UVU campus briefs

CROSS COUNTRY: After having a week off, the Utah Valley University men's and women's cross country teams return to action today at the SUU Invitational in Cedar City. The men's 8K run is set to begin at 9 a.m. while the women's 6K run will begin at 9:45 a.m.

Both meets will be held at Cedar Ridge Golf Course.

The men enter the meet after finishing 12th at the prestigious Roy Griak Invitational two weeks ago, while the women finished 17th.

In his first two meets of the year, UVU's Joshua McCabe won the Wyoming Invitational while finishing two seconds off the course record, and at the Griak Invite he finished 26th with the time of 24 minutes, 58 seconds.

Shelise Walker paced the women with a 40th-place finish with the time of 21:58.

Behind McCabe, Spencer Evensen finished 73rd with the time of 25:46, while Jared Keller (76th, 25:54), Tim Rowberry (86th, 26:05) and Logan Petty (114th, 26:46) finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

Behind Walker, Angela Baker finished 109th with the time of 22:58, while Jessica Wilding (111th, 23:00), Krystal Harper (118th, 23:08) and Eleina Winger (127th, 23:18) finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

Following the meet with SUU and Dixie State, the Wolverines travel to Terre Haute, Ind., for NCAA Pre-Nationals on Saturday, Oct. 16.

WOMEN'S SOCCER: Utah Valley scored four second half goals to run away from Houston Baptist, 4-0, in the Great West Conference opener for both teams. The game was a rematch of last season's tournament championship, a 1-0 win for the Wolverines (4-7-1, 1-0 GWC) over the Huskies (3-9-1, 0-1) in Newark, N.J.

Katey Turner assisted on the first two goals and Kelsey Kimball Cook scored the last two to help the Wolverines run their unbeaten streak in conference regular season and tournament games to 10.

"This team responds very well to conference play. It's a new chapter for us and this team really rises to the occasions," said UVU head coach Brent Anderson. "I'm really happy with them and they way they worked today."

The game was scoreless for 51 minutes until Turner found Nicole Archibald Spencer for her fifth goal of the season. Turner took a long goal kick from Lauren Sack and beat Huskies' keeper Shelby Horn before leading Spencer in front of the open net.

Less than three minutes later — and off of a Turner corner kick — Kendra Buchanan hit Andi Bagdan and from 35 yards out, the senior rifled the ball off of Horn and into the goal to make it 2-0.