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2022 Pac 12 Championships' thread - CROSS COUNTRY (Riverside, CA; Friday, 10/28; Women's race - 9:40 AM MT, Men's - 10:40 AM)

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(Obviously early for this thread with the Championships 9 days away, but saw the interview I'll be putting in the 2nd post below was published, so decided to post this now.)

Buff cross country begins its post-season next Friday, 10/28, as it heads to Riverside for this year's version of Pac 12's. (If the traffic is bad, the Buffs could maybe get to the races quicker fom Boulder than host USC.)

Heading in, looks like the Buffs are lower ranked than normal (Although still much higher than any Buff team sport), as they are now nationally ranked #10 on the men's side and the women are at #11. For the men, that places them behind #1 ranked Stanford, with Oregon (#15) and Washington (#20) also in the Top 30. The other Pac 12 women's teams ranked are Stanford (9), Utah (10), Oregon (tied for 12th), Washington (19) and Oregon State (30).

Go Buffs!!!

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Championships links (will fill any of them missing as they become available):

Pac 12 homepage - https://pac-12.com/2022-pac-12-cross-country-championships

Host (USC's) homepage - Not available right now.

Coaches' Association general Conference Championships homepage - http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/conference-championships-central

CU notes - Not available as I type this.

Link to link to live results (Direct link not available as I type this.) - https://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/ . (Not working right now, but the Coaches' Ass'n. Conference Championships homepage has https://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/meets/10980/events as the direct link.)

Live coverage - If like the prior few years, both races are scheduled to be shown live on all Pac 12 Network channels. For those whose Cable/ Satellite/ Cord Cutting subscription includes access to any Pac 12 channels, assume it can also be streamed through a link at https://pac-12.com/cross-country/event/2022/10/28/pac-12-championships .
 
Cubuffs.com preview for today's races, with the women's race less than ~40 minutes away from starting. (The broadcast begins at 9:30 AM MT.)

Coverage will be on all Pac 12 Network channels.




Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/10/25/cross-country-cu-ready-to-defend-pac-12-titles.aspx

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BOULDER — The University of Colorado cross country program heads to Riverside, Calif., this Friday to compete in the 2022 Pac-12 Cross Country Championships, seeking to defend their titles from 2021.

The Buffs enter the race ranked 10th in the NCAA on the men's side and 11th on the women's. The men are seeking to upset the No.1 Stanford in the 8k race that begins at 10:40 a.m. MT, while the women will be in a three-way dogfight with Utah and Stanford in the 6K race at 9:40 a.m. MT. The race will be held at the UC-Riverside course, but hosted by Southern California.

The women's race is tight based on rankings with Stanford at nine, Utah ranking 10th and the CU women 11th. Additionally, Oregon is tied for 12th with Georgetown. At Nuttycombe, the women finished in that exact order with Stanford seventh, Utah eighth, the Buffs ninth, then Oregon 11th with Georgetown in between.

The women's race is so close, the top three teams could be separated by less than three points. If the Nuttycombe results from the six Pac-12 teams in attendance were turned into a Pac-12 race, Colorado would've scored 67, followed by Utah at 68 and Stanford at 69. Both of the Washington schools have strong women that did not race at Nuttycombe that could disrupt the placement for those top-three teams.

Colorado's Bailey Hertenstein was the second Pac-12 finisher in the women's race behind Oregon State's Kaylee Mitchell with Utah's Emily Venters one position behind Hertenstein. The next closest Pac-12 athlete was Oregon State's Grace Fetherstonhaugh. The race for the top will be crucial for the team with everything so close. The Buffs are also hoping to have Emily Covert and Ella Baran up in the mix in the front. The CU women have finished with the same order at both the Cowboy Jamboree and Nuttycombe with Kaitlyn Barthell running fourth for the Buffs and Gabrielle Orie fifth. Both ladies will be extremely important in a close race to pass as many runners as possible. They will be joined by Carley Bennett and Alisa Meraz-Fishbein who will look to displace runners in the scoring and help the women secure their second-straight Pac-12 Championship.

The men's team is second in the national rankings in the Pac-12 behind No.1 Stanford. CU is ranked 10th followed by Oregon at 15th and Washington at 20th. Those four teams all met at Nuttycombe, and if those four were the only teams scored the Buffs would've finished second behind Stanford.

The Buffs men have not had the opportunity to have a full squad go yet this season. At the Cowboy Jamboree, Austin Vancil sat out of the race while Andrew Kent placed eighth overall. At Nuttycombe, Vancil led the squad despite taking a spike to the foot during the race. Kent unfortunately did not feel well and had an off race. The men are looking to have those two, along with veterans Charlie Sweeney, Brendan Fraser and Seth Hirsch lead the way for CU. The team will also have some younger runners looking to mix up the scoring with James Overberg, Lukas Haug, Noah Hibbard, Jace Aschbrenner and Hunter Appleton all suiting up this weekend.

Both races will be streamed on the Pac-12 Network with live results here.
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The Buffs still have 5 runners in the front group. (Not great they don't have more through the 1st (2 KM) timing point.
 
Wow - the women's race finished TIGHT. Scoring still not official, but unofficially the Buffs finish tied with Utah in points, but if it stays that way the Buffs would be champions based on the tie breaker. That is by comparing the individual finishers of the top 5, and since the top 3 Buffs finished 1-3-7 vs. Utah's 2-5-17,, the Buffs would win 3-2.

Congrats to Bailey Hertenstein for the individual win, and Emily Covert for finishing 3rd after making a STRONG move approximately 1/2 way in to make it a fast race. (Per the announcers, Ms. Hertenstein's time is a course record.)
 
