Regals Finish 16th at NCAA West Regional

CLAREMONT, Calif. - With all but one of the top five scoring times earned by freshmen and sophomore harriers, Cal Lutheran ended its season with a 16th-place finish at Saturday's NCAA West Regional.

Results: NCAA West Regional (Women)

Recording the fastest CLU individual time of the morning, senior Toccoa Kahovec earned the right to participate in next Saturday's NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships by completing the campus course at Pomona-Pitzer in with her sixth-place time of 21:51.0.

By virtue of recording one of the top eight individual times at the West Regional, Kahovec will compete at the national championships for the second straight season.

Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Kahovec's final race as a Cal Lutheran harrier will take place on Saturday, Nov. 19, on the 6k course at the Lake Breeze Golf Course in Winneconne, Wis.

In addition to Kahovec, three of the five times used to calculate CLU's overall score were clocked by freshmen. Participating in their first-ever regional, Taelor Young, Chelsea Feller, and Amanda Miller ended Saturday's event with the second, third, and fifth-fastest individual efforts for the Regals.

Completing the course in 24:03.8, 24:44.8, and 25:00.7, the group of freshmen, Kahovec, and sophomore Natalie Bullock's time of 24:48.5 helped the Regals finish 16th out of the 21 teams that competed.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps captured one of two bids to next weekend's championships by ending Saturday's meet in first place nearly 100 points ahead of Willamette, the recipient of the regional's other automatic team bid.

Pomona-Pitzer's Annie Lydens was responsible for the fastest individual effort of the morning, completing her home course in 21:26.1.