The Carroll College women's cross-country team edged out Westminster for the team title and the Saints' men finished second in Saturday morning's Carroll Open.

Carroll's women finished with 36 points to edge out Westminster with 41, even though the Saints were scoring without top harrier Jade Johnstone, who ran unattached. Carroll's men finished with 29 points to Rocky Mountain College's 26. Both were 5-kilometer races.

Rocky's Amber Watson won the individual title in 19 minutes, four seconds. Amanda Theobald finished second in 19:22, 41 seconds ahead of Johnstone in third.

"At the one-mile mark, from what I saw, Westminster was beating us," Saints head coach Bill Ballinger said. "But between the 1- and 2-mile mark, we put ourselves in position to beat them." "Westminster doesn't have a big team, but they have a very good team."

The Saints' top scorer was Jamie Greene, who placed fourth in 20:26, while Carroll put its fifth runner in at 12th place.

Rocky's Joel Harris and Cesar Mireles finished first and second in the men's race, respectively. Harris finished in a time of 16:30.46, while Mireles came in at 16:40.00, just five seconds ahead of Carroll's top performer, Caleb Dietz. Taylor Gregory followed up in 16:48.00.

"Caleb Dietz ran faster than Taylor did last year, and he was a national qualifier," Ballinger said.

The open race meant anyone could compete, while the women's race was run congruently with the Centennial 5K.

"That's a good thing to do, and one of the unique things you can do with cross-country," Ballinger said. "As long as you call the meet an open, you can open it up to the community."

Carroll chemistry professor Kyle Strode proved he could still keep up with a 10th place finish overall in 17:31.00.