BREA, Calif. -
Riley Capuano was the individual champion, while
Sadie Drucker (second),
Angie Gushue (fourth) and
Revere Schmidt (sixth) added top-10 finishes as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's cross country team won its 14th straight SCIAC title with a dominant performance at the league championships on Saturday morning at Carbon Canyon Park.
Olivia Smith was the fifth scorer for CMS in 23rd place to clinch the league title for the Athenas with 34 points, while Pomona-Pitzer was second with 64 points.
Capuano pulled away at the end of the race to win by three seconds with a final time of 21:57.8.
Sadie Drucker moved up into second in the closing stretch as well, earning a time of 22:00.8, while Annika Carlson of Chapman, who stayed close to Capuano through most of the race, ended in third with a 22:05.6.
Gushue was the fourth competitor to cross the line in 22:05.6 and after Jenna LeNay crossed in 22:17.5 for Occidental, Schmidt made it four Athenas in the top six with a time of 22.29.3.
After Smith crossed the line in 23rd place, CMS ahd three other top-30 finishers, with
Olivia Backholm coming in 26th place,
Sally Gaskell in 28th, and Talia Green in 29th.
Jamie Habib (33rd),
Amelia Opsahl (34th),
Phoebe Wolfe Lyons (37th) and
Brannan Rosenfeld (40th) earned top-40 finishes.
CMS will be back in action in two weeks when it competes at the NCAA Division III Regionals, hoping to secure an automatic bid to nationals, where it came in fourth a year ago.