Local College Athletes: Porter’s run of success continues
Saint Martin’s runner from Hockinson wins Willamette Invitational
The Columbian
Published: October 5, 2016, 10:53pm
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Shannon Porter, a senior at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference women’s cross country runner of the week three times this season, including each of the past two weeks.
She most recently won at the Willamette Invitational on Saturday in Salem, Ore., winning by 25 seconds with a time of 17:06.7.
The Hockinson graduate also was honored for winning the Saint Martin’s Invitational on Sept. 24 with a time of 17 minutes, 50.10 seconds over 5,000 meters. Previously, she was named women’s runner of the week after winning the season opener on Sept. 3 at Puget Sound.
Porter did not race last season after transferring from Treasure Valley Community College.
• Foster Langsdorf’s seventh goal of the season on Sunday lifted Stanford to a 1-0 win over rival California in its Pac-12 opener. The Mountain View High graduate got behind the defense on a pass through the middle, then held off a defender to slip the ball home just after halftime.
The Cardinal make their only trip to the Northwest this week, visiting Washington at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Oregon State at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
• Aurora Bodenhamer scored her third goal of her senior season on Sunday to give the Portland State women’s soccer team a 1-0 victory over visiting Montana. The Hockinson graduate intercepted a clearing attempt and scored from near the top of the penalty area.A week earlier, Bodenhamer scored her second goal of in a match the Vikings lost to Southern Utah by a 3-2 score.
• Brett Johnson finished tied for second in the Western Washington Invitational men’s golf tournament. The senior from Ridgefield finished the 56-hole tournament at 4-under-par. The tournament concluded Sept. 27 at Bellingham Golf & Country Club.
• Lindsay Tompkins, a senior at Portland, placed 12th (18:21.0) at the Willamette Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 1, helping the Pilots win the women’s title with 87 points.
• Timur Zhividze, a junior at Corban University in Salem, Ore., scored the winning goal in overtime on Sept. 24 in a 3-2 Cascade Conference men’s soccer win at Southern Oregon. Zhividze,an Evergreen graduate, has eight goals and six assists through 10 games this season. Bobby Hutchin, a Skyview graduate, has three goals this season for Corban.
• Mitchell Pinney, a sophomore on the Southern Oregon men’s soccer team, has four goals and two assists. A Hockinson graduate, he scored in four consecutive matches for the Raiders, a second-year program guided by former Clark College soccer coach Biniam Afenegus.
• Taylor Hallquist, a Columbia River graduate, scored her second career goal for Western Washington on Sept. 29 in a 4-1 win over Saint Martin’s. Her goal was the first of the match on a shot from outside the penalty area. The Vikings are ranked seventh in NCAA Division II and are unbeaten in 33 consecutive Greater Northwest Athletic Conference regular-season games.
• Jenn Lewis, a sophomore at Eastern Washington and Camas High grad, reached the consolation final at the Whitman College Fall Invitational tennis tournament, and placed fifth.
• Alex Wallace, a redshirt junior at Portland and Union High grad, reached the quarterfinals of the singles A draw and doubles A draw at the Aggie Invitational in Davis, Calif.
• Ana Delgadillo, a junior central defender for Concordia University in Prtland, this week was a nominee for the Great Northwest Conference defender of the week honor.
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