St. Olaf Wins Central Region Men's Team Title, Wintheiser Takes Individual Title, MIAC Sweep of Top 3 Women's Team Spots; Plus Midwest Region Results

They're off an running in Iowa.

Predictable thus far, two miles into the race Eli Horton of Central College is out in front.  St. Olaf's top five are packed up front, four Central College guys in the mix, but their fifth man is back in 26th.  The Ole's have five in the top ten, Central has four.  Horton has a six second lead over Grant Wintheiser with Jake Campbell about six seconds behind Wintheiser.

At three miles, Wintheiser has taken over and St. Olaf is pulling away in the team race.  Five MIAC teams in the top ten with Hamline in 11th in the team competition.  Wintheiser is leading by a little over two seconds, Horton in second, Hart Horner of Carleton is in third.  St. Thomas is fourth, Carleton fifth in the team race followed by St. John's in seventh, Gustavus in tenth, Hamline 11th, Macalester 13th.Augsburg 14th, St. Mary's 15th, St. Scholastica 16th, Martin Luther 18th, Bethel 21st.

A tenth past four miles and Wintheiser and St. Olaf continue to pull away. Loras has moved to second in the team race, Central is third, Carleton fourth and St. Thomas fifth.St. John's eighth, Hamline ninth, and Gustavus tenth.  Wintheiser has opened his lead to 21 seconds over Horton, Jake Campbell is third, Horner fourth, Jake Brown and Paul Escher fifth and sixth, respectively.  The Ole's fifth man, Phillip Meyer, is eighth.  Loras has packed it's top three men in seventh, ninth, and tenth.  Hamline's Ryan Peterson is 12th, St. John's Thomas Feichtinger 13th, St. Thomas' Jacob Gerhartz 16th with teammate Dylan Baumann 18th.  Carleton duo of Jonah Barry and Donson Cook-Gallardo 19th and 20th respectively. Final results will be posted once they are official... Full results now up HERE.  Top five men's teams and scoring below:

1 St Olaf 21
2 Loras 78
3 Central 82
4 Carleton 132
5 St. Thomas 156

St. Olaf SID recap of Region performance for men's team is  HERE.

Midwest Region men'sresults are in.  Team top ten is below:
1 North Central (Ill.) 51
2 UW - Eau Claire 108
3 UW - La Crosse 110
4 Washington U. 135
5 UW - Stout 158
6 UW - Platteville 171
7 UW - Oshkosh 184
8 UW - Stevens Point 220
9 U. of Chicago 252
10 Augustana (Ill.) 266

Full Midwest Region men's results are HERE.

Women's MW Team Scores 1 Washington U. 62 2 UW - La Crosse 91 3 U. of Chicago 99 4 North Central (Ill.) 149 5 UW - Eau Claire 168 6 Wheaton (Ill.) 172 7 UW - Oshkosh 210 8 Aurora 241 9 UW - Stevens Point 252 9 UW - Stout 252 Full Midwest Region women's results are HERE.

Wayzata grad Josh Thorson of UW Eau Claire finished third in the men's race in 24:09.9. UW Eau Claire's coach Dan Schwamberger does a YouTube recap of the Midwest Regional results for the team HERE.

The Central women's race is over, but they appear to have cut off the live feed, only woman's split thus far was at 600 meters.

Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, they ran the Minnesota USATF XC Championships this morning on a "real" cross country course :-) Skis anyone...

Dan Greeno dashing through the snow...

MIAC Sweep of the top three team places in the Central Region women's race. Carlton's Ruth Steinke wins individual title in 21:16. Team scores:

1 Carleton 60
2 St Olaf 81
3 St Thomas 127
4 Wartburg 173

Full women's results HERE
Carleton SID recap is HERE.