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NOVEMBER 10, 2001
NORTH CAROLINA STATE SWEEPS SOUTHEAST REGION
NORTH CAROLINA AND WILLIAM & MARY ALSO EARN BIDS
GREENVILLE, South Carolina -- The Wolfpack of North Carolina State swept the NCAA Southeast Region Cross Country Championship Saturday at Furman, winning the women's race by four points over second place North Carolina, and taking the men's race by 42 points over William & Mary.
The N.C. State women placed three runners in the top 10 and all five scorers in the top 20 to score 45 points. Kristin Price led the Wolfpack with a second-place finish in 20:53, while North Carolina's Shalane Flanagan won her second consecutive Southeast Region Championship and tied the course record at 20:26.
On the men's side, N.C. State place all five scorers in the top 11 and took individual spots three, four, and five in scoring 30 points. William and Mary's Sean Graham was the individual champion, posting a time of 30:15 over the 10K course.
Only four points separated the third-place Demon Deacons of Wake Forest from the fourth place Blue Devils of Duke (82-86), so the NCAA Committe will have to decide on Monday whether to award either, one, or both of these teams at-large bids. In the women's race, Virginia finished third at 86, with James Madison coming in fourth at 121.
No matter what the NCAA committe decides, Duke's Sean Kelly and Chris Williams and Wake Forest's Chris Estawanik and Nathan Sisco will advance to Nationals - they were recipients of automatic individual bids on Saturday. Likewise for the women, Virginia's Jennifer Owens and Sarah Folse, Liberty's Heather Sagan, and JMU's Molly DeFrancesco earned automatic invitations to the November 19 championship.
The NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championship is will take place on the Furman Golf Course on the 19th. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children. The men's 10K race will start at 11 a.m. with the women's 6K slated for 12:15 p.m.