{"id":1118,"date":"2009-09-09T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbanhilltop.wpengine.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:09:12","slug":"goins-wins-race-girls-capture-team-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilltop.corban.edu\/sports\/goins-wins-race-girls-capture-team-title","title":{"rendered":"Women Capture Team Title, Men Finish Second"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Corban’s #31 Caleb Goins, Warner Pacific’s Eric Lagerstrom and unattached runner #54 Tahir Chakisso sprint for the finish line in the race’s final 30 yards. Photo by Tanner Froese<\/h5>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Salem, Ore<\/strong>. \u2013 The women and men\u2019s cross country teams finished first and second respectively in the Corban Invitational, which took place for the first time on Corban\u2019s campus Sept. 6 against conference rival Warner Pacific.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The women\u2019s 3K belonged to the Warriors as they placed four runners in the top five. Freshman Lauren Cross and sophomores Courtney Welling and Becca Zanon all finished with top five times. Cross finished fifth overall with a time of 13:11.89, Welling captured fourth by running the 3K in 13:01.72 and Zanon grabbed third with a time of 12:55.96. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But sophomore teammate Amy Renfro finished even quicker.<\/p>\n

Renfro gained first place by claiming the course\u2019s fastest time with a 12:35.95. She beat out unattached runner and former teammate Ali Ghavami by just over three seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like it was a good race,\u201d Renfro said. \u201cI had Ali Ghavami pushing me the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Head Coach Norm Berney was pleased with the team\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a first race out under these kind of conditions, I think we did real well since we are really young,\u201d Berney said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a junior or senior but they still did very well and stayed under control and that was our goal, to keep a controlled race, even more so than winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being just a couple of seconds too slow kept the men\u2019s team from making it a Corban sweep at the home meet. The Warner Pacific Knights\u2019 top seven runners scored a 1:31:51.37 time, while the seven fastest Warriors finished overall with a 1:32:17.94 time.<\/p>\n

However, sophomore Caleb Goins highlighted the day with a mad dash for first place in the 5K.<\/p>\n

Sprinting elbow-to-elbow with Warner Pacific\u2019s Eric Lagerstrom and unattached runner Tahir Chakisso, Goins managed to clinch the lead right before crossing the finish line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like one of those last ditch efforts,\u201d Goins said. \u201cIt\u2019s like \u2018why not\u2019 and just throw back your head and run hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goins didn\u2019t lead the race until a lead pack of Warner Pacific runners mistakenly went off the course and began running into the wrong direction. Seeing their error, Goins took advantage and became the race\u2019s new frontrunner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t say I was overly upset when they did that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, his lead was short lived, for the Warner Pacific runners quickly caught back up and even stayed ahead of him until the final stretch.<\/p>\n

Goins finished with a time of 17:43.65, just 1.05 seconds ahead of Lagerstrom.<\/p>\n

Also contributing to the team were freshmen Jacob Bowdoin, Adrian Taylor and junior Ben Search. Bowdoin, Taylor and Search all finished in the meet\u2019s top ten with times of 18:15.82 (Bowdoin), 18:32.60 (Taylor) and 18:41.09 (Search).<\/p>\n

The Corban Invite succeeded in Berney\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe inaugural event [on-campus race] was just incredible and all the support we got from the school, the faculty, and the administration just made us feel real good about it,\u201d Berney said.<\/p>\n

Kicking off the event before the official races was a 3K race\/walk that was open to all students, faculty and staff. Corban student Joe Summers finished first with Nathan Moller and Vince Rediger coming in second and third.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 12 the cross country teams will be at the Lewis and Clark Invitational in Estacada beginning at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n \t

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