Kocab Top Finisher for MSUB (10/8/05)

Pocatello, ID -   The Montana State University-Billings men’s and women’s cross country teams each placed third overall in the team competition Saturday at Centennial Course.  The meet was hosted by Idaho State University.

Idaho State took top honors in both the men’s and women’s races as well as the team title.  Lois Ricardi of ISU had a winning time of 15:55 in the 4K women's race with second place trailing by 27 seconds.  Susan Kocab (Fr., Billings) led the Jacket women with a time of 17:11, placing 6th.  Other Yellowjacket points earners were Cierra Dornfeld (Fr., Woodbury, MN) finishing 12th with a time of 18:03, Tiffany Piplica (Jr., Riverton, WY) at 18:43 finished 14th, Tracie Overberg (Sr., Dodson, MT) 19:08 and 17th place, Kym Island (Fr., Columbia Falls, MT) at 19:37 and 19th place, Kisa Kron (So., Livingston, MT) finished 20th with 19:41, and Erin Gannon (Fr., Yankton, SD) placed 21st coming in at 19:46.

Pacing the men was Idaho States Saheed Khan, winning the 6k in a time of 19:51.  Leading the Jacket men’s team was Sam Hartpence (Jr., Custer, SD) recording a time of 21:04 and finishing 11th.  Jarred Rensvold (So., Wolf Point, MT) at 22:08 finished 20th, Matt Roseberry (So., Chinook, MT) placed 23rd with a time of 22:32, Andy Zoeller (So., Billings) at 22:53 and 26th place, Joe Kragt (Jr., Worden, MT) at 24:06 placed 28th and Abram Hagstrom (Fr., Billings) at 24:31 also earned points for the Jackets finishing in 29th place.

The Yellowjackets have two weeks until they travel to Dallas, Texas to compete at the Heartland Conference Championships October 22, hosted by Dallas Baptist.