SPORTS BRIEFS

GOLF

Sophomore Lanto Griffin (Blacksburg/
Blacksburg) shot a 73 in the final round
to earn a ninth-place finish and lead
VCU Monday in the Coca-Cola Duke
Classic. Griffin’s three-round total was
four strokes under par at 212, eight
strokes behind tournament champion
Jonathan Hodge of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
Sophomore Vincent Nadeau
(Penn Hook/Purdue) tied for 15th place
at two under par. VCU finished ninth
as a team at 875 strokes, 11 over par,
while UT-Chattanooga and host Duke
were crowned co-champions at 22
under. The Rams return to the course
Oct. 15-16 in Lynchburg at the Liberty
Intercollegiate.

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

After placing second in last weekend’s
Hagan Stone Park Invitational in Greensboro,
N.C., sophomore Stephen Mutisya
(Machakos, Kenya) was named CAA
Men’s Runner of the Week on Tuesday.
Mutisya has paced VCU all season and
finished the eight-kilometer course with
a time of 25:59.5. Freshman John Vial
(Glenn Allen/Hermitage) had his best
outing of the season, finishing 10th with
a time of 27:09.5, and sophomore Piotr
Dibas (Jaslo, Poland) finished in the top
10 clocking in at 26:53.8. The Rams finished
first overall in the 12-team field, and
the team returns to action this weekend
at the Tribe Open in Williamsburg. The
CAA Championships are on the horizon
in Hempstead, N.Y., Oct. 26.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

The Rams took to the course for the
first time in nearly a month Saturday at
the Hagan Stone Park Invitational. The
team’s time off proved to be beneficial
– VCU finished second overall out of the
18 schools involved and improved by an
average of 86 seconds from its last outing.
Senior Danielle Williams (Virginia
Beach/Salem) and sophomore Melissa
Douglas (Spotsylvania/Spotsylvania)
led the way for the Rams with top-15
finishes, with Williams finishing fourth
at 19:27.9 on the 5-kilometer course.
VCU returns to the course this Saturday
in Williamsburg at the Tribe Open.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Sophomore Myriam Bouchard (Quebec,
Canada/Cardinal Roy) earned CAA
Player of the Week honors on Monday for
her performances last weekend. Just two
days later, she was recognized by “Soccer
Buzz” as a member of the National
Team of the Week. Bouchard caused a
key turnover in the second half against
Drexel and lofted a perfect feed to junior
Jasmine Riley (Arlington/Wakefield),
who added an insurance goal to give the
Rams a 2-0 win. In addition to anchoring
the back line of the stifling defense,
which has not allowed a goal in 442:10,
Bouchard netted her second goal of the
season Friday at Delaware.