Lady Bison Win Land Run

EDMOND – Oklahoma Baptist scored a win in the first cross country race of the season at the Central Oklahoma Land Run's women's race before the OBU men took fifth in the men's event.
 
The Lady Bison won with 34 points and won by 27. NAIA fourth-ranked Oklahoma City was second at 61 and Midwestern State was third at 66.
 
OBU redshirt Abby Hoover ran unattached and won at 18:14.
 
The Lady Bison scorers were Emily Sechrist in fifth at 18:48, Kaylee Large in sixth at 18:54, Sydney Lawrence in eighth at 19:11, Daisy VanMeter in ninth at 19:17 and Kandace Standridge in 11^th at 19:32.
 
OBU placeholders were Zoya Timoshenko in 17^th at 19:41 and Victoria Joslin in 24^th at 20:01.
 
Also for the Lady Bison were Megan Allen at 20:24, Lauren Franz at 21:02, Miranda Nolen at 21:32, Mya Hudgins at 22:22, Emily Banks at 22:29, Samantha Sweeney at 22:35, Dani Ingle at 24:47 and Ashley Ellis at 25:18.
 
Oklahoma Christian was fourth in the team standings at 108. Southwestern Oklahoma State, fourth in the GAC preseason poll, was fifth at 116, GAC No. 2 East Central was sixth at 169, followed by Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State, Rogers State, Texas Wesleyan and Northwestern Oklahoma State.
 
In the men's race Jacob Janzen was eighth at 20:46. Blaine Whitson was 19^th t 21:33, DeAngelo Robles was 21^st at 21:36, Nathan Crowson was 33^rd at 22:16 and Grant Alexander rounded out the scoring at 22:19 for 34^th place.
 
Tommy Uglean (47^th, 22:48) and Hunter Doucette (55^th, 25:04) were the placeholders for the men's team.
 
Rogers State won the men's race with 48 points, followed by Oklahoma Christian with 52 points, Oklahoma City with 56, GAC No. 1 East Central at 106, OBU at 111, Arkansas-Fort Smith at 144 and NWOSU at 224.
 
OBU returns to action next Saturday at the GAC Preview in Durant.