MONMOUTH, Oregon --- The Western Oregon women's cross country team took second place in its 6K race and the men's team took third in the 8K race at Friday's Mike Johnson Classic at Ash Creek Preserve. 

The WOU women finished with 65 points, placing only behind the College of Idaho who had the top five finishers and placed seven of its runners in the top 16. Leading the Wolves was freshman Ali Clifton who ran the race in 22 minutes, 37.9 seconds to take eighth place. She was followed by Riley Smith (22:41.2, ninth), Natalie Perez (23:11.4, 14th), Olivia Flack (23:15.9) and Katie Chapman (23:22.3, 19th) to round out the scoring. Lindie Larson (24:17.5, 33rd) and Emily Moore (25:17.5, 44th) rounded out the top seven for the Wolves.

Sage Martin of College of Idaho won the race with a time of 21:35.6.

It was a sprint to the finish in the men's race with Western Oregon's Bailey Smith taking third with a time of 24:43.6, finishing only behind San Diego Mesa's Juan Rosales (24:37.8) and College of Idaho's Elias Everist (24:39.4).

Smith helped the Wolves take third place with 69 points, finishing behind only College of Idaho (28) and San Diego Mesa (35).

Completing the scoring for Western Oregon was Easton Pomrankey (25:33.2, 15th), Cedar Davis-Frankfort (25:37.8, 16th), Kolby Spink (25:58.1, 22nd) and Dustyn McKenney (26:05.1, 23rd) while Logan Parker (26:50, 33rd), James Lackey (27:59.8, 51st) and Matthew Schenk (28:07.1, 53rd) also competed).

The Wolves next compete Oct. 15 at the Lewis & Clark Invitational in Portland.