CLAREMONT, Calif. - Elle Marysla earned the individual title, and the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's cross country team had five of the top six finishers, as it earned its 15th straight SCIAC title with a dominant performance on Saturday at the Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country course.
Marsyla was followed by
Riley Capuano and
Hope Dragseth in second and third place, while
Sara Wexler came in fifth and
Sadie Drucker sixth, as the Athenas earned 17 points, just two over the best-possible score of 15. Pomona-Pitzer came in second with 50 points while Occidental was third with 104.
Marsyla finished with a time of 21:39.2 to win her first SCIAC individual championship, while Capuano, last year's winner finished in 21:44.0. Dragseth crossed the line in third in 21:49.7, while Wexler finished in 21:53.7. Drucker came in just under 22 minutes in 21:59.7 and edged Brenda Daza of Chapman in seventh, who finished in 21:59.8.
Brannan Rosenfeld was also a first-team All-SCIAC selection with a time of 22:11.2.
Olivia Backholm (13th) and
Mia Voce (14th) earned second-team All-SCIAC honors.
The Athenas also had six other runners finish in the top 32, with
Rosemary McManus taking 21st, Talia Green in 24th,
Sienna Faidi in 27th, and then three Athenas in a row crossed in 29th (Sophia Saleh), 30th (
Jenna Milbrodt) and 31st (
Emily Kendrick).
Mikayla Wesley was 35th, and
Phoebe Wolfe Lyons (39th),
Skye Georgiadis (41st),
Olivia DeBoer (43rd),
Jie Yi Denise Chen (46th),
Chloe Gudas (48th) and
Raquel Flores (49th) were all in the top 50.
CMS will be back in action in two weeks when it returns to the Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country course for the NCAA Division III Regionals on Nov. 15.