SEC Cross Nation Groups In Motion This Weekend

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Sept. 29, 2021)—–Twelve Southeastern Convention cross nation applications shall be in motion this weekend in six completely different areas. Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt will journey to South Bend, Ind., for the annual Joe Piane Invitational, whereas Arkansas and Missouri will function hosts to a pair of cross nation meets. The Razorbacks shall be joined by LSU within the Chile Pepper Pageant, whereas Missouri and Texas A&M will compete within the Gans Creek Basic on the course the place the SEC Championships shall be held later this season.

Elsewhere across the SEC this weekend, Mississippi State will run within the Dwell in Lou Cross Nation Basic on Saturday, whereas South Carolina will compete within the Paul Quick Run in Bethlehem, Pa., and Florida can have runners competing within the UCF Invitational.

Within the Rankings

Six SEC groups have been included within the nationwide top-25 this week. Alabama and Arkansas are ranked Nos. 6 and 10 within the ladies’s ballot, whereas Ole Miss is No. 15. On the lads’s aspect, Arkansas is the highest-ranked males’s squad at No. 8, whereas Alabama is fifteenth and Ole Miss is 18th.

Weekend in Assessment

The Arkansas males claimed the crew title on the Coast-to-Coast Battle In Beantown final Friday. The Razorbacks have been led by a 1-2 end from Gilbert Boit and Amon Kemboi. Boit and Kemboi each clocked 24:07.4 on the 8,000m course at Franklin Park. The Arkansas ladies completed third within the Invoice Dellinger Invitational as Lauren Gregory bettered the collegiate subject over 6,000m with a time of 20 minutes, 6.9 seconds on Thursday.

The Tennessee ladies’s nation crew positioned three runners within the top-20 Friday on the thirty fifth Roy Griak Invitational as they raced their technique to a third-place end total. On the lads’s aspect, the Vols completed eighth on the Roy Griak.

Texas A&M’s Eric Casarez claimed the lads’s 8k particular person title setting a Dale Watts Cross Nation Course report (23:04.00), whereas the Aggies’ ladies’s crew received the general crew title Saturday morning on the Texas A&M Staff Invitational.