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Men 2nd, women 3rd at MAC Champ.

Neufarth takes the win while Sovacool finishes 4th to lead Miami University

Erika Hadley

Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Sports
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Miami RedHawk junior Pat Sovacool (left), and sophomore Laura Neufarth (right), led the RedHawks Saturday afternoon at the Mid-American Conference Championship meet at Central Michigan. Neufarth won her meet, while Sovacool finished 4th.
Miami RedHawk junior Pat Sovacool (left), and sophomore Laura Neufarth (right), led the RedHawks Saturday afternoon at the Mid-American Conference Championship meet at Central Michigan. Neufarth won her meet, while Sovacool finished 4th.

Continuing a great season of top finishes for both Miami University's men's and women's cross country teams, the men's team placed second at the Mid-American Conference Championships, while the women placed third Saturday at Central Michigan University.

Sophomore Laura Neufarth won the women's meet with a time of 17:35.2, while junior Pat Sovacool was the top runner for the men with a fourth place finish.

The men's team was just 19 points shy of a conference championship title, falling to Eastern Michigan University, while the women were 19 points behind the University of Akron for second place.

"Our coach told us that this is the lowest score for a second place team that he's ever seen, so it was really competitive between us and Eastern," Sovacool said.

Sovacool, who led the 'Hawks finishing fourth in the meet with a time of 25:05.0, cited this year's MAC Championship as proof that the men's team is continuously improving and evolving in the cross country world.

"Last year we got fourth and our first guy that placed was 26th, and this year our first guy was fourth," Sovacool said. "So that just goes to show that our team's improving every single year and every single week, so we just want to keep it going."

Senior Michael Veatch placed seventh with a time of 25:14.1, and junior Brad Untrauer finished eighth for Miami with a time of 25:16.5.

"Me and Michael (Veatch) ran together most of the race, working off of each other and feeding off of each other," Untrauer said. "We wanted to make sure that we stayed within the top 10 pack for most of the race."

Rounding out the top 16 finishers for the 'Hawks were Kevin Silver and Michael Perry, who placed 15th and 16th respectively.

"Kevin Silver had a tremendous race," Head Coach Warren Mandrell said. "He's been running with a stress fracture, and so he's been doing a lot of cross training and not a lot of running, so for him to place 15th with almost no running was just amazing."
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