Sept. 1, 2015 Complete Results | Photo Gallery
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - With three runners in the top eight, including the champion, the Baylor women's cross country team claimed the Bear Twilight Invitational for a ninth-straight year Tuesday at the H.O.T. Soccer Complex. The men's squad took second at the season-opening meet.
Individually for the women, junior Maggie Montoya secured the individual title with a time of 13:24.4, while Peyton Thomas (13:59.7) and Alex Davis (14:21.0) took fourth and eighth, respectively, in the 4,000-meter race.
In the men's 6K race, sophomore Eric Anderson (18:43.2) was the lead Bear with a seventh-place finish, while juniors Matt League (18:49.5) and sophomore Matt Parham (19:14.7) were eighth and 12th, respectively.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Baylor had a total of 20 girls competing in the event, while the men only had five runners.
• Baylor's women have won every Bear Twilight meet, which originated in 2007.
• It is the Baylor men's highest finish since being second in 2012, after being third each of the last two years.
• Montoya was BU's first individual champion since Rachel Johnson won her second-consecutive title in 2013. She claims BU's eighth individual title in the nine-year history of the event, joining Johnson (2), Kate Westenhover (2), Nichole Jones (3).
• There were five men's teams (Baylor, Incarnate Word, North Texas, TCU, and UT-Arlington) and six women's teams (Baylor, Incarnate Word, North Texas, SMU, TCU, and UT-Arlington) at the meet.
•The women's total point score was 29, while the men scored 66 total points.
•The men finished 50 points off first-place North Texas (15) and beat UT-Arlington (92) by 17 points.
• The women's other scoring runners included Maddie Zimmerman (14:32.8) and transfer Chelsea Orr (14:34.0).
• Baylor's fourth and fifth-place runners on the men's side were Chris McElroy (19:28.2) and Kyle Scanlan (19:50.4).
•Baylor men's team didn't run several of their top runners including Matt Galvin, JR Hardy and Jordan West.
STAT OF THE MEET
8 -- The number of individual titles the Baylor women have claimed in nine years of Bear Twilight action.
TWEET OF THE MEET
TOP QUOTE #1
"Maggie is in great shape right now. She is coming off of a great outdoor season. I am very proud of the way she ran. She looked very controlled. Peyton Thomas did a super job as she is in great shape. The highlight for us was to see Chelsea Orr's reaction to her race. It was her first race in three years, so it was really nice for her to perform that well." -- head coach Todd Harbour on the women's top performers
TOP QUOTE #2
"It was a great meet. Our team ran well. I still need to find a little bit from the guys. I got some guys that weren't running today that are going to help out a ton. From the ones that did run, I thought I got a pretty good showing." -- assistant head coach Jon Capron on the men's team
WHAT'S NEXT
Both the men and women will have the weekend off, before taking part in the Ken Garland Invitational on Sept. 12 in Denton, Texas.
