INDEPENDENCE, Ore. – The Pacific cross country teams spent homecoming Saturday racing at the George Oja Invitational at Oak Knoll Golf Course, hosted by Linfield University.
The men started out the day hot in their second 8k of the season. Sophomore Elias Bradbury was Pacific's top finisher, running a personal best time of 26:12.8 and finishing in 152nd out of 399 finishers. The next two Boxer finishers also ran very well. Juniors RJ Lydon and Tathan Woodward both finished within 15 seconds of their personal bests, running 27:15.3 and 27:28.7 respectively.
The Pacific men finished 28th out 32 teams, ahead of Pacific Lutheran by 78 points.
Following the men's race, the women took to the course for the 6k race. The performance of the day was ran by graduate student
Ria Gill, who finished in 19th place in a time 21:38.9. This was a personal best of 28 seconds and Gill now sits #2 All Time on the Pacific Top 25 List. Freshman
Emily Davidson continues a strong first collegiate season by finishing in 166th with a time of 24:32.3. Senior
Jordan Lucero was third in for Pacific with a time 25:33.4.
The Pacific women finished 23th as a team out of 29 teams, and were 6th out of the 9 NWC teams.
Up Next
Pacific will head back to Independence, Ore. on October 31th for the Northwest Conference Championships.
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