Cross Country | 8/31/2019 12:07:00 PM
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Junior
Makayla Lawler raced to individual titlist honors Saturday morning at the annual Monarch Classic, and her teammates helped add the women's 6-kilometer team title to the day's haul at the opening cross country meet of the season for host Methodist University.
In the second race of the morning, Monarch freshman
Andrew Topoly placed second overall in the men's 8K race. He and his teammates finished second overall, just three points shy of the team champions from North Carolina Wesleyan University.
JUST THE FACTS
Women's 6K team results, top 3: 1 – Methodist, 26 points; 2 – N.C. Wesleyan, 46 pts.; 3 – Meredith College (55 pts.)
Women's 6K individual results, top 3: 1 – Lawler (Methodist), 25:33.20; 2 –
Courtney Drumm (Methodist), 26:21.46; 3 – Julie Tonon (Meredith), 27:56.15
Men's 8K team results, top 3: 1 – N.C. Wesleyan, 26 pts.; 2 – Methodist, 29 pts.; 3 – Central Carolina CC, 85 pts.
Men's 8K individual results, top 3: 1 – Clark Harney (Piedmont International), 29:07.82; 2 – Topoly (Methodist), 29:13.64; 3 – Connor Hayes (N.C. Wesleyan), 29:18.15
HOW IT HAPPENED
- In the women's race, Lawler and Drumm broke away from the rest of the pack within the first half mile, with Lawler then gaining some distance over Drumm within the next half mile.
- Lawler finished with a 48-second cushion over Drumm, who ended with a 35-second advantage over N.C. Wesleyan's Tonon.
- Topoly paced the leaders for more than half of the men's 8K, but early in the final mile was passed by both Harney and Hayes. Over the last half mile of the race, however, Topoly reeled in and passed Hayes, but was not able to finish the rally against Harney, finishing just six seconds behind the race winner.
RACE NOTES
NEXT UP
Both the men and women will travel to Salisbury, N.C., and Catawba College for the Fleet Feet Cross Country Invite on Saturday, September 7.
