Cavaliers Finish In Top Seven At NCAA Regionals
Cross country women place sixth; men place seventh.
Jennifer Owens leads<br>UVA women to sixth place<br>in the NCAA Southeast Regional.<br>

Jennifer Owens leads
UVA women to sixth place
in the NCAA Southeast Regional.

Nov. 13, 1999

GREENVILLE, S.C.-- Virginia's Jennifer Owens (Charlottesville, Va./Albemarle) and Bobby Thiele (Charlottesville, Va./Charlottesville) both led the Cavaliers to top-seven finishes at the NCAA Southeast Regional today in Greenville. Owens finished eighth overall in the 5K race with a time of 17:29, pacing the Hoos to a sixth place finish with a team score of 169.

Thiele finished 12th in the 10K men's division in a time of 30:21 while the men's team took seventh place with a team score of 182, just two points out of fifth.

Both Owens and Thiele now await at-large bids to the NCAA Championships which will be awarded on Monday, Nov. 15. The NCAA Championships will take place in Bloomington, IN on Monday, Nov. 22.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 

WOMEN:                                MEN:
1. Trish Nervo          UNC   17:03  1. Matthew Lane    W&M 29:27
2. Maria-Elena Calle    VCU   17:16  2. Chan Pons      NCSU 29:49
3. Christy Nichols     NCSU   17:17  3. Corby Pons     NCSU 29:57
4. Janelle Krause      Wake   17:18  4. David Spiller   JMU 30:00
5. Mary Jayne Harrelson ASU   17:20  5. Benjamin Cooke  JMU 30:00
6. Emily Travis        UNCC   17:24  6. Ken Svendsen    UNC 30:02
7. Heather Tanner       UNC   17:25  7. GeneManner      W&M 30:06
8. Jennifer Owens       UVA   17:29  8. JamesMutuse     EKU 30:09
9. Heather Hanscom      JMU   17:35  9. Chris Dugan    NCSU 30:10
10. Sheela Agrawal     Duke   17:40 10. AbdulAlzindani NCSU 30:17
23. Sarah Folse         UVA   18:06 12. Bobby Thiele    UVA 30:21
29. Jessica Thomas      UVA   18:16 29. DamondCromer    UVA 31:13
53. Dana Coons          UVA   18:46 31. Bill Palmer     UVA 31:16
66. Jeanna Composti     UVA   18:55 48. Justin Wood     UVA 31:44
72. K. C. Meehan        UVA   19:03 73. SamJackson      UVA 32:21
85. Megan Schwartz      UVA   19:15 76. Ryan Webb       UVA 32:24
87. Brian Wood          UVA   32:33


TEAM RESULTS:                      TEAM RESULTS:
1. UNC        66                  1. NCSU     40
2. NCSU       79                  2. W&M      69
3. Duke      123                  3. JMU      84
4. JMU       148                  4. Duke    142
5. Wake      162                  5. Wake    180
6. Virginia  169                  5. Eastern Kentucky  180
7. Virginia 182