The UW Oshkosh men’s and women’s cross country teams won their respective meets and had a total of nine runners finish inside of the top five at the UW-Platteville Gender Equity Invite Sept. 14 at the Cole Acres Golf Course in Cuba City.
On the men’s side, UWO’s Cameron Cullen won the 8000-meter race in 25:54.9 to help the Titans to first place in the team event after Oshkosh finished the day with 22 points. Oshkosh’s Paul Proteau claimed third place in the race with a time of 26:31.8 while fellow Titan Alex Peterson finished right behind him in fourth place with a time of 26:38.9. UWO’s Trent Chadwick took fifth place with a time of 26:43.5 while Eli Traeder ran a 27:07.8 and placed ninth.
UWP finished second as a team behind UWO, scoring 60 points, and Ripon College claimed third place out of seven teams with 94 points.
UWO’s Amelia Lehman won the women’s 6000-meter race in 23:00.4, helping the Titans to a first-place team finish on the women’s side after Oshkosh scored 15 points and swept the top five spots.
Oshkosh’s Gracie Buchinger finished 10 seconds behind Lehman for second place, coming in with a time of 23:10.2. Jamie Catania claimed third place with a time of 23:15.4 while Cyna Madigan took fourth place with a time of 23:27.7. Libby Geisness ran a 23:34.1 to round out the top five finishers in the race.
Ripon finished in second place behind the Titans in the women’s meet with 67 points while UWP took third out of six teams with 79 points.
The Titans will return to action Sept. 14 when they hit the road to compete in the UW-Whitewater Tom Hoffman Invitational at the UW-Whitewater Campus Course.