Calvin College won both the men’s and women’s team titles in the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Men’s Cross Country Championship at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course on Saturday.
Men — Calvin College and Heidelberg (second place) were automatic qualifiers to the NCAA Divison III meet.
Individually, Calvin sophomore Nick Kramer topped a field of 248 runners with a winning 8K time of 25:45. Makorobo Salukombo from Denison led seven automatic individual qualifiers with a time of 25:53.
Other automatic qualifiers included Andy Williams of Manchester; Alan Bowsher of Ohio Northern; Kevin McCarthy of Wabash; Justin Dickman of Ohio Northern; Bryce Basista of Mount Union; and Eric Line of Oberlin.
Other teams under consideration for the NCAA Division III National Championships were the third, fourth and fifth place squads. Manchester placed third with 150 points, Mount Union finished fourth with 192, and Case Western Reserve finished fifth with 196.
If the NCAA Division III championships committee selects Manchester, Mount Union or Case Western as an at-large representative, additional runners will be added to the meet. The first additional runners from the Great Lakes Region would include Ty Griffin of Mount Union, Seth Einterz of Wabash, and Evan Hitchcock of Ohio Wesleyan.
Meet co-host Rose-Hulman placed 20th overall in the team scoring. Sophomore Tyler Kreipke led the Engineers with all-region honors and a 20th place finish in a time of 26:28. Sophomore Micah Aldrich placed 46th in 27:06, followed by Josh Elkins in a time of 28:23.
The top 35 runners in the Great Lakes Regional are eligible to receive all-region honors.
Women — Calvin College was joined by Oberlin College as an automatic team qualifier for next weekend’s national meet.
Individually, Denison University junior Katie Navarre led a pack of 231 runners to the finish line with a six-kilometer time of 21:23 at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course.
Navarre earned one of seven individual automatic qualifications for the NCAA Division III Championships scheduled for next Saturday at Baldwin-Wallace.
Other automatic qualifiers included Lauren Reich of DePauw, Elaine Simpson of Case Western Reserve, Alison Steinbrunner of Ohio Northern, Jillian McLaughlin of Kalamazoo, Heather Waterman of Franklin and Mary Pfeifer of Wittenberg.
Other teams under consideration for the NCAA Division III National Championships were the third, fourth and fifth place squads. Case Western Reserve placed third with 130 points, followed closely by DePauw at 150 points and Baldwin-Wallace with 157.
If the NCAA Division III championships committee selects Case Western, DePauw or Baldwin-Wallace as an at-large representative, additional runners will be added to the meet. The first additional runners from the Great Lakes Region would include Heather Stalter of Mount Union, D’Arcy Hlavin of Baldwin-Wallace and Kimberly Chinn of Baldwin-Wallace.
Meet co-host Rose-Hulman placed 25th overall in the team scoring. Senior Melissa Rogers led Rose with a 51st place finish in a time of 24:04. Freshman Creasy Clauser came home 85th in a time of 24:42.
Soccer
• Rose honored — Rose-Hulman placed seven players on the all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference team, including its fourth straight league Player of the Year award and second straight Coach of the Year honor, in results released Thursday by the conference office.
Senior Rhys Evans was named HCAC Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive year, making Evans the first player in Rose history to earn two league MVP awards in the sport of soccer.
Coach Sean Helliwell was also honored as league Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season. Helliwell (26-11-4) and holds the school record winning percentage at .683, becomes the first men’s soccer coach in program history to earn two Coach of the Year awards.
Other first-team honorees included junior Corbin Clow, senior Cameron Hazel and sophomore Clint Vatterrodt.
Second-team award winners were sophomore Tim Hollingshead, junior Mitchell Ishmael and junior Eric Myers.
High school awards
• Knights honored — Northview High School honored its fall sports athletes recently.
The Knights won Western Indiana Conference championships in football, volleyball, boys tennis and girls golf and were sectional champions in volleyball and tennis. Both cross country teams and the girls golf team were also regional qualifiers.
Jessi Moore of the girls soccer team was honored for being a first-team selection on the all-state academic team.
All-WIC athletes — Alyssa Conrad, girls cross country; Conor Strain, boys cross country; Jr. Hubbard, Drake Stevenson, Scotty Wheeler, Jonathan Bradshaw, Zac Niehaus, Trent Lancaster and Damon Hyatt, football; Olivia Oehler, Mandy Thomlinson, Allison Trout and Haylee Miller, girls golf; Carlee Bell, Jacki Moore and Hannah Pond, girls soccer; Drew Snyder, James Bryan and Alex Frankville, boys soccer; Trent Sims, Joey Thomas and Caleb Mershon, boys tennis; and Brittaney Long, Ashlen Buck, Ali Sharton and Hannah Hayes, volleyball.
Four-year awards — Corey Laue, girls cross country; Conor Strain, boys cross country; Joel Rector, Drake Stevenson, Brady Silvers, Tim Wetnight, Jordan Allen, Scotty Wheeler and Johnathan Bradshaw, football; Olivia Oehler, Allison Trout and Mandy Thomlinson, girls golf; Carlee Bell, Jessi Moore and Breanna Fagg, girls soccer; James Bryan, Ryan Hines, Robert Joslyn, Josh Lynch, Jordan Nelson and Drew Snyder, boys soccer; Trent Sims, boys tennis; Brittaney Long, Stephanie McMains, Brailyn Whitson, Ali Sharton, Alyssa Clarke, Maxine West and Samantha Solomon, volleyball.
