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Issued: November 20, 2004
CALVIN, MOEN REPEAT AS MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS
COLFAX - With three finishers in the top 18 runners, Calvin College (MI) earned the NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championship for the second straight year while Wartburg's (IA) Josh Moen repeated as individual champion here today at the Cross Country Nationals at the Whitetail Golf Course.
Calvin finished with a team score of 107 points after winning last season with 48 points. The team championship is the third for Calvin, with previous victories in 2000 and 2003. North Central College (IL) claimed second place with a score of 137 while UW-La Crosse finished in third place with 148 points. Haverford (PA) and Willamette (OR) rounded out the top five schools with scores of 196 and 209 respectively.
Pacing Calvin for the 2004 championship was Jeff Engbers, who claimed 12th place overall with a time of 25:11.6. The champions also a 17th place finish from Tim Finnegan and an 18th place finish from Dave Haagsma.
After posting six runners in the top 35 last season, Calvin earned five All-Americans this year with five runners in the top 35. No other team had more than three runners in the top 35.
Second place North Central was led by a sixth place finish from senior Pat Rizzo, who finished in a time of 24:56. David Johnson took 11th place overall in North Central's runner-up outcome.
The 2004 NCAA Division III individual championship once again belongs to Moen. The senior runner finished the course in a time of 24:28.7. It is the second straight season that both the men and women champions have hailed from Wartburg, as Missy Buttry also repeated as women's champ. When the pair accomplished the feat last season, it was the first time in history the two individual champions have came from the same school.
More than 13 seconds after Moen finished, the
runner-up crossed the finish line when Williams College's
(MA) Neal Holtschulte crossed the finish line in a time of
24:41.8. Grabbing third place was junior Mike Sawicki from
Otterbein College (OH) with a time of 24:43.4 while Ted Turner
of Geneseo SUNY took fourth in a time of 24:44.6. Rounding
out the top five runners with a time 24:48.4 was Crosby Freeman
out of Pomona-Pitzer (CA).
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