Complete women's results (PDF)
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LACEY, Wash. – Katie Thralls ran to a top-10 finish, taking eighth overall, and the Seattle Pacific women had another pair of top-20 finishers to take second place at the Saint Martin's Invitational cross country meet on Saturday morning.
 
The Falcons, ranked 18^th nationally this week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, totaled 48 points in the meet on the Saint Martin's campus. Western Washington won with 27. SPU beat out two other Great Northwest Athletic Conference stablemates, as Alaska Fairbanks was third with 65 points, and Saint Martin's fourth with 95.
 
This was the fifth time the Falcons have finished as high as second at Saint Martin's. They did not race here last year, and were fifth in 2010.
 
Thralls (Livermore, Calif.), a senior in her first year of cross country, completed the 6-kilometer course in 23 minutes, 17.44 seconds. It was her first time of being the first SPU runner across the line. The only GNAC competitor ahead of her was Western Washington's Katelyn Steen, who was third in 22:28.24. Ruth Perkins, who competed for Seattle Pacific from 1999 to 2003 (known then as Ruth Hawkinson) was the winner in 22:07.39.
 
In last week's Sundodger Invitational, Thralls finished seventh in the Open Division race.

Sophomore Jasmone Johnson (Federal Way, Wash. / Federal Way HS) ran 16th overall on Saturday in 24:04.51, and freshman Anna Patti (Renton, Wash. / Lindbergh HS) was 20th in 24:22.40.
 
Seattle Pacific ran just four in the men's race. Freshman Brett Bertrand (Sammamish, Wash. / Eastside Catholic HS) was the first Falcons across the line,taking 36th in 28:10.02 for 8 kilometers. It was Bertrand's first college race.

Many of SPU's top runners from both teams took the day off from competition in preparation for next Saturday's Charles Bowles / Willamette Invitational in Salem, Ore. That meet, which typically includes several teams from the West Region in addition to GNAC teams, will be the last major competition for the Falcons prior to the conference championships on Oct. 20.
 
 
 
NCAA WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Saint Martin's Invitational
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012
6 kilometers at Saint Martin's University / Lacey, Wash.
 
Team scores – 1, Western Washington 27; 2, Seattle Pacific 48; 3, Alaska Fairbanks 65; 4, Saint Martin's 95; 5, Olympic 134; all others incomplete
Top 5 – 1, Ruth Perkins (Club NW) 22:07.39; 2, Madeline McDonald (Victoria) 22:09.50; 3, Katelyn Steen (WWU) 22:28.24; 4, Emily McMahon (Spirit of Oregon) 22:32.45; 5, Linda Huyck (Unattached) 22:40.63. SPU placers – 8, Katie Thralls 23:17.44; 16, Jasmine Johnson 24:04.51; 20, Anna Patti 24:22.40; 27, Josie Becker 25:06.17; 28, Elizabeth Doe 25:09.23; 35, Alli Cutting 25:47.40.
 
 
NCAA MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Saint Martin's Invitational
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012
8 kilometers at Saint Martin's University / Lacey, Wash.
 
Team scores – 1, Victoria 18; 2, Western Washingtno 42; 3, Alaska Fairbanks 95; 4, Saint Martin's 125; 5, Green River CC 142; 6, Olympic College 179; 7, Evergreen State 181; 8, Club Northwest 217.
Top 5 – 1, Ryan Cassicy (Vic) 25:40.75; 2, Forrest Simpson (Vic) 25:45.43; 3, Dak Riek (WWU) 25:47.65; 4, Dylan Haight (Vic) 26:09.43; 5, Doug Oxland (Vic) 26:12.98. SPU placers – 36, Brett Bertrand 28:10.02; 47, Brian Comer 28:40.59; 50, Nick Derrah 29:02.43; 56, Colin Wilkins 29:23.58. Others – 27, Alex Horton (Unattached) 27:48.18.