Results
SPOKANE, Wash. – Senior
Tux Seims (Homer, Alaska/Civil Engineering) completed his collegiate running career with Alaska's top time to lead the program to a 15th-place finish at the NCAA West Region Championship Saturday morning at the Plantes Ferry Sports Complex.
Seims covered the 10-kilometer course in 33 minutes, 54.35 seconds to take 69th place (64th scoring) out of the 130-man field. That time was nearly two minutes faster than his mark a year ago at the region race and 36 places higher than 2012.
The Nanooks compiled a team score of 391 (64-75-81-84-87) to take 15th out of 18 squads competing from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, the PacWest Conference and the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
Redshirt sophomore
Ross MacDougall (Astoria, Ore./Foreign Language) was the second Nanook to finish as he took 80th overall (75th scoring) with a time of 34:11.34.
The next four runners all completed the region race within 11.18 seconds of each other. Rookie
Keegan Rankin (El Paso, Texas/Geological Engineering) finished in 86th place (81st scoring) in 34:24.99 and junior
Kenneth Brewer (Chugiak, Alaska/Biological Sciences) took 89th (84th scoring) with a clocked time of 34:28.48. Brewer improved his time at last year's region race by 3:16.99 and place by 28 spots.
Rounding out the team's scoring total was sophomore
Isaac Lammers (Eagle River, Alaska/Mechanical Engineering), who crossed the line in 93rd (87th scoring) in 34:35.34, which was 1:54.25 faster and 17 places better than his 2012 race.
Freshman
Tal Norvell (Douglas, Alaska/Film) finished less than a second later with a time of 34:36.17 to snag 94th place. Another rookie,
Mitch Burgess (Temecula, Calif./Petroleum Engineering) also competed for Alaska, taking 124
th in 36:10.50.
Chico State claimed the men's team title with 33 points after taking the top three spots, led by
Isaac Chavez, who won the individual championship by over 36 seconds in 30:55.81. Alaska Anchorage took second with 81 points, followed by Cal Poly Pomona (90), Western Washington (102) and Cal Baptist (150). All five teams automatically qualified for the NCAA Division II Championship.
