WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Brody Kemble won his second consecutive race as Northwest Nazarene cross country excelled at the Whitman Open on Saturday, Oct. 5.
 
Kemble led his men's side to a second-place finish as a team, behind only Gonzaga. On the women's side, Morgan Erler's fourth-place finish highlighted a third-place result, trailing just Gonzaga and Washington State.
 
Kemble, a junior from Middleton, earned the victory with a time of 24:30.9, sprinting to the finish to edge out Gonzaga's Logan Schwartz by just half a second. Kemble's win comes on the heels of a dominant victory at Western Oregon's Mike Johnson Classic last weekend.
 
Grady Mylander was next for NNU with another top-10 finish, placing sixth with a time of 24:40.3. Carter Stedman was 14^th, Ian Stockett 17^th, and Neftali Menendez 20^th to round out the scoring five for the Nighthawks.
 
Erler earned her fourth-place slot with a time of 21:54.4, trailing just three runners from Gonzaga and missing out on third by less than a second.
 
Olivia Klein followed in 22^nd with a time of 23:20.80 and Paige Trautman just behind her in 23^rd at 23:23.0. Mckenna Lechner and Keelin Stewart also finished back-to-back, in 25^th and 26^th, respectively.
 
The Nighthawks will now make a trip across the country for their next meet, traveling to Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois for the Lewis Crossover Invite on Saturday, Oct. 12.