LC STATE ATHLETICS NEWS

“The men were almost two minutes faster as a team than a year ago,” Head Coach Mike Collins explained. “Another dynamic group within our top 10 shows our depth. It’s going to make it very challenging to determine both conference and national teams with the guys running this well and working hard to get better.”

The LC State men placed fifth overall with six runners under the 26:00 mark. Carter Gordon led the way in 19^th place with a time of 24:49. Kobe Wessels edged Griffen Parsells with a fraction of second separating the two. Wessels was 28^th and Parsells with 29^th with both running at the 25:05 mark. Less than a second was between the two with Parsells running a PR to do so.

Conner May was the fourth Warrior to cross the line and placed 31^st (25:10). Alexander Fry ran a personal-best time of 25:21 to take 35^th and Cooper Carlson was 52^nd with his first sub-26:00 time of 25:55.

Junior Connor Alexander placed 57^th (26:09), Clay Shumaker was 59^th (26:20), Keith Uitdewilligen finished 61^st (26:21) and Ben Vernon was 62^nd (26:24). Tristin O’Brien was 65^th (26:35), Samuel Iversen finished 73^rd (27:02), Manuel Valdez placed 77^th (28:12), Jace Joslyn was 78^th (28:15) and Jacob Adams finished 79^th (28:22).

Eastern Washington won the NCAA Division I-heavy meet and LC State placed ahead of groups from DI programs Washington State and Montana.

UP NEXT

With the regular season in the rearview, the Warriors turn their attention to the Cascade Conference Championships. The conference meet is set for Nov. 8 in Portland.

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