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Middle Tennessee and WKU win the Sun Belt Cross Country Championships
Updated: 10/31/2009 16:31:44 (ET)
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Monroe, La. - Runners competed on a very wet and soggy course Saturday afternoon at the 2009 Sun Belt Conference Men's and Women's Cross Country Championship as Western Kentucky University won the women's championship for the fourth straight year and Middle Tennesse took home the men's title.

WKU's Janet Jesang repeated as individual champion, and her third straight overall, in the women's race with a time of 19:09.83.  She led the charge of four Lady Toppers that finished in the top fourteen as Marion Kandie finished second, Eimear O'Brien finished 11th, and Michelle Finn finished 14th.  The Lady Toppers finished with a total of 53 points in winning their fourth consecutive Cross Country Championship.

Middle Tennessee took second place in the women's race as Zamzam Sangau took third overall in a time of 19:49.09.  Marla Bailey finished fourth for the Blue Raiders.

In the men's race South Alabama's Zac Edwards crossed the finish line first on the muddy course.  Edwards finished with a time of 26:10.91 in helping South Alabama to a second place team finish. Micah Tirop who had won the individual championship the previous two years finished fourth overall.

Middle Tennessee had five runners finish in the top eleven of the men's race - led by Festus Chemaoi who finish second overall. Middle Tennessee finished with a total of 36 points.

WKU's Michelle Scott and Middle Tennessee's Dean Hayes were respectively chosen as the league's Women's and Men's Cross Country Coaches of the Year.

South Alabama took home both Freshman of the year awards with Alex Shields winning it for the men and Tori Lawson for the Women.

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