BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Senior Phoebe Pohl placed 23rd out of 60 runners to pace the Bates women's cross country team against rivals Bowdoin, Colby, and Tufts Saturday at the Pickard Field Cross Country Course.

Dubbed the "CBBT" meet due to the addition of the Jumbos, the season-opener was just a 4.5K, as opposed to a standard 6K collegiate women's cross country race. Pohl (Wayland, Mass.) crossed the finish line in 18:20.4, in a dead heat with teammate and Bates junior captain Elizabeth Holcombe (San Francisco, Calif.) who was officially clocked at the same time as Pohl, but ended up in 24th. Senior Isabelle Demeritt (Acton, Mass.) took 25th in 18:20.5, just a tenth of a second back of Pohl and Holcombe. 

Senior captain Sophie Demeritt (Acton, Mass.) and sophomore Gwendolyn Anderson (Boone, N.C) rounded out the scoring for Bates with times of 18:40.1 and 18:40.2, good for 31st and 32nd place respectively. 

Bates has this week off before hosting the Maine State Meet at Roy's Disc Golf in Auburn, Maine on Sept. 21.