Scots Prepping for Next Week’s All-Ohio Meet

Sarah Appleton

After getting a preview of the course during last week's meet which will be used for this season’s NCAA regional meet, The College of Wooster men’s and women’s harriers will be off from competition until next Friday’s All-Ohio Intercollegiate Cross Country Championships. The meet annually brings together 40-plus NCAA Divs. I, II, and III schools and NAIA institutions from across the state, as between 250-to-300 individual runners will compete at the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio. The men’s competition will be an 8K, while the women will race 5,000 meters. 

Last Week: On Sept. 27, both Wooster teams finished in 13th-place at the highly-competitive Otterbein Invitational. The men’s field consisted of 21 teams and the women included 23.

In the women’s 6K, freshman Sarah Appleton (Portsmouth, Ohio / Notre Dame) led the Scots for the first time in her career while placing 41st overall with a time of 23:42.8. Suzanne Capehart (Herndon, Va. / Oakton) was not far behind, finishing 49th (23:53.8), while a trio of seniors in Emily Elderbrock (Ashland, Ohio / Ashland), Becca Thomas (Elyria, Ohio / Elyria), and Anna Gil (San Francisco, Calif. / Lick-Wilmerding) completed Wooster’s scoring. They ran close together, with Elderbrock in 113th (25:12.7), Thomas in 125th (25:24.3), and Gil in 128th (25:26.8).

The men’s 8K race saw the Scots being paced by junior Terry Workman (Hillsboro, Ohio / Greenfield McClain) and senior Mark DeWine (Cedarville, Ohio / Bishop O’Connell – Va.), who came in 38th (26:12.4) and 54th (26:31.0), respectively. Finishing just outside of the top-100 was up-and-coming Micah Caunter (Mayfield Village, Ohio / Mayfield), as the freshman took 106th (27:18.3), followed relatively closely by junior teammate Rick Workman (Hillsboro, Ohio / Greenfield McClain) in 141st (27:54.8) and senior Brian Loy (Oxford, Ohio / Talawanda) in 154th (28:07.2).