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WXC: Forbes Leads Owls to Fourth Place Finish at C-USA Championships
11/2/2019 1:33:00 PM | Women's Cross Country
Freshman joins Patel as All-Conference performers
BOWLING GREEN, KY - The Rice Owls women's cross country team placed fourth overall at Saturday's Conference USA Championships, hosted by WKU at Kereiakes Park.
The Owls racked up 97 points while Middle Tennessee won the league title with 42 points, followed by Southern Miss (74 points) and UTEP (84 points).
Rice was led by freshman Grace Forbes, who placed fifth overall (17:09) and took home Freshman of the Meet honors. Forbes shared All-Conference USA honors with senior Khayla Patel, who placed 10th overall with a time of 17:36 to earn a spot on the second team.
Junior Lourdes Vivas de Lorenzi just missed out on All-CUSA accolades, finishing 23rd (18:22) while sophomore Alyssa Balandran was 26th overall (18:23). Freshman Rachel Shoemaker rounded out the Owls top five runners with a 33rd place result (18:29) while the rest of the Rice runners finished in this order: Mary Claire Neal (44th-18:50), Ashley Messineo (48th-18:57), Loren Goddard (70th-19:29), and Natalie Goddard (73rd-19:36).
"Our ladies competed hard today and had some outstanding performances, highlighted by Grace receiving first team honors and Freshman of the Meet. She ran a personal best for 5k today and was awesome. Khayla, our only senior, had her best conference performance. I was proud of Lourdes' effort after fighting back from injury to be our third runner and we got an outstanding effort from Alyssa and Rachel. The conference keeps getting tougher in depth. We're looking forward to our regional meet in two weeks."
Next up for the Owls is the NCAA South Central Regional, which will be held Nov. 15 in Fayetteville, Ark. hosted by Arkansas.That race is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.
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