Nagwandala Has Career Day For XC at FSU Invitational - Georgia Southern University Athletics

Friday, October 11

Tallahassee, FL

8:20am

Georgia Southern University

Florida State Invitational

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10/11/2019 10:23:00 AM | Track & Field/XC

Results:

Georgia Southern Placed 10th as a Team

By: Chris Little

TALLAHASSEE, Florida – The Georgia Southern cross country team had an amazing outing Friday morning at the FSU Invitational led by Merabu Nagwandala's new personal-best in the 5K.

Nagwandala, a sophomore, placed eighth among attached athletes and ninth overall in a field of 228 runners with a Georgia Southern career-best time of 18:00.7 to score eight team points.

In second for the Eagles was Carley Braman who ran also personal-best of 19:22.8, coming in 64^th overall.

Mattie Harris, in her short collegiate career, ran her best time of the year at 19:35.1 finishing 69^th.

Topping off the scorers were Ellunde Montgomery at 20:10.2 (106^th) and Adriana Ducharme at 21:25 (PR) (149^th).

Other Eagle runners: Mckenzie Cromer (21:45.2/159^th), Kaitlin Rocker (21:56.9/163^rd) and Doris Korir (22:20.5/169^th)

What coach Wes Penberthy had to say: "We really came out and competed at a high level. We had some nice season and personal bests today. Everyone competed at a high level and I'm very happy with our performance.

The Eagles placed 10^th out of 24 female teams with 289 points. Florida claimed the team victory with 29 points over the second-place hosting Seminoles (63).

The team is currently pending approval of a final regular-season meet next weekend before competing in the Sun Belt Championship Nov. 2 in McDonough.