COMING UP: at Lewis-Clark State, Friday, LCSC Cross Country Course (Lewiston Orchards) – Women's 5,000-meters at 1:15 p.m. (PT), Men's 8,000-meters at 2 p.m. (PT)
WATCH LIVE: LCSC Athletics will be providing video coverage of the head-to-head dual between C of I and LC State through their
SIDEARM Sports Video Portal. The video coverage will be free to all fans.
TOP-10 MATCH-UP FOR COYOTE MEN: C of I closes out the fall portion of the season on Friday, traveling to Lewiston for a head-to-head dual meet with Lewis-Clark State. Last year, both Idaho teams finished in the Top-5 at the NAIA Championships – LC State winning the Frontier Conference title and placing third overall, with the Yotes winning the Cascade Conference title and placing fifth. The Warriors opened 2020 ranked No. 3 in the initial NAIA Top-25 poll – returning all seven runners that competed at the 2019 NAIA Championships, including All-Americans Cole Olsen, Clayton VanDyke and Chase Barrow – with C of I starting the season ranked No. 7.
TOP-25 MATCH-UP FOR COYOTE WOMEN: The top-ranked C of I women's team heads to the L-C Valley to race a much-improved LCSC squad. The Warriors finished fourth at the Frontier Conference meet last fall and 18th at the NAIA Championships – including their top finisher from last season, senior Emily Adams, along with former C of I runner, Ciera Bailey. LC State was ranked No. 13 in the preseason NAIA Top-25 poll after ending the 2019 regular season unranked.
HISTORY AT LEWISTON ORCHARDS: It marks the fourth time C of I has raced at Lewiston Orchards, competing each time as part of the Inland Empire Classic, hosted by LC State.
Max Hampton holds the men's 8,000-meter top time of 24:48 in 2015, with
Hillary Holt holding the women's 5,000-meter top time of 16:42 in 2013.
FIRST-EVER WINNERS IN LA GRANDE: C of I opened the season last Friday, racing in muddy conditions at Lane Farms, with both the men's and women's teams picking up wins over Eastern Oregon. For the Coyote men, junior
Ian Jackson had his best race of his career, breaking the 5,000-meter cross country school record with his time of 15:56 – 13 seconds faster than his closest competition. The C of I women had one of their most dominant finishes in program history, as the Yotes recorded eight of the Top-9 finishes in the meet. Headlining the race was
Erin Moyer, picking up the victory with C of I's second-fastest 3,000-meter cross country time (10:26). It marks the tenth-straight year that the Coyote women have had an individual win a race.
RECAPING "DUEL IN THE DIRT": Underclassmen were key for the victory by both teams, as sophomore Brennan Donahue placed third overall (16:11), true freshman
Elias Everist placed fourth (16:12) and sophomore
Will Kracaw took eighth (16:46) to lead the men's squad– with senior
Josh Fritz recording his best-ever finish with a seventh-place effort (16:39). True freshmen
Sage Martin (10:30) and
Ellyse Tingelstad (10:47) each had Top-5 efforts, Martin in second and Tinglestad in fifth, with sophomore
Abbey Shirts placing third (10:35).
AROUND THE CCC: Six other Cascade Conference teams competed last week, as Bushnell University (formerly Northwest Christian) hosted an invitational at Middlefield Golf Course. The Oregon Tech men and women dominated the race – with the men's sweeping the Top-5 behind All-American Mark French, while the OIT women placing all five scoring runners in the Top-10, though Corban's Sydney Nichol winning the 4,000-meter race.
