UC Santa Cruz Athletics
Pacific Collegiate Invitational
Men’s Cross Country wins Pacific Collegiate Invite
9/29/2023 11:00:00 PM | Women's Cross Country
Women place third
LODI– Casey Orton and Eric Jackson were the top scorers as UC Santa Cruz won the 2023 Pacific Collegiate Invitational on Friday evening.
Orton placed 10th overall in 25:06, with Jackson less than a second after him for 11th out of the 100 runners. However, they were fourth and fifth among the college participants running the 8K course, which gave UC Santa Cruz a huge start in the team score.
The only Division III school sending a full men's team, the Banana Slugs finished with 37 points, 34 points better than Division II Fresno Pacific and 61 points better than Division I Sacramento State. It's the first regular season 8K meet the Banana Slugs placed first in since the 2019 Santa Clara Bronco Invitational Open.
Three other Banana Slugs finished in the top 20. Raymond Ingersoll was 14th in 25:17.1, and Eric Anderson was 16th in 25:30.7. Holden Spencer crossed in 25:39.8 to place 20th.
Camden Hebert was 24th in 25:48.4, Camden Jaureguy ran a 26:07.7 to place 32nd and Marcus Fehlman crossed in 26:13.2 to place 37th.
The rest of the UC Santa Cruz contingent was Nick Sciole (26:19.9), Dylan Cronin (26:28.1), Michael Masotti (26:31.4), Viktor Kieturakis (26:40.9), Alex Wille (26:54), Liam Manley (26:56), Diego Vizcarra (27:04), Eduardo Palma (27:14), and Nathan Leroy (27:18).
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In the women's 6K, UC Santa Cruz finished third out of nine teams with 84 points, behind only Division I St. Mary's and Sacramento State.
Riley Martel-Phillips had her second sub-22 race of the year to finish 11th in 21:59.0. Hanna Hekkanen was the next Banana Slug to finish, placing 16th in 22:20.5. Helena Janku and Kenzie Seymour finished 18th and 19th with identical times of 22:22.8, while Elena Stanciu was 20th in 22:26.8.
The other Banana Slugs who finished were Luna Centeno (22:50), Andrea Gallardo (23:20), Emma Wirz (23:21), Cheryl Chuang, Faith Dyogi (tied at 23:21.6), Jordan Baden (23:26), Hope Martin (23:40), Frieda Cedillo (23:50), Marianne Chuang (24:18), Sofia Placias (24:22), Emma Cadena (24:25), Ryanne Reynolds (24:30), Arabella Edler (24:37), and Madelyn Basinet (24:49).
The Banana Slugs' depth will be put to the test in two weeks when the team has two meets in two different states Saturday October 14th: the Augustana Interregional in Illinois and the Bronco Invite in Sunnyvale.
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