FANSHAWE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS CCAA CROSS COUNTRY TITLE

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TORONTO - The Fanshawe College men's cross country team successfully defended its title at the 2013 New Balance Toronto Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Cross-Country Running National Championships at Humber College on Saturday.

Fanshawe accumulated 39 team points, well ahead of second-place Humber which amassed 94. Fanshawe was led by two-time defending Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) champion Clint Smith (Petrolia), who finished second at nationals for the third straight season. Smith's 8 km time of 25:42 was just under four seconds behind champion Stephan St-Martin of Campus Notre-Dame–de-Foy in Quebec.

Smith's contributed one team point with his second place finish. Josh Lumani (London) with nine points (26:40), Daniel Bright (Brampton) with 11 points (26:53) and Luke Deighan (Newmarket) with 18 points (27:49) rounded out the scoring. The Fanshawe men's team has now medalled at nine straight nationals.

As a conference, OCAA finished in a dead heat with the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) with 36 points, but won the tiebreaker with a lower total time. OCAA saw two of its runners make the CCAA all-tournament first-team, including Smith and Riley Hubbard-Olesky (Oshawa) of Fleming College (5th - 26:06). Five OCAA student-athletes made the CCAA all-tournament second-team, including Nathaniel Green (Etobicoke) of Humber (8th - 26:21), Sean Sweeney (Toronto) of George Brown College (10th - 26:31), John Trojansek (Windsor) of St. Clair College (11th - 26:37), Lumani (12th) and Bright (14th).

St. Clair earned a national women's team medal for the first time in school history, finishing in bronze position with 87 team points. University of British Columbia - Okanagan took first place with 40 points.

St. Clair was led by Kodi Morgan (Windsor) who finished in 13th place with a 5 km time of 20:23, good for eight team points. Also contributing to the team title were Donia Oumesrour (Windsor) with 14 points (20:36); Amanda Matthews (Windsor) with 25 points (21:02) and Emily Ditty (Tecumseh) with 40 points (21:37).

Morgan was named to the CCAA all-tournament second-team as well as OCAA champion Courtney Brohart (Sarnia) of St. Lawrence College, Kingston Campus (10th - 19:58), and Joanita Louw (South Africa) of George Brown (14th - 20:26).

As a conference, OCAA finished in third place with 65 points.

Championship Website: www.ccaa.ca/national-championship-s15068

With files from Humber College

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