Records galore as Banana Slugs run in Illinois

Saturday, October 15

Saukie Golf Course- Rock Island, IL

8:00 AM Pacific

UC Santa Cruz Athletics

Augustana Interregional Invite

10/15/2022 6:00:00 PM | Women's Cross Country

Men and Women both set records for team time, Jackson breaks school 8K record

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS- The nationally-ranked UC Santa Cruz cross country teams got to show off their talent at the Augustana Interregional Invite.

Facing off against a predominantly Division III field for the first time this season, the UC Santa Cruz men placed seventh out of the 27 schools. The women were ninth out of 25.

Reigning Conference Champion Eric Jackson led the Banana Slugs with a 22nd-place finish in 24:21.7. The mark was a new PR for him and the fastest 8K in school history. Raymond Ingersoll was 36th in a new PR of 24:34.7, which is the 3rd fastest 8K ever by a Banana Slug. Luke Holland was 43rd in 24:40.5, good for the fourth fastest time.

Walter Teitelbaum was 49th in 24:44.8 and Casey Orton was 57th with his PR of 24:58.3.
The new times at the top of the career list also meant the team record was shattered. The top five runners averaged 24:40 for a team time of 2:03.20, 2.23 seconds better than the mark set last year at Stanislaus. Teitelbaum, Ingersoll and Jackson were also on that record-setting quintet.

Also running well for UC Santa Cruz were Oliver Chang (66th, 25:06.0), Hayden Johnson (111th, 25:36.3), Holden Spencer (123rd, 25:47.9), and Eric Anderson (127th, 25:50.0).

For the women, Riley-Martel-Phillips paced UC Santa Cruz with an 11th place finish. Her time of 21:39.4 was just 0.4 seconds off her PR and was her second sub-21:40 6K this year. Ash Baudin was 0.7 seconds behind Martel-Phillips in 12th place.

Faith Dyogi was 47th in 22:36, Iris Abegglen crossed in 22:55.5 for 74th and Andrea Gallardo finished in 23:03.9 to place 87th.

The women's team time of 1:51.54 was also a new school record, 1.64 seconds better than what UC Santa Cruz ran at last year's C2C Championships.

Monica Fonseca (116th, 23:32.9), Hanna Hekkanen (122nd, 23:40.0), Sage Simms (127th, 23:44.9) and Cheryl Chuang (132nd, 23:51.0) rounded out the Banana Slug squad.

The teams get on a plane again in two weeks when they travel to Maryland to defend their C2C titles.