Arkansas finishes as runner-up in SEC Championships

OXFORD, Ms. – No. 21 Arkansas completed second within the SEC Cross Nation Championships with 74 factors to put behind No. 7 Alabama’s profitable tