified automativally for Friday's semi-finals with a 2nd place finish in 4:10.85, just behind heat winner Yelena Soboleva of Russia. "The goal was to make it back, and that's what I did," Clement said. "Coach (J.J. Clark) said that if you run inside, the will be an opening... The opening came late in the race, in the last 300.. I tried to kick as hard as I could in the last 100. I feel really good." [results] 08.26.07: CLARK BOWS OUT IN 800 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Hazel Clark had a very disappointing run in the first of threesemi-finals of the 08.25.07: CLARK ADVANCES to 800 SEMI-FINALS IN OSAKA: Knoxville's Hazel Clark advanced to the semi-finals of the women's 800m at the 11th World Championships in Osaka, Japan, but only just. The 30-year old, whose form has been inconsistent since late June, failed to nab one of the three automatic qualifying berths in each of the six heats, and had to wait until the last heat to see if she would advance. "I was running wide a lot," she said post-race, and I made some bad moves, but I'm okay. I hope that makes it into the next round."She did, but only by a tenth of a second. Clark clocked 2:00.61, and was the only American to advance. The fastest qualifier was Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei, who clocked 1:58.95. [results] 08.25.07: STOUFFER 3RD AMERICAN, CLOCKS 59:07 AT CRIM 10-MILER: Sevierville's Tere Stouffer returned to Michigan, where she grew up, to take on a 08.18.07: DALTON, STOUFFER TOPS AT PHIPPS BEND 5K: Peter Dalton and Tere Stouffer were the overall male and female winners at the Phipps Bend 5K in Surgoinsville. Dalton, 24, a former ETSU runner from Ireland, who now serves as assistant coach at nearby Milligan College, clocked 16:10 and was 49 seconds ahead of the next finisher, Jonesborough's Bentley Hankins. Stouffer, 41, a former UT runner who lives in Sevierville and who is a regular TR contributor, clocked a zippy 17:46 to place 4th overall and finish over a minute clear of female runner-up, Molly Allen of Kingsport (18:48). Stouffer is training for the Twin Cities Marathon on October 7th, where she will be shooting for a 2008 Olympic Trials berth. [results] 08.18.07: SCOTTS SWEEP AT ELVIS 5K: Husband and wife team, Jef and Michelle Scott, were never seriously threatened for the overall male and female titles at the Elvis Presley International 5K Run in Memphis, and they left town with a couple of $300 checks for their morning's work. A weaker than usual field for the annual race which commemorates the King's death, and starts and finishes outside the gates of Graceland, offered little in the way of a threat to the former Western Kentucky University runners. Jef, 35, clocked 15:39 to beat runner-up and masters champ, Brian Pope of Oxford,MS, by 45 seconds. Michelle, 37, the women's cross-country coach at her alma mater, clocked 18:42 to beat runner-up, Memphian Lydia Gibson, by fifty seconds. Jeannie Watts, 46, of Slayden,MS, was the first female masters finisher, in a time of 22:19. [results] 08.18.07: BARROW NOTCHES ANOTHER WIN IN MURFREESBORO: Forty-nine year-old Amy Barrow notched her second female overall win in as many weeks at the Fenton Payne and Fred 5K in Murfreesboro. Barrow, who won the Smyrna Parks 5K last week, ran away from her female competitors early on in his 4th annual race held at MTSU. She clocked 19:10 to beat runner-up Kristi Phillips by a 34-second margin. Three minutes earlier, Leonel Avalos, visiting from Mexico, comfortably won the men's overall title, clocking 16:06, twenty-three seconds up on Jacob Carrigan. Dough Murphy, 41, claimed the male masters title, clocking 18:06, good for sixth overall. [results] 08.18.07: KROEGER BEGINS CHASE FOR THIRD TITLE: Independence junior Kathy Kroeger ran away with the past two Class AAA cross country state titles, but she hit a glitch in her plans for title No. 3. She got hurt. Kroeger's health will be the biggest question mark entering the high school cross country season, which officially starts Monday. [more, The Tennesean] 08.18.07: BRENTWOOD RUNNER SETS PACE: |
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stiff challenge from Alabama's Betty Rotich to win the women's 5000m in a 16:25.34 PR. Bargiachi (right) has steadily improved over her three-year career at Arkansas, and courageously led this race from gun to tape. Fellow Memphian, Rita Jorgensen, a Vanderbilt freshman had a fine run in the women's mile, clocking 4:48.41 in 6th place, as Tennessee's Sarah Bowman won convincingly in 4:37.16. And in the women's 800m final, Chattanooga's Phoebe Wright, a sophomore at UT, ran exceptionally well to place 3rd in the women's 800m in a time of 2:07.61.