Noble Knight awards — Nicole Nelson, girls cross country; Conor Strain, boys cross country; Drake Stevenson, football; Allison Trout, girls golf; Jessi Moore, girls soccer; Josh Lynch, boys soccer; Trent Sims, boys tennis; Kaylee Clark, volleyball.
Running
• Fall Classic —At Haythorne Park, Jeff Andrew was the 10K winner and Bo Minor the one-mile run winner in the Fall Classic sponsored by the Wabash Valley Roadrunners Club on Saturday.
10K results — 1 Jeff Andrew 36:30.1 Top Male, 2 Justin Clapp 37:16.1, 3 Kyle Bays 37:57.8, 4 Dale Righter 38:59.7 Top Male Master, 5 Ben Chastain 39:19.9, 6 Janelle Ralph 39:39.2 Top Female, 7 John Kemper 39:39.4, 8 Mike Morris 40:35.6, 9 Jacob Dyer 40:37.4, 10 Darby Sinders 40:49.9, 11 Mike Morris 40:53.0 Top Male Grand Master, 12 Steve Eckert 41:04.3, 13 Mark Achenbach 41:06.7, 14 Joe Lustig 41:11.0, 15 Paul Clapp 41:11.3, 16 Travis Clapp 41:20.1, 17 David Minor 42:00.0, 18 Charles Minor 42:54.5, 19 Brian Barfger 42:59.0, 20 Benjamin Ralph 43:03.3,
21 Collin Richards 43:18.9, 22 Kiowa Burris 43:56.2, 23 David Wence 43:58.9, 24 Kris Renfro 44:31.2, 25 Carey Christjansen 44:53.0, 26 Aaron Gadberry 45:26.9, 27 Pam Pell 45:42.4, 28 Marlon Query 46:15.6, 29 Carla Yerkes 46:32.6 Top Female Master 30 Jeff Kackley 46:38.8, 31 Mike Lucas 46:49.8, 32 Buddy Green 46:59.0, 33 Daniel Alexanderr 47:07.7, 34 Lacey Morris 47:10.8, 35 Melissa Cunningham 47:24.7, 36 Billy Stines 47:31.1, 37 Butch Bosworth 47:57.9, 38 Pamela Gresham 48:26.5, 39 Ron Richards 48:30.6, 40 Alex Curry 48:52.4,
41 Summer Drake 48:57.8, 42 Samantha Poole 49:04.7, 43 Brent Poole 49:06.2, 44 Greg Ber 49:24.2, 45 Scott Ealy 49:33.5, 46 Matt Sebastian 49:47.2, 47 Samantha Crosby 49:55.4, 48 Douglas Dreher 50:50.6, 49 Louie Brown 51:39.4, 50 Sheri Walters 51:48.9, 51 Heidi Mattick 52:17.9, 52 Zachary Babyak 52:20.7, 53 Daniel Kieffer 52:25.6, 54 Jessica Atkins 52:41.3, 55 Chris Waters 52:50.3, 56 Janice Van Vactor 53:24.9 Top Female Grand Master 57 John Sheldon 53:41.1, 58 Katie Cammack 54:12.8, 59 Deborah Walter 54:16.7, 60 Victor Plano 54:19.5,
61 Amber Crooks 54:22.7, 62 Ellie Caldwell 54:23.1,63 Mark Hill 54:29.3, 64 Dan Watson 54:29.8, 65 Cheryl Beeson-Smith 54:42.0, 66 Robert Russell 55:14.3, 67 Crystal Clapp 55:27.7, 68 Myra Bosworth 55:52.2, 69 Marvin Malone 55:52.5, 70 Lee Reberger 56:32.3, 71 Sean Dickerson 56:32.3, 72 John Dickerson 56:34.1, 73 Sharon Nelson 56:48.5, 74 Chuck Bucher 58:11.4, 75 Carol Pabst 58:36.4, 76 Erin West 58:49.3, 77 Robin Papariella 59:52.2, 78 Shelley Feagley 59:52.9, 79 Terri Kelly 1:00:15.8, 80 Kim Brown 1:00:35.7,
81 Scott Isles 1:00:39.6, 82 Pat Waters 1:00:43.0, 83 Zac Otte 1:00:50.2, 84 Doug West 1:00:52.2, 85 Denae Whittington 1:01:19.0, 86 Kelly Layne 1:02:07.6, 87 Jody Nevins 1:02:39.5, 88 Jennifer Leturgez 1:02:52.4, 89 Thomas Carroll 1:04:06.5, 90 Mark Spelbring 1:04:29.9, 91 Janet Otte 1:06:40.2, 92 Lesley Wilson 1:07:58.9, 93 Linda Morris 1:10:37.4, 94 Deborah Abrams 1:11:19.5, 95 Bekki Cahill 1:16:04.7, 96 Larry Meddles 1:16:17.2, 97 Sarah Reiter 1:17:56.2, 98 Diane Brown 1:24:19.3 55-59.
One-mile results — 1 Bo Minor 6:55.3. 2 Christopher Clapp 7:22.8. 3 Griffin Poore 8:44.2. 4 Brayden Poore 8:58.9. 5 Evan Faro 9:09.9. 6 Tia Bennett-Faro 9:10.3. 7 Ian Gadberry 9:37.8.8 Joshua Wence 10:01.7. 9 Brock Minor 10:03.3.10 Debbie Johnson 14:55.3. 11 Carole Drake 14:55.4. 12 Gropp, Therese 14:55.5
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