Oct. 16, 2004
Final Stats
Las Vegas - Michele Suszek finished in second place to lead the Rebel women's cross country team to a third-place finish at the UNLV Invite held at Floyd Lamb State Park on Saturday morning.
Taffanie Marley of the University of San Diego won the 6k women's race with a time of 18:40.51, more than 12 seconds ahead of Suszek who crossed the finish line in 18:53.21. Cassandra Chavez of USD came in third with a time of 18:58.89, Christal Cuadra of San Diego State was fourth with a time 19:35.87 and Anna Attano of Golden West College finished fifth with a time of 20:14.53.
The first-third finish of Marley and Chavez carried USD to the team championship as it scored a meet-low 36 points. San Diego State was second with 49 points, UNLV ws third with 57 points, Golden West came in fourth with 106 points and Cal State University Dominguez Hills finished in fifth with 127 points.
Samantha Serrano came in 11th (20:40.17), Ashley Pierce was 12th (20:41.09), Heather Walsh came in 15th (20:48.04) and Sarah Loughlin came across the finish line in 17th (20:52.48) to round out UNLV's top-five.
Other UNLV runners that participated were Erin Hammond (18th, 20:58.29), Leta Rose (23rd, 21:19.89), Colleen O'Brien (33rd, 22:13.95), Deanna Appuglise (37th, 23:05.53), Terri Trautwein (42, 24:30.91), Christine Spence (43rd, 25:05.25) and Teann Hemmans (48th, 28:04.22).
In the men's 8k race, Dennis Sheehan of USD won the individual championship in a time of 25:21.57. Citrus College won the team title with 28 points, one point ahead of USD, which had 29. Golden West College was third with 75 points.
The Rebels will have next weekend off before running in the Mountain West Conference Championships in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 30.