East Conference Championships held in New York,NY. The former Brentwood Academy star racked up 16 individual points and helped his Georgetown quartet to 2nd place in the Distance Medley relay, but it wasn't enough to prevent UConn from winning their first ever conference title, adding to the women's title they won. In the men's mile, Bumbalough placed 2nd, timing in at 4:01.61, 1.50 seconds behind race winner, Kurt Benninger of Notre Dame. Bumbalough then, just 1 hour and 40 minutes later, turned in an additional second-place performance when he ran the 3000m in 8:04.81, an NCAA provisional qualifying time, and he was again the first of four Hoya performers in the event. Villanova's Bobby Curtis won that one, clocking 8:02.91. The previous evening he had clocked an impressive 2:55.1 opening leg for the Hoyas on a DMR team that clocked 9:33.60 - an NCAAA automatic qualifier - and finished just 0.70 seconds behind winners Villanova. Murfreesboro's Kelvin Hill made the final of the men's 800m for the Hoyas, clocking 1:53.65 in his heat, but placed last in the 9-man field, clocking a disappointing 1:56.96. [
women's 800 meters at the AT&T U.S. Indoor Championships in Boston, and earned herself a berth on the U.S. team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain next month. In a race that marked a triumphant return to the top for U.S. indoor record holder Nicole Teter, Cook, a former NCAA champion while at UT, took the field through 200m in a brisk 29.6. She was followed closely by Teter, Miesha Marzell, and Tiffany McWilliams on the outside. The order remained unchanged through 400m, reached in 1:01.17. Teter made her move shortly thereafter, passing Cook around the 600m mark (1:32.32). From there, Teter and Cook broke away from the field, with Teter holding on for the win on the home stretch, clocking 2:02.65 and closely followed by Cook's 2:02.86. [
an impressive 1:09:15 to finish 25 seconds up on Stewart Ellington. For Baksa (right), a 23-year-old fitness consultant for Clayton Homes, it was his second half-marathon win in the last three months, having won the Kiawah Island Half-Marathon in November of last year. Alan Horton also ran well, clocking 1:10:59 in third place. Mindy Leisure, 32, of Dayton,OH was a convincing women's victor, clocking 1:24:12, two minute clear of runner-up Rebecca McDowell, a Milligan College sophomore from Mechanicsville,VA. First male and female masters home were 40-year-old Eric Vandervort and Mary Jo Schmalz, 41, of Birmingham,AL, who clocked times of 1:17:11 and 1:28:38 respectively. [
Andrew Bumbalough (right) joined the elite club of Americans who have run the mile in under four minutes this weekend, when he won the Giegengack Indoor Invitational 1 mile run. The Georgetown University junior blazed around Yale University's banked 200-meter track at the Coxe Cage in New Haven, CT in a time of 3:58.46, which is an automatic qualifying time for next month's NCAA Championships and also the fastest collegiate mark in the nation so far this year. 
by the Nashville Predators. Keveren, just 17, clocked 15:44 over the tough downtown course, gradually pulling a way from a returning-to-form Chris Demetra to win by 10 seconds. Brentwood also supplied the women's overall winner in 24-year-old Melissa Strei. The recent Minnesota transplant clocked 18:38 to win by over a minute from Kirsten Sass. First male and female masters finishers were 45-year-olds, Timothy O'Leary and Mindy Williams, clocking times of 18:05 and 24:24 respectively. [
Foot Locker South Region Championships in Charlotte,NC. Kroeger, the junior from Independence High School who is the reigning Foot Locker National Champion, made a move at 2 miles, and appeared to pull away from a large pack somewhat decisively, but was run down in the last 400 meters by a fast-finishing Kayla Hale of Florida. 
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Haute,IN. The event, which was televised nationally on CSTV for the first time in history, lived up to its billing as both the men’s and women’s races were extremely competitive and gave the thousands of fans in attendance an exciting show.
