NORTON, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University women's cross country team finished third at the All-Ohio Championships, hosted by the University of Akron at the Silver Creek Metro Park Cross Country Trails.

BW finished third of 17 Division III teams with 120 points and 12th of 38 teams overall, just two points behind second-place Case Western Reserve University. Fellow Ohio Athletic Conference program Otterbein University was the top Division III women's team with 52 points, placing seventh overall.

Division I, II and III as well as NAIA and Junior College teams all compete at the All-Ohio Championships with the top-35 runners in each division receiving All-Ohio honors.

The Yellow Jackets had three repeat All-Ohio finishers in junior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC performer Bella Pendola (Warsaw/River View), junior two-time All-OAC and Academic All-OAC performer Kelly Brennan (Akron/Walsh Jesuit) and sophomore All-Great Lakes Region performer Madison Kile (North Canton/Hoover). Pendola earned her second All-Ohio honor with a career-best time of 22 minutes, 23.1 seconds to finish fourth in Division III and 22nd overall. Brennan took sixth in Division III and 40th overall with a time of 22:46.4 to garner her third career All-Ohio accolade. Kile's career-best time of 23:16.2 put her 14th in Division III and 68th overall to also repeat as an All-Ohio runner.

Freshman Alyssa Laughner (Horward, Pa./Central Mountain) and sophomore All-OAC performer Hastings Marek (Pataskala/Watkins Memorial) rounded out the top-five finishers for the Yellow Jackets. Laughner ran a career-best time of 24:01.4 to finish 43rd in Division III and 124th overall, improving on the time from her first collegiate meet last weekend by 52.5 seconds. Meanwhile, in just her first meet this season, Marek cracked the top five with a time of 24:31.5 to place 55th in Division III and 144th overall.

BW will compete again on Saturday, Oct. 13, in the Inter-Regional Rumble, hosted by Oberlin College at the Oberlin Cross Country Course.