The CMU women’s track team won its second consecutive scored meet of the indoor season Saturday when it hosted the Chippewa Invitational.

CMU totaled 160 points and its closest competitor was Eastern Michigan, which scored 111. Western Michigan finished third (96), Kent State fourth (53.5) and Oakland finished last (5.5).

The day the CMU cross country program has been building to all season arrives this weekend.

The men’s team will travel Saturday to Athens, Ohio, for the 2009 Mid-American Conference Cross Country Championships, seeking its first conference title since 2004.

Riak Mabil will never forget the night of Dec. 19, 2000.

At the age of 13, Mabil, along with three of his siblings, arrived to the United States as refugees from northern Kenya.