Bobcats Men Earn Third Place at Blazer Twilight
At Hood College, the Frostburg State University Men’s Cross Country team had three runners finish in the top 20, pushing them to take third place overall out of 11 other teams. The Bobcat men registered 89 points with only Messiah and Eastern in front of them. Of all the Frostburg runners, three finished inside the top 20. These three were Braxton Clark finishing in eighth place, Daniel Foster finishing in 11th place, and Jacob Rickards finishing in 14th place.
This was Braxton Clark’s second time in a row being the Bobcats’ top finisher, with a time of 16:13.5. Daniel Foster finished in 16:35.1, and Jacob Rickards finished in 16:37:8. Frostburg runner Devin Horseman-Guy made it into the top 30 at 30th place in 17:27.2 minutes. After Horseman-Guy, was Brennan Tomassoni in 42nd place and Timothy Wolodkin in 48th place. Tomassoni finished in 17:45.6 minutes and Wolodkin in 17:56, completing the top seven of the FSU runners. The eighth and ninth place runners of FSU were Jaydon Morley and Jack Bullen. Morley finished in 18:10.9 and Bullen in 18:43.7.
On the Women’s Cross Country team, four runners were able to finish the 5k. FSU’s top finisher was Natalie Gray, in 56th place with a time of 23:21.9. In second and third place for the Bobcat women were Ariyana Ward and Isabel Pereira, respectively. The two also finished right behind each other in the overall race, Ward taking 68th place in 24:55.8, and Pereira taking 69th place in 25:14.4. The fourth Bobcats runner to finish the race was Sidonie Brown, 73rd overall finishing with a time of 25:42.5.
This was a great jump from the FSU Men’s Cross Country team last week finishing in 11th place, now moving up eight places. FSU’s next meet will be at the Lock Haven Invite.