Box Score Greensboro, N.C. - Trinity University Tigers
junior Caitlin Masse of Katy, Texas (Cinco Ranch), won
the NCAA Division III South/Southeast Region Women's Cross Country
Championship Saturday, by 30 seconds over the nearest competitor on
the muddy course.
Masse captured the 6k regional race with a time of 22:56, and
qualified for next Saturday's NCAA Championship meet in Highland
Hills, Ohio. She also earned All-Region honors following her
course-breaking time on the Guilford College route.
Tiger senior Bryant
Wright of Tulsa, Okla. (Holland Hall), was a men's NCAA
qualifier, with a seventh-place finish and time of 27:21 on the 8k
course. Wright, who was one second behind the sixth-place runner,
is making his second straight trip to nationals.
Trinity's men placed third of 24 teams at the regional, with
four Tiger runners earning All-Region recognition (top 35
finishers), including Wright. Trinity scored 110 points, just eight
behind second-place Lynchburg. The Tigers were seventh at the 2008
regional.
Senior Chass Armstrong of Boerne, Texas (Boerne),
placed 14th (27:43), and missed the NCAA cut by 12
seconds. Junior Zach Brush of Edmond, Okla. (Edmond North), was
No. 22 (28:17); and sophomore Robert Edmonds of San Antonio (Health Careers)
finished in the No. 30 slot (28:38).
Trinity's women captured last year's regional, held at Texas
Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas. It marked the second time in
school history the Tigers took the regional title. The unranked
Tigers went on to the NCAA Championships at Hanover, Ind., where
they finished sixth as a team.
This year, the Tigers placed 12th of 27 teams at the
Regional. Krissy Ford, a junior from Jackson, Miss., (St.
Andrew's Episcopal), finished the race at No. 57 (26:02).
The top two teams, and seven individuals not on the qualifying
teams, advanced to next week's nationals hosted by Baldwin-Wallace
College.
