Montana State Bobcats

    GREELY, Colo.--The Montana State men's cross country team placed second in the Big Sky Conference Championships at Greely, Colorado today. Due to bad weather, the 8k race was postponed one hour and ran at 11:00 a.m. Junior Nick Atwood placed fourth and sophomore Patrick Casey placed eighth, both winning all-conference honors.

"I've never seen a course in such bad condition," head MSU coach Dale Kennedy said. "The first part of the course was on a hill and was pretty much a mud field."

Senior Matt Adams just missed all-conference honors placing 12th. Senior Graydon Curry placed 20th , and senior Carl Nystuen placed 25th.

"Matt went out hard at the beginning of the race and led for quite a bit of the race but I think that first muddy hill took a lot out of him," Kennedy said.

"Northern Arizona didn't surprise anyone winning the meet," Kennedy said, "but the battle for second through fourth was exciting."

Montana State placed second with 68 points, University of Montana placed third with 76 and Weber State placed fourth with 91. Weber had been picked in the pre-season coaches poll to place second.

The MSU women placed sixth, the same place as last year's championship. They were led by sophomore Heather Haug, who placed 14th. She was followed by Kala Jauquet who placed 30th.


  Montana State University  Men               (  26:25.42  2:12:07.10)
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  1      4  Nick Atwood Jr                      25:46.26
  2      9  Patrick Casey So                    26:02.91
  3     12  Matthew Atkinson-Adams Sr           26:22.41
  4     19  Graydon Curry Sr                    26:52.96
  5     24  Carl Nystuen Jr                     27:02.56
  6   ( 26) Daniel Jackson So                   27:07.51
  7   ( 30) Tyler Noland So                     27:21.36

 Montana State University Women                (  21:20.73  1:46:43.65)
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  1     14  Heather Haug So                     20:24.30
  2     30  Kala Jauquet Jr                     21:07.35
  3     33  Corrine Malcolm So                  21:29.05
  4     39  Rebecca Sorenson So                 21:42.65
  5     46  Morgan Dunley Jr                    22:00.30
  6   ( 48) Tara Will Fr                        22:09.35
  7   ( 54) Larkin Guenther Fr                  22:26.85