Sports Women’s Soccer Pre-season favorites to repeat as Pacific West Conference Champions, the BYULady Seasider runners compete in a meet this fall. Photos by Ryan Bagley. Hawaii women’s soccer team eliminated any lingering doubts with a 9-0 dismantling of a visiting Chaminade squad in the PacWest opener for both schools. G ood tea m effort s he lp Seasiders w i n Xco untr y m eets Despite putting up 19 shots in the opening period of the Sept. 19 game, the A strong team effort by the BYU-Hawaii Brendan McMaster led the SeasidSeasiders were only able to find the back of men’s and women’s cross-country teams ers with a second-place overall finish in a the net twice for a 2-0 lead at halftime. The helped them snatch the top spots in the time of 16:44. He was followed by Spencer domination continued in the second half UH Big Wave Invitational on Sept. 19. The DeAvilla in fifth, Matthew Gulden in sixth women edged out UH-Manoa, 38 points to and Luke Graesser in eighth. Brandon Krout, as BYUH peppered the Chaminade defense with 20 more shots, converting seven for 40, while the men totaled 35 points to beat Lacey Krout’s husband, finished in ninth Hawaii Pacific University’s 40-point score. with a time of 17:12. Brandon Krout, a junior goals. The visiting Silverswords struggled to mount any sort of attack and were held Lacey Krout led the Seasider in biology from Vancouver, Wash., praised without a single shot for the entire game. women over the 4K course with a time of McMaster while noting that it was a team With the win, BYUH improved to 3-0 15:42 to finish fourth overall. Lacee Kurtz effort that secured the win. “It’s really good was the fifth and final scoring Seasider to knowing that you have someone up front. All overall and 1-0 in the PacWest, tied atop the th finish – grabbing 11 place with a time of really good teams have a good frontrunner,” leaderboard with three other teams. -sam akinaka 16:10 – just 28 seconds behind Krout. Katie he said. “It’s nice because what sets us apart Buxton took sixth, Danielle Anderson eighth is having a good backend of 3, 4, and 5 runand Allison Shamrell finished in ninth to ners. Knowing that he’s going to finish in the round out the scoring for the Seasiders. top three or so, we know that we can always Krout, a sophomore in business have a chance to win because our 3, 4, and 5 management from Preston, Idaho, was will do their jobs.” -sam akinaka pleased with how BYUH performed as a team. “We ran really, really well,” she said, noting that UHManoa is an NCAA Division 1 “This is the portion squad. “We learned that our pack of the section for the makes a big difference. Working pull quote.” together as a team and not running for our own personal times is what helped us win,” she added. The men’s 5K race was a near-carbon copy of the women’s, with BYUH placing five runners in the top nine, also separated by just 28 seconds.
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