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Georgia Southern Places Sixth at Sun Belt Championships
11/1/2015 1:31:00 PM | Track & Field/XC
Eagles spread by less than a minute in the 2015 league meet
MEET RESULTS
HAMPTON, GA. – With an outstanding final kilometer, Georgia Southern Cross Country landed a sixth place finish in the 2015 Sun Belt Cross Country Championships. The Eagles, picked 10th in the preseason poll, exceeded expectations behind a 23rd place finish by Rebecca Parker.
The Eagles were 10th at the 1K and 2K time checks, but jumped one place at both the 3K and 4K marks. In the final kilometer the Eagles picked off two spots to post the sixth place finish. The Eagles had the second-closest spread in the field with just 57 seconds between their top-five runners. That delta was just nine tenths of a second off first place South Alabama's spread.
TEAM RESULTS
1 – South Alabama (46 points)
2 – Appalachian State (66 points)
3 – UT Arlington (84 points)
4 – Georgia State (138 points)
5 – Little Rock (164 points)
6 – Georgia Southern (169 points)
7 – Arkansas State (171 points)
8 – Troy (177 points)
9 – Texas State (187 points)
10 – UL Lafayette (204 points)
11 – UL Monroe (338 points)
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
23 – Rebecca Parker (19:25.9)
27 – Bianka Loza (19:36.1)
32 – Ashton Lord (19:47.4)
43 – Chantelle Nicholls (20:19.7)
44 – Erin Mullican (20:22.9)
51 – Bailey Willett
70 – Jinni Pethel
RIVALRY SERIES UPDATE
With a fourth place finish for Georgia State, the Panthers have added a point for their school to the Georgia Southern-Georgia State Rivalry Series. The score for the series is now, Georgia Southern 1.5 and Georgia State 1.0. To view the results and scoring in this new competition, visit http://gseagles.com/sports/2015/9/30/GEN_0930150308.aspx
WHAT HEAD COACH KELLY CARTER SAID
"I am so proud of our cross country team. We were picked to finish 10th at the beginning of the year and we finished sixth. We were only five points out of the top five. It's just a testament to the hard work that the young ladies put forth this cross country season. With no seniors on the team, the future looks bright for Georgia Southern Cross Country."
NEXT UP
With the conference meet in the books, Georgia Southern now waits for an invitation to the NCAA South Region Cross Country Meet. That meet will be held on Nov. 14 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics, twitter.com/GSAthletics, iOS app Georgia Southern Eagles and Android app Eagles GATA. Fans can purchase tickets to Georgia Southern Athletics events by visiting GSEagles.com/Tickets.
HAMPTON, GA. – With an outstanding final kilometer, Georgia Southern Cross Country landed a sixth place finish in the 2015 Sun Belt Cross Country Championships. The Eagles, picked 10th in the preseason poll, exceeded expectations behind a 23rd place finish by Rebecca Parker.
The Eagles were 10th at the 1K and 2K time checks, but jumped one place at both the 3K and 4K marks. In the final kilometer the Eagles picked off two spots to post the sixth place finish. The Eagles had the second-closest spread in the field with just 57 seconds between their top-five runners. That delta was just nine tenths of a second off first place South Alabama's spread.
TEAM RESULTS
1 – South Alabama (46 points)
2 – Appalachian State (66 points)
3 – UT Arlington (84 points)
4 – Georgia State (138 points)
5 – Little Rock (164 points)
6 – Georgia Southern (169 points)
7 – Arkansas State (171 points)
8 – Troy (177 points)
9 – Texas State (187 points)
10 – UL Lafayette (204 points)
11 – UL Monroe (338 points)
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
23 – Rebecca Parker (19:25.9)
27 – Bianka Loza (19:36.1)
32 – Ashton Lord (19:47.4)
43 – Chantelle Nicholls (20:19.7)
44 – Erin Mullican (20:22.9)
51 – Bailey Willett
70 – Jinni Pethel
RIVALRY SERIES UPDATE
With a fourth place finish for Georgia State, the Panthers have added a point for their school to the Georgia Southern-Georgia State Rivalry Series. The score for the series is now, Georgia Southern 1.5 and Georgia State 1.0. To view the results and scoring in this new competition, visit http://gseagles.com/sports/2015/9/30/GEN_0930150308.aspx
WHAT HEAD COACH KELLY CARTER SAID
"I am so proud of our cross country team. We were picked to finish 10th at the beginning of the year and we finished sixth. We were only five points out of the top five. It's just a testament to the hard work that the young ladies put forth this cross country season. With no seniors on the team, the future looks bright for Georgia Southern Cross Country."
NEXT UP
With the conference meet in the books, Georgia Southern now waits for an invitation to the NCAA South Region Cross Country Meet. That meet will be held on Nov. 14 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics, twitter.com/GSAthletics, iOS app Georgia Southern Eagles and Android app Eagles GATA. Fans can purchase tickets to Georgia Southern Athletics events by visiting GSEagles.com/Tickets.
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