Scots Second Meet of Year at Walsh This Saturday

Emily Elderbrock

The College of Wooster cross country teams will have their second team-scored competition of the 2008 season this week, as the Fighting Scots are headed to the Ric Sayre Invitational, hosted by Walsh University, on Saturday, Sept. 13. The women’s 5000-meter run will take place first at 10 a.m., while the men’s race will cover 8000 meters, starting at 10:45 a.m. The field is expected to consist of seven schools – Cuyahoga Community College, Gannon University, John Carroll University, Ohio Dominican University, Ursuline College, Walsh, and Wooster. 

Last Meet: On Aug. 29, both Wooster teams finished in third-place while kicking off the school’s 2008-09 athletic calendar with the five-team Wooster Invitational at L.C. Boles Memorial Golf Course.

Behind a pair of top-10 individual performances, the Scot women’s squad scored 59 points, just out of reach of Kenyon College (32) as well as Edinboro University (37), but well ahead of Hiram College and Lake Erie College. Suzanne Capehart (Herndon, Va. / Oakton) picked up where she left off last season, as the sophomore and all-North Coast Athletic Conference standout crossed seventh overall, just in front of freshman teammate Sarah Appleton (Portsmouth, Ohio / Notre Dame), who had a solid eighth-place debut. They ran identical times of 16:27 over the 4K course. Completing the scoring for Wooster were senior Emily Elderbrock (Ashland, Ohio / Ashland), freshman Meredith Shaul (Akron, Ohio / Firestone), and sophomore Chelsea Fisher (Metuchen, N.J. / Metuchen), who finished 14th (16:59), 20th (17:24), and 21st (17:27), respectively.

Edinboro, an NCAA Div. II power, controlled the men’s 6200-meter event, as it took the top-five individual places for 15 points. Kenyon was next (50), followed by the Scots (74), Hiram (118), and Lake Erie. Junior Terry Workman (Hillsboro, Ohio / Greenfield McClain) led the way for the hosts via a seventh-place showing in a time of 21:18, while senior Mark DeWine (Cedarville, Ohio / Bishop O’Connell – Va.) and junior Rick Workman (Hillsboro, Ohio / Greenfield McClain) ended up 13th (21:52) and 18th (22:21), respectively. Rounding out Wooster’s scoring were freshman Ethan Rudawsky (Wooster, Ohio / Wooster) and senior Bryan Loy (Oxford, Ohio / Talawanda). They were together at the finish line, with Rudawsky 23rd (22:43) and Loy 24th (22:44).