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SALEM, Ore. – Alli Cutting ran way in front of the Seattle Pacific pack and also was well up in a very large field on Saturday morning, taking 50th place overall in the Charles Bowles Invitational cross country meet at Bush's Pasture Park.

Cutting's time for the 5-kilometer course around and through the Willamette University campus was 18 minutes, 32.23 seconds. That put her in the upper fifth of the 257 finishers.

SPU finished 21st among the 24 teams with 553 points. Idaho won with 55.

The eight Falcons behind Cutting were all bunched within a minute of each other. Leading the way for the SPU group was sophomore Krysta Carrick (Tokyo, Japan), who placed 135th in 19:52.03. Freshman Megan Knape (Rockland, Mich.), freshman Leah Swanson (Seattle/Blanchet HS) and sophomore Kelsey Brown (Colorado Springs, Colo.) rounded out the scoring.

Senior Jacob Wahlenmaier (Everett, Wash./Cascade HS) led the Falcon men to a 16th place finish. Wahlenmaier completed the 8-kilometer course in 26:21.31, placing 115th overall, and the entire SPU five-fan scoring pack finished within 24 seconds.

SPU wound up with 488 points. Portland led the 23-team field with 25 points.

Junior Daniel Hamilton (Missoula, Mont.) was one spot and less than one second behind Wahlenmaier. Junior Nate Sleight (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue Christian HS), sophomore AJ Baker (AuGres, Mich.) and sophomore Andrew Van Ness (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue Christian HS) were Seattle Pacific's other three scorers.

Both Falcon teams return to action next Saturday in Bellingham's Lake Padden Park at the Pre-Regional meet. The men's 8K race begins at 10 a.m., followed by the women's 5K at 11 a.m.

EMERALD CITY OPEN
Nate Seely was the first of three Seattle Pacific finishers across the line at the Emerald City Open in Seattle's Lower Woodland Park on Saturday morning.

Seely (Lynden, Wash./Lynden HS), a sophomore, finished the rugged 8K course in 30 minutes 20 seconds, taking 48th place. Freshman Andrew Rae (St. Helens) Oregon was 57th, and freshman Matt Edel (Portland, Ore.) took 59th.


NCAA WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Charles Bowles Invitational
Saturday, October 2, 2010
5 kilometers at Bush's Pasture Park/Salem, Ore.

Team scores – 1, Idaho 55; 2, Alaska Anchorage 95; 3, Chico State 111; 4, Lipscomb 127; 5, UC Riverside 136; 6, Portland 205; 7, Whitworth 257; 8, Hawaii 260; 9, Lewis & Clark 271; 10, Portland State 312; 11, Western Oregon 316; 12, Willamette 379; 13, Northwest Nazarene 389; 14, Hawaii Pacific 401; 15, Whitman 449; 16, San Jose State 460; 17, Linfield 515; 18, Cal State East Bay 526; 19, Puget Sound 532; 20, Pacific Lutheran 544; 21, Seattle Pacific 553; 22, Creighton 586; 23, Pacific (Oregon) 643; 24, George Fox 703.
Top 5 – Miriam Kipng'en0 (UAA) 17:19.04; 2, Frida Aspnaes (HP) 17:28.05; 3, Ruth Keino (UAA) 17:31.72; 4, Julia Veseth (Idaho) 17:37.18; 5, Ashley Aitken (Haw) 17:38.76. SPU placers – 50, Alli Cutting 18:32.23; 135, Krysta Carrick 19:52.03; 151, Megan Knape 20:04.78; 162, Leah Swanson 20:11.37; 175, Kelsey Brown 20:26.22; 181, Laura Moser 20:28.86; 190, Alexandra Dorsey 20:33.85; 191, Josephine Becker 20:33.93; 208, Kayla Wilkins 20:46.82.


NCAA MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Charles Bowles Invitational
Saturday, October 2, 2010
8 kilometers at Bush's Pasture Park/Salem, Ore.

Team scores – 1, Portland 25; 2, Chico State 62; 3, Alaska Anchorage 90; 4, Idaho 142; 5, Willamette 155; 6, UC Riverside 202; 7, Northwest Nazarene 221; 8, Western Oregon 228; 9, Portland State 263; 10, Whitworth 269; 11, Oregon 291; 12, Lipscomb 302; 13, Lewis & Clark 391;14, Linfield 411; 15, Whitman 474; 16, Seattle Pacific 488; 17, Hawaii Pacific 510; 18, Creighton 512; 19, Puget Sound 545; 20, Pacific Lutheran 576; 21, Pacific (Oregon) 580; 22, George Fox 591; 23, Cal State East Bay 705.
Top 5 – 1, Marko Cheseto (UAA) 23:18.70; 2, Trevor Dunbar 23:22.67; 3, Joash Osoro (Port) 22:31.69; 4, Alfred Kipchumba (Port) 23:31.73; 5, Lars Erik Malde (Port) 23:33.68. SPU placers – 115, Jacob Wahlenmaier 26:21.31; 116, Daniel Hamilton 26:22.14; 124, Nate Sleight 26:31.37; 130, AJ Baker 26:42.98; 143, Andrew Van Ness 26:55.39; 174, Gavin Brand 27:43.68; 191, Nicholaus Schonewald 28:12.00; 210, Josiah Sherwood 28:45.76; 222, Stephen York 29:15.34.