COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Montana State cross nation groups previewed the NCAA championship cross nation course on Friday, competing within the Missouri-hosted Gans Creek Classic. The meet marked the Bobcats’ second of the yr and the primary of two regular-season journeys to Columbia through the 2025 season.
Competing towards a nationally-ranked discipline, the Bobcats positioned 31
st as a group in each gold invitational races, tallying 928 factors within the girls’s 6k and 752 factors within the males’s 8k later that morning. No. 12 Florida took the ladies’s group crown with 102 factors adopted by No. 8 Northern Arizona (126), No. 26 Colorado (166), No. 18 Virginia (210), and No. 22 Utah (223). On the lads’s aspect, No. 1 Iowa State tallied 47 factors to take the victory whereas No. 6 Virginia (107), No. 13 Colorado (126), No 11 Alabama (193), and No. 4 BYU (199) rounded out the highest 5 groups.
“The level of competition we were up against was really elite, which was a great experience for both of our teams,” Dale Kennedy Director of Track & Field and Cross Country
Lyle Weese stated. “We learned a lot and are excited to be back on the same course in three weeks for the Pre-NCAA meet.
Madi Siana started aggressively, fully engaged throughout the race, and put together an outstanding performance.
Owen Smith led the men with a really good performance. He was very aggressive in the race and put himself right in it.”
Siana led the best way for the Bobcats within the girls’s 6k gold race, clocking a 21:14.7 to position 142
nd. The sophomore climbed 17 positions within the ultimate 3,000 meters to tempo Montana State within the race.
Hannah Perrin was MSU’s No. 2 finisher, putting 208
th with a time of twenty-two:06.0. Following shut behind was
Claire Rutherford, who posted a 22:09.3 for 212
th place in her first collegiate 6k.
Hailey Watkins (22:20.7) and
Annie Kaul (22:26.4) rounded out Montana State’s scorers in 217
th and 220
th place, respectively.
On the lads’s aspect, Smith was Montana State’s high finisher, clocking a near-personal-best time of 23:36.8 to position 79
th within the 8k.
Sam Ells crossed the end line second for the Bobcats and 147
th total with a time of 24:09.6.
Ryan Harrington (184
th) and
Harvey Cramb (187
th) accomplished the 8k simply seconds aside, clocking instances of 24:26.9 and 24:29.7 to put up MSU’s third- and fourth-fastest instances. Freshman AJ Ringert rounded out Montana State’s scorers with a time of 24:39.7 to position 200
th.
The Bobcats additionally had rivals within the males’s and girls’s black races, with
Ben Saelens and
Niko Mann putting 209
th and 224
th within the 8k and
Kaitlyn Skinner taking 153
rd within the 6k.
Full outcomes from the Gans Creek Classic might be discovered on
PrimeTime Timing.
The Bobcats will return to Gans Creek Cross Country Course to compete within the Pre-National Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 18. The meet is about to kick off with the ladies’s invitational 6k at 9 a.m. MT adopted by the lads’s invitational 8k at 10 a.m.
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