Four Bobcats Earn All-America Honors Saturday as MSU Finishes Eighth

The Bobcats went 5-6-7 in the men's freestyle on the final day of the NCAA Championships. Earning All America honors are (from left) Tyle Reinking, 6th, Ryan Scott, 7th, and Bernhard Roenning, 5th.

Photo by: Gary Reinking

Four Bobcats Earn All-America Honors Saturday as MSU Finishes Eighth

3/13/2010 7:50:08 PM | Men's Skiing, Women's Skiing

Montana State capped one of the best weekends in school history with a historic eighth-place finish

By: Bill Lamberty

Four Bobcats earned All-America honors and Montana State posted its best finish since 1983 by capturing eighth at the 2010 NCAA Ski Championships hosted by the University of Colorado on Saturday.

Grethe Hagensen's Bobcat Nordic unit finished the meet with a flurry. Bernhard Roenning (sr., Skogn, Norway) finished fifth in the Men's 20-kilometer Freestyle to claim First Team All-America honors, while soph. Tyler Reinking (Silverthorne, Colo., sixth, 49:31.1) and jr. Ryan Scott (Boulder, Colo., seventh, 39:32.6). Roenning earned Second Team All-America honors in Thursday's classical competition. On the women's side, jr. Kaelin Kiesel (Ketchum, Idaho) finished ninth to earn Second Team All-America kudos.

In pacing the Bobcats this weekend, the Nordic unit was spectacular. MSU's cross country skiers finished third among the meet's Nordic competitors, the school's best finish ever. The six All-America Bobcats mark the most in a single meet in school history, as well.

NCAA Championship Team Scores (Final; 8 events)—1. Denver 785.5; 2. Colorado 714; 3. New Mexico 677; 4. Utah 595; 5. Dartmouth 523; 6. Vermont 516.5; 7. Alaska-Anchorage 506; 8. MONTANA STATE 402; 9. New Hampshire 303; 10. Middlebury 270.5; 11. Nevada 258; 12. Williams 176; 13. Colby 172.5; 14. Northern Michigan 166; 15. Alaska-Fairbanks 118; 16. Bates 98; 17. Wisconsin-Green Bay 88; 18. St. Lawrence 75, 19. Michigan Tech 30, 20. Wellesley 25; 21. St. Michael's 19; 22. Gustavus Adolphus 7.

Men's 20-Kilometer Freestyle—1. Franz Bernstein, UVM, 49:19.7; 2. Martin Kaas, UNM, 49:20.9; 3. Matt Gelso, CU, 49:23.5; 4. Harald Loevenskiold, DU, 49:26.0; 5. Bernhard Roenning, MSU, 49:27.7; 6. Tyler Reinking, MSU, 49:31.1; 7. Ryan Scott, MSU, 49:32.6; 8. Patrick Johnson, MID, 49:33.6; 9. Lex Treinen, UAA, 49:41.6; 10. Santiago Ocariz, UWG, 49:44.3; 11. Michael Schallinger, UAA, 49:47.4; 12. Didrik Smith, UU, 49:48.7; 13. Benjamin Knowles, SLU, 49:49.5; 14. Dimitri Luthi, WIL, 49:50.1; 15. Tor-Hakon Hellebostad, UNM, 49:50.8; 16. Jesper Ostensen, CU, 49:57.9; 17. Martin Liljemark, UU, 49:59.4; 18. Andrew Dougherty, DU, 50:02.0; 19. Vegard Kjoelhamar, CU, 50:15.5; 20. Charlie Smith, UN, 50:31.8; 21. Kristian Soerlund, DU, 50:34.4; 22. Miles Havlick, UU, 50:35.4; 23. Elias Bucher, UN, 50:36.3; 24. Pierre Niess, UNM, 50:38.3; 25. Nils Koons, DAR, 50:40.1; 26. Eric Packer, DAR, 50:41.1; 27. Patrick O'Brien, DAR, 50:41.4; 28. Eric Wolcott, SLU, 50:44.0; 29. Dylan McGuffin, UNH, 51:13.8; 30. George Cartwright, NMU, 51:43.4; 31. Tyler Kornfield, UAF, 52:00.0; 32. Tor Christopherson, UAA, 52:02.5; 33. Oskar Lund, MTU, 52:11.4; 34. Chris Bowler, NMU, 52:18.1; 35. John Parry, UAF, 52:34.1; 36. Zachary Wetherell, SLU, 53:02.8; 37. Wyatt Fereday, CBC, 53:25.2; 38. Kevin Cutts, NMU, 54:19.5; 39. Jens Brabbit, GAC, 55:09.5.

Women's 15-Kilometer Freestyle—1. Antje Maempel, DU, 41:03.0; 2. Alexa Turzian, CU, 41:09.0; 3. Eliska Hajkova, CU, 41:42.5; 4. Maria Graefnings, UN, 42:23.7; 5. Rosie Brennan, DAR, 42:25.9; 6. Polina Ermoshina, UNM, 42:34.7; 7. Mari Elden, DU, 42:36.2; 8. Jaime Bronga, UAA, 42:46.5; 9. Kaelin Kiesel, MSU, 42:47.9; 10. Joanne Reid, CU, 43:05.0; 11. Kate Dolan, DU, 43:08.9; 12. Laura DeWitt, NMU, 43:26.2; 13. Zoe Roy, UU, 43:34.5; 14. Monica Marksvarden, NMU, 43:36.5; 15. Stephanie Hiemer, UAA, 43:43.9; 16. Caitlin Patterson, UVM, 43:51.6; 17. Carolyn Freeman, UWG, 43:59.1; 18. Casey Kutz, MSU, 44:02.7; 19. Lucy Garrec, CBC, 44:06.4; 20. Mellie Park, MSU, 44:09.5; 21. Laura Rombach, UAA, 44:30.3; 22. Rose Kemp, UU, 45:04.6; 23. Linn Klaesson, UNM, 45:08.5; 24. Ida Sargent, DAR, 45:09.4; 25. Claire Egan, WC, 45:12.9; 26. Aurelia Korthauer, UAF, 45:16.6; 27. Katie Bono, DAR, 45:21.2; 28. Caitlin Curran, UVM, 45:23.6; 29. Anya Bean, UNH, 45:34.8; 30. Alice Nelson, WIL, 45:39.5; 31. Sarah MacCarthy, UU, 45:51.2; 32. Natalie Ruppertsberger, BAT, 46:07.1; 33. Jennie Bender, UVM, 46:21.4; 34. Christina Gillis, NMU, 47:02.2; 35. Natasha Kullas, UNH, 47:11.7; 36. Lauren Fritz, MID, 47:13.2; 37. Theresia Schnurr, UAF, 47:50.2 38. Kristin Ronnestrand, UN, 48:18.1; Did Not Finish: Henna Riikonen-Purtsi, MTU.