Cross-Country Championships, held in Northfield, MN, to help her Amherst College team to a national team title. The Lord Jeffs (yes, that is really their nickname!) finished one point shy of the crown in 2006, and avenged that runner-up finish with the program’s first championship this season. Partee ran 
Talbert's fine run, Milligan, with 5 in the top sixty. placed 3rd in the team competition with 163 points as Simon Fraser University (BC) won their fifth straight national title. A Chris Layne said, “We've definitely come a long way,” proud Milligan coach,said Chris Layne in his eighth season as Milligan track and cross country coach. “It takes time to reach these heights and beyond, and more so when your institution isn't a household name in the world of college athletics. It's been a fun journey with an excellent group of student-athletes to work with throughout the past eight years.”
winners of the Gupton Jeep Wrangler Run 4-miler in Springfield. Milner (right, center) ran with Jacob Carrigan until half a mile to go before kicking clear to win by 13 seconds in 21:45. Paul, a 26-year-old former Western Kentucky standout, ran despite suffering from a cold and clocked a pedestrian (for her) 25:45. First male and female masters home were Springield's own Keith Woodall, 45, and Nashville's Donna Wittman, 52, clocking 23:49 and 29:28 respectively. [
t the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Men's Marathon in Central Park, Hall tamed what had been thought of as a slow and very difficult course, breaking the Olympic Trials record with his winning time of 2:09:02. Ritzenhein was second in a personal-best time of 2:11:06, with Sell third in 2:11:40. 
team to its sixth consecutive conference team title at Nashville's Percy Warner Park. Content to let a trio of East Tennessee State runners build up an early lead, Langdon's harriers stuck together, before junior Colin Magut took over around 5K. Magut, a Kenyan native, won the race in 25:10 as the Bruins placed seven runners in the top 15, tallying just 30 points. ETSU finished 2nd with 46 points, with Lipscomb University 6th. 
ran impressively in the women's race at the SEC Championships in Lexington,KY to help her Razorbacks to another conference title. Bargiachi, 21, clocked 21:05 over the 6K course at Kentucky Horse Park, finishing just 16 seconds sown on race winners, Sarah Madebach of Georgia. Also running very impressively was Alabama freshman Haley Moody of Morristown. The former Morristown West star finidshed 12th overall in 21:22 and was the fourth freshman home. Among other Tennesseans, former White Station multiple state champ, Rita Jorgensen, a freshman at Vanderbilt, placed 31st, and former Brentwood High star, Jill Skinner placed 39th (Georgias's #6). Tennessee placed 2nd with 84, edging Georgia by a single point, whil eVanderbilt struggled to an 8th place finish. 
High junior Kathy Kroeger's impressive 17:58 solo run, the Bruins occupied the next four slots and racked up just 25 points to win in very convincing fashion. Ravenwood edged Independence for the runner-up spot. In the boys' race, Brentwood senior, Sean Keveren, hung back for the first two miles to help his teammates, before kicking into high gear in the last mile to overhaul Independence's Josh Helton. Keveren clocked a pedestrian 16:50 after going through the first mile slower than Kroeger! The Bruins tallied 33 points to win by 17 from Independence. [results: girls | boys]
impressive winners of the Comdata Brentwood 10K, and each picked up $300. Gildea, 27, ran with Alan Horton and eventual runner-up, Colin Sullivan, through 3 miles, before putting the hammer down and eventually stretching his cushion to 28 seconds by the finish, clocking 30:51. Sullivan and Horton came on to the Brentwood High School track stride for stride, but Sullivan's miling speed told in the last 100 meters as he pulled clear to nab second in 31:19. More impressive, though, was the performance of Cherobon to win the women's overall title. The former NCAA Div.II National Champion (for Harding University), who lives in Lawrenceville,GA, was paced by Brentwood High star, Sean Keveren, and finished over 4 minutes clear of runner-up, Michelle Scott of Bowling Green, KY, shattering the copurse record with a 32:56 clocking. Scott clocked 37:18 in second. First male and female masters home were Brentwood's Paul Scalisi, 47, and Debbie Spahn, 40, clocking 36:42 and 48:16 respectively. [
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leading the Hoyas' men's cross country team to the team crown at the Colonial Inter-Regional Challenge. The Hoya men, ranked #16 nationally in the latest USTFCCCA poll, totaled just 26 points to edge host and #13-ranked William & Mary by nine. Bumbalough finished the 8K Dunbar Farms course in 24:13, just over two seconds ahead of William & Mary's Ian Fitzgerald. In the women's race, Virginia Tech's Tasmin Fanning was the first runner home in 20:21, and she led the Hokies to the team title. Vanderbilt, paced by Memphis freshman Rita Jorgensen in 11th (21:44), placed 5th 
