Falcon Cross Country Opens Season Today At Home

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The Bowling Green men's and women's cross country teams open their 2010 schedule today when they host Mid-American Conference rival Toledo in a dual meet on the BGSU campus.

Each race with be five kilometers (5K), with the women's race starting at 5:00pm and the men's race following at 5:45pm.

The races will begin on the south side of Whittaker Track, next to the football stadium.  It will go west, around the intramural fields, then come back towards the stadium behind the tennis courts and Cochrane Field.  The teams will then go around Cochrane Field and go west following Stadium Drive, where the first mile will be completed.

The teams will cross Stadium Drive next to the BGSU Ice Arena, where they will circle the baseball and softball fields located next to Forrest Creason golf course.  After crossing Stadium Drive again, the runners will cross in front of the tennis courts and Cochrane Field, completing the second mile of the race.

The final leg of the race will take the runners around Perry Stadium and Whittaker track, then north on Stadium Drive to "Bill's Hill".  After circling the hill, the teams will arrive at the finish just to the east of Stadium Drive behind Perry Stadium.

(For a complete map and full team rosters, click on the program link on the sidebar of this page.)

The Orange and Brown will be looking for redemption for disappointments in last year's dual meet at Toledo.  For the men, Chris Moody finished third and Jason Salyer finished sixth, but Toledo took the win, 19 to 40.  Meanwhile, Toledo took the top five spots in the women's race (4K), while BGSU took spots six through ten, on the way to a 15-40 Rockets' victory.

In today's men's race, the Rockets will send out 16 runners against Bowling Green's 14.  The Falcons will have 12 runners to Toledo's 11 in the women's race.

Complete results and post-race reaction will be available at BGSUFalcons.com shortly after completion of the meet. 

Today's lineups (including bib numbers):

BGSU Women's Cross Country Lineup
593 Katie Borgelt
594 Heather Conger
595 Autumn Dettmann
199 Caitlin Flack
596 Saisha Gailliard
597 Sally Jerop Kandie
598 Megan Kelsey            
599 Abby Koch
600 Courtney Krummert
601 Barbara Powers
602 Taylor Stichter
603 Tara Weiss

Toledo Women's Cross Country Lineup
620 Hannah Brisson                 
621Lyndie Brown                       
622 Samantha Condron               
623 Hannah Evans                       
624 Elizabeth Lemon                   
625 Amanda Mannon                 
626 Jessica Phillips                      
627 Devyn Ramsay                      
628 Kristal Studer                        
629 Megan Vogelsong                
630 Megan Wright                      

BGSU Men's Cross Country Lineup
604 Greg Black
605 Abraham Busienei
606 Jeff Ehler
607 Brian Ferber
608 Josh Franek
609 Perry Fraylick
610 Rob Kelvey
611 Ben Leininger
612 Christopher Moody
617 Jason Salyer
613 Jesse Smuda  
614 Joe van Bolderen
615 Luke Zerkle
616 Ian Zimmerman

Toledo Men's Cross Country Lineup
631 Richard Adamson              
632 Jacob Barnes                      
693 Nick Brenner                      
641 Jon DeWitt                          
640 Taylor Durczynski              
639 Trevin Flickinger               
638 Jake Kasperski                   
637 Elisha Kipchumba              
636 Barnabas Kiprotich           
635 Joel Kozleski                       
634 Elliott Livensparger          
633 David Moore                      
700 Derek Pohlman                 
181 Mike Smith                         
180 Louis Szilagyi                      
200 Nick Thomas