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Bobcat Women Place Fourth, Men Sixth At SLC XC Meet
Oct. 27, 2006
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NACOGDOCHES - The Bobcat women finished fourth and the men placed sixth at the Southland Conference Cross Country Championships hosted by Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches on Friday. Lamar won its fourth straight women's title with 46 points while also capturing the men's title with 37. Points are determined by adding up the place finishes for each school's top five runners with the lowest cumulative point total being crowned champion. Texas State's women joined the Cardinals as the only female team to have three runners finish in the top 10 of the 6,000-meter championship. Tenley Determan was the highest finishing Bobcat, placing sixth, while Whitney Perkins and Heather Bullin were ninth and 10th. Samantha Evola finished in 40th while Brittany Rosen placed 43 to round out the top-five finishers for the `Cats. April Murphy and Marina Andruzzi also competed, finishing 46th and 49th. Overall the Bobcats totaled 106 points to finish fourth, seven behind Texas-Arlington for third. The fourth-place finish was two spots higher than where Texas State finished in 2005. Lamar's Clerc Koenck won the event with a time of 21:35 while her Cardinal teammates Renee Graham and Amanda King placed second and fourth. On the men's side, it was more Lamar dominance as four Cardinal runners finished in the top six. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Shadrack Songok won the 8,000-meter event with a time of 24:20, four seconds ahead of Lamar's Samuel Kosgei, who placed second, and 10 seconds ahead of Kosgei's teammate Francis Kasagule, the race's third finisher. Frank Bwambale and Danny Shaw also finished fifth and sixth for Lamar. Texas State placed sixth, two spots below their 2005 finish. The `Cats finished with 156 points, 34 behind Texas Arlington and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, who tied for fourth. Championship host Stephen F. Austin finished second in both the men's and women's events. The top Bobcat finisher for the men was Andrew McCartin, who placed 18th. Alex Escontrias placed 27th while Chris Vidrin was 31st and Frankie Flores was 36th. Rounding out the Texas State performances were Eric Sheppard in 49th, Jacob Wells in 50th and Jonathan Hernandez in 57th. The Bobcat cross country teams will now prepare for the NCAA South Central Regional, which will be held in Waco on Nov. 11.
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