8-kilometer course. Press's (former Webb and current UT) teammate, Denton Jones, also ran well, placing 30th in 24:47. And sophomore Chris Kane (who prepped at Karns) finished sixth on the team and 64th overall with a big PR of 25:23. The race was won by Easter Kentucky's Jacob Korir in a sizzling 23:09. Louisville won the team competition, with Tennessee placing 4th, ETSU 7th, and UT-Chattanooga 10th. In the women's 5K race, won by Kentucky, UT-Chattaanooga placed 5th, MTSU 11th, and Vanderbilt's 'B' team 26th. [results: 
Boogie 15K. Smith, 25, a former collegiate runner at Younstown State, clocked 53:04 to win comfortably while Paige Biglin won the women's race nin similarly convincing fashion, clocking 1:00:34. First male and female masters finshers were John Lovell, 50, and Amy Barrrow, 49, who finished 3rd and 2nd overall respectively, clocking times of 56:18 and 1:01:53. In the accompanying 5K, Nashville's Jacob Carrigan and Anne Marshall were the overall male and female winners, clocking 17:15 and 19:41 respectively, while Bill Crutchfield, 40, and Shawna Peace, 46, won the masters titles, clocking 18:44 and 24:55 respectively. [results: 
challenging course along Belmont Boulevard and 12th Avenue South. The 24-year-old Australian, who is currently an assistant coach at Belmont University, held off a challenge from fellow BU grad Ryan Snellen to win by fifteen seconds. The first female finisher was 20-year-old Hannah Bienhoff, a Belmont student hailing from Delaware, who clocked 21:15. First male and female masters finishers were 55-year-old Abraham Cervantes and 48-year-old Susan Lambreth of Brentwood, clocking times of 19:33 and 22:45 respectively. [
Townsend. Led by race winner, Kenyan Sammy Nyamongo, EBS supplied the top three overall male finishers. Nyamongo, 31, who stopped mid-race to re-tie his shoe, came from 4th place to beat the fast field. He clocked 47:38 to finish four seconds ahead of Chad Newton, who was in turn three seconds ahead of former UT runner, Ben Lukowski as five men wen under 48 minutes. Nyamongo claimed the crown with what was believed to be the second fastest finishing time in race history, behind only Marty Sonnenfeldt's 47:00 course record. In all, five runners eclipsed the 48-minute barrier, making this by far the fastest and most competitive race at Wears Valley ever. Taylor Poling led the women home, clocking 59:07, leading a Runner's Market sweep of the top three places. First male and female masters home were Greg Johnson, 49, and Kathy Wolski, 40, clocking 55:05 and 1:03:32 respectively. Wolski's time was all the more impressive when one considers she is five months pregnant. [
Waldo du Plessis and Bill Matthews through the first mile of the Boys' Gold race in 5:08, Keveren (right) stepped on the gas around the halfway mark, clocking a 4:59 second mile, and finishing 24 seconds clear in clocked 15:46. Baylor comfortably won the team competition with 57 points, 61 points clear of runner-up Maryville. 
seconds."When I realized I had a chance to get first in the Commodore Classic, I was ecstatic," exuded Jorgensen. "I felt very strong during the race." Head coach Steve Keith was impressed with Jorgensen's accomplishment. "It was a solid effort by Rita. She calculated her place well. Within the first mile, I think she had her eyes set on the leaders. When she took the lead, she was in great position to win the race." Missouri won the closely contested team compeition by just 5points, ahead of Georgia tech and the Commodores.
overall (2nd American behind 20 Kenyans and a Tanzanian) in 1:08:44, and within a minute of the PR he set in Houston earlier this year. Clarksville's Julie Shuck was the first female Tennesean Home, clocking 1:37:39. Also impressive was the performance of Morristown's Malcolm Oliver, 59, who placed 3rd in the 55-59 age group. [
4:08.32. "I was prepared to go out at any pace - slow or fast," she said after the race. "I lost focus with about two laps to go when I clipped a girl and I was trying to regain my balance." Fellow American Erin Donohoe also finished 9th in her semi-final, meaning that there will be no U.S representative in the final on Sunday. [
loaded field at the prestigious Crim 10-miler in Flint. The 41-year-old (right), who won 4 state titles at Royal Oak Shrine High School in Detroit before attending UT on a scholarship in the late 80s, placed 3rd among Americans and was first master home, clocking an impressive 59:07 despite the hot and humid conditions and a power cucross the entire city on the eve and morning of the race. "I was satisfied with my run. I would have like to have broken 59:00 and being first Amarican, but I'm happy. The night before, with no AC was, uncomfortable but everyone was in the same boat." Stouffer collected $1300 for her Crim effort, and now has five weeks until the Twin Cites Marathon in Minneapolis-St Paul, where she hopes to earn an Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier. [results]