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HCC Sports Information
Saturday, September 15, 2007
MCPHERSON – Freshman Amber Kerschen
was the top Hutchinson Community College women’s cross country
runner for the second-straight week and helped the Lady Dragons to a
tie for second at the McPherson College Invitational on Saturday at
a soggy McPherson Country Club.
A heavy rain doused the course and
finally let up just before race time, although the women’s race was
contested in a drizzle or light rain.
The Lady Dragons tied Bethel College
for second with 75 team points. Friends University ran away with the
team title, placing four in the Top 6 to score 30 points.
Bethel had three runners finish in
the Top 10, compared to HCC’s one. The Lady Dragons made up the
difference with their fourth, fifth and sixth-place runners. The
worst place of Hutchinson’s scoring times was 23rd. Bethel had two
placers finish 24th and 32nd.
HCC’s average time was 23:06.48.
Bethel’s average time was 23:19.88.
Kerschen just missed breaking the
22-minute mark, running a seventh-place time of 22:01.40 for her
first career Top-10 finish. She improved her season-opening time by
eight seconds in the adverse conditions.
Freshman Andrea Scheuerman also
improved her season-opening time by 12 seconds with an 11th-place
finish in 22:22.30. Sophomore Danielle Hatfield also improved over
her Friends University Invitational time with a 15th-place showing
in 23:08.80, 16 full seconds better than last week.
Freshman Mychala Money improved a
full 2 minutes from last week, finishing 20th in 23:44.60. Freshman
Natalie Marshall as 24th in 24:15.30, an improvement of 17 seconds.
Sophomore Kristin Torres was 28th in 24:31.00, an improvement of
1:10 over last week.
Other Lady Dragon performances were:
sophomore Amanda Young (30th, 24:34.70), freshman Ashley Dunham
(33rd, 25:40.20) and freshman Kimberly Knight (34th, 25:59.00).
The Lady Dragons travel to the Tabor
College Invitational on Saturday at Cottonwood Point at Marion
Reservoir near Hillsboro. The men’s race is scheduled to start at 10
a.m.
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