Based on the 1st tweet below, assume the race is now official. (The timing DOES show the points ended in a 66-66 tie with Utah, but the Buffs won the tiebreaker.)

Way to go Buffs!!!




 
The Buff men are a (distant) 3rd, behind Washington and favorite Stanford, early on (after the 1st 2K time check).
 
At the halfway point, the Buffs are up to 2nd. (Top ranked Stanford with 5 in the top 6 for the big lead.)
 
Looking like the #1 ranked Cardinal with the dominating win, with 6 finishing in the top 10, but the Buffs finish solidly in 2nd (with Washington many points behind in 3rd).

Individually, Buff Andrew Kent was their top finisher in 4th overall.
 
Media after today's races:

Article-



Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2022/10/28...nd-title-behind-hertenstein-championship.aspx

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of Colorado women's cross country team defended its Pac-12 Championship here Friday morning, defeating Utah in a tiebreaker behind Bailey Hertenstein's individual championship.

The No. 11 CU women picked up their sixth Pac-12 title in program history with 66 points, tying No.10 Utah while defeating No.9 Stanford in the upset. The women won based on the NCAA tiebreaker, picking up four individual runners ahead of Utah's comparable runners.

"I don't know that we've ever won an important race on a tied score and a tiebreaker in all my time at Colorado," said head coach Mark Wetmore. "The tie-breaking system evolves and hallelujah for this modern system, because it got us the win. Bailey was down about 15 or 20 meters with five or 600 meters to go. Had that position not changed, we would have lost so not only did she catch the leader for the individual win, but she caught the leader to make the team win."

The duo of Bailey Hertenstein and Emily Covert led the way, trading leads throughout the race. Covert took the lead at the 4K mark with Hertenstein in third as the Buffs trailed only Oregon. In the final 400 meters, Hertenstein passed Utah's Emily Venters for the win in a new course record of 19:11.3. Covert finished third in 19:23.8, followed by Ella Baran who passed six runners to finish seventh in 19:33.3.

Possibly the most important pass came in the final stretch where Kaitlyn Barthell passed Utah's Ariel Keklak to finish 16th in 19:45.5. That pass made the tiebreaker possible with the top-three already securing the tiebreak. Gabrielle Orie finished out the scoring running 20:20.6.

"Emily ran great," said Wetmore. "She's had some interruptions earlier in the season but is getting fitter by the day. She took the lead early in this race. She was a little disappointed and apologetic afterward and I said I don't want to take that out of her. I want her to stay aggressive. I want her to think like a winner. So it may have been a slightly impetuous move, but she was third so great run for her. Ella Baran is learning this level of running and getting better every race and Kaitlyn had the best race ever for Colorado. Kaitlyn was wonderful today. As much as Bailey won it for us, probably Kaitlyn did too."

The women defend their title and go back-to-back in team and individual titles after Abby Nichols and Covert led the Buffs last year.

In the men's race, Andrew Kent led the way with a fourth-place finish in 22:43.9. The Buffs' pack running was strong as the team had seven runners in the top-19 halfway through the race and finished with six in the top-20 finish. Austin Vancil finished 12th in 23:07.6, followed by Noah Hibbard who had an incredible race in 13th at 23:12.6. Seth Hirsch was right behind in 14th at 23:13.6, with Hunter Appleton rounding out the scoring at 18th at 23:17.7.

The men finished with 61 points, falling to top-ranked Stanford who finished with 22 points. Washington came in third with 81 points.

"We came here knowing that Stanford was very, very good," said Wetmore. "Knowing that we would need a miracle from us and a negative miracle from them. We didn't get that. But we got a very good day for us. Noah ran his best race ever for us. Hunter ran his best race ever. Seth was solid. Brendan was solid. And of course, Andy was the Andy that we knew was in him. We didn't get that two weeks ago. He's been hanging his head for two weeks, and today he showed what he is. Really good run for five or six of our guys. We know we're better than 10th in the NCAA. We know that the women are better than 11th. I think the rankings will reflect that on Tuesday."

Colorado returns to action in two weeks at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championships in Albuquerque where the team will set its sights on advancing to the 2022 NCAA Championships.

"Well, the regional meet is always a competition to see who can run as easily as they can and advance," said Wetmore. "So New Mexico, BYU, Northern Arizona, Utah, Colorado, they're all real good teams. Everybody will be looking around, just calculating the score and trying to get to the nationals as carefully as possible. Like all of those other coaches, I don't mind if we're first and I don't mind if we're fifth, as long as we advance. That'll be the plan in two weeks. Then at the nationals, it's a different animal. This race is 101 runners, in that race is nearly 300 runners. So we'll keep getting better. We'll keep working hard. We'll keep gathering data making new plans and hope to be a lot better at the NCAA than we were at Nuttycombe."

PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

Women's Team Results: 1. Colorado 66*; 2. Utah 66; 3. Oregon 86; 4. Stanford 93; 5. Washington 94; 6. Oregon State 152; 7. Washington State 160; 8. UCLA 214; 9. Arizona 256; 10. California 311; 11. ASU 314; 12. USC 379
*Won on NCAA Tiebreaker
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Men's Team Results: 1. Stanford 22; 2. Colorado 61; 3. Washington 81; 4. Oregon 94; 5. UCLA 142; 6. WSU 177; 7. Arizona 213; 8. ASU 222; 9. California 262.
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Full results:
Women's - https://www.finishedresults.com/files/2022/XC/10-28-2022-Pac-12-Conference-Championships/1.pdf
Men's - https://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/meets/10980/events/6618

Pac 12 Network Highlights of the 2 races and interview with the Buff women's winner:







 
Congrats to the 2 for receiving the biggest conference awards, along with the others who won All-Conference honors!

 
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