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Murphy Fifth to Lead Utah at Pac-12 Cross Country Championships
10/27/2017 5:47 PM | Cross Country
Utah takes sixth at Pac-12 Championships.
Eugene, Ore. – Led by a fifth-place finish by Grayson Murphy, the 27th -ranked Utah cross country team finished in sixth place at the Pac-12 Championships on Friday morning.
"We were six, but scored the lowest points we've ever scored at this meet and definitely ran our best race of the year as a team," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "We ran great, we were challenging the whole way and we just had a few spots change hands towards the end."
Grayson Murphy finished the 6-km course in a time of 19:03.8 to take home a fifth-place finish in a field of 106 competitors to earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors. She improved seven spots from last year's Pac-12 Championships.
Finishing behind Murphy was sophomore Poppy Tank who finished the race in a time of 19.28.5 which was good for 18th place sophomore Amanda Gehrich took 35th place with a time of 20:00.3.
"Poppy Tank ran an absolutely terrific race," Kepler said. "She finished in the top 20 as a sophomore, so that was awesome to see."
Rounding out the top five scorers for the Utes were seniors Jessica Sams and Louise Mercer. Sams finished the course in a time of 20:12.8 which was good for a 47th-place finish and Mercer finished in 49th place with a time of 20:14.1.
Also running for the Utes was freshman Trina Moreno who finished in 63rd place with a time of 20:36.1, senior Dakota Grossman who took 66th with a time of 20:42.5, junior Caitlin Faust who took 70th with a time of 20:51.1, freshman Aubrey Argyle who finished in 74th with a time of 20:54.7 and senior Hannah McInturff who took 82nd with a time of 21:04.0.
As a team, Utah finished in sixth place with 146 points. Taking home to the team title was No. 3 ranked Colorado with 53 team points. Second was No. 1 ranked Oregon (71 points), third was No. 14 Stanford (71 points), fourth was No. 13 Washington (128 points), and finishing off the top five teams was No. 28 California (132 points).
"We gave them a great chase, we were in it and the points battle was close the entire way," Kepler said. "We were just playing catch up the whole way and just couldn't quite get back the points we needed."
The Utes will have a week off to recuperate and get ready for their next meet, the NCAA Mountain Regionals. The meet will be held in Logan, UT on Friday Nov. 10.
"We were six, but scored the lowest points we've ever scored at this meet and definitely ran our best race of the year as a team," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "We ran great, we were challenging the whole way and we just had a few spots change hands towards the end."
Grayson Murphy finished the 6-km course in a time of 19:03.8 to take home a fifth-place finish in a field of 106 competitors to earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors. She improved seven spots from last year's Pac-12 Championships.
Finishing behind Murphy was sophomore Poppy Tank who finished the race in a time of 19.28.5 which was good for 18th place sophomore Amanda Gehrich took 35th place with a time of 20:00.3.
"Poppy Tank ran an absolutely terrific race," Kepler said. "She finished in the top 20 as a sophomore, so that was awesome to see."
Rounding out the top five scorers for the Utes were seniors Jessica Sams and Louise Mercer. Sams finished the course in a time of 20:12.8 which was good for a 47th-place finish and Mercer finished in 49th place with a time of 20:14.1.
Also running for the Utes was freshman Trina Moreno who finished in 63rd place with a time of 20:36.1, senior Dakota Grossman who took 66th with a time of 20:42.5, junior Caitlin Faust who took 70th with a time of 20:51.1, freshman Aubrey Argyle who finished in 74th with a time of 20:54.7 and senior Hannah McInturff who took 82nd with a time of 21:04.0.
As a team, Utah finished in sixth place with 146 points. Taking home to the team title was No. 3 ranked Colorado with 53 team points. Second was No. 1 ranked Oregon (71 points), third was No. 14 Stanford (71 points), fourth was No. 13 Washington (128 points), and finishing off the top five teams was No. 28 California (132 points).
"We gave them a great chase, we were in it and the points battle was close the entire way," Kepler said. "We were just playing catch up the whole way and just couldn't quite get back the points we needed."
The Utes will have a week off to recuperate and get ready for their next meet, the NCAA Mountain Regionals. The meet will be held in Logan, UT on Friday Nov. 10.
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