Panthers Take Second At League Cross Country Championships
VALPARAISO, Ind. (Oct. 27, 2007) - Senior Holly Nearman took fourth to lead four Panthers on all-league teams and guide the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's cross country team to a second-place finish at the 2007 Horizon League Championships Saturday. UWM scored 60 points to finish behind just Butler with 33 points and ahead of Loyola in third with 62. Host Valparaiso was fourth with 118 points and UIC fifth with 145. Detroit headed the second-half of the 10-team field, taking sixth with 196 points to edge Green Bay with 198 in seventh place. Wright State (210 points), Cleveland State (225) and Youngstown State (233) completed the field. Milwaukee head coach Pete Corfeld was named the League Coach of the Year, his first such honor for cross country since 1993 when the Panthers were a member of the Mid-Continent Conference. Nearman repeated on the all-league first team with her fourth-place finish, crossing the line in 18:15, just two seconds out of third. Junior Erin Magargee narrowly missed first-team all-league status, finishing six seconds out of seventh in eighth place with a time of 19:04. Senior Angie Huebner and sophomore Abbie Zaspel also made the all-league
second team. Huebner was 12th for the second-straight year, running a time
of 19:15. Zaspel took 13th with a time of 19:21. Junior Liz Bothen rounded
out the scoring runners for Milwaukee, taking 23rd with a time of 20:28.
Freshman Hannah Willis and sophomore Laura Ring were also in the top seventh, with Willis taking 28th in 20:20. Ring was three seconds back in 20:23 for a 30th-place finish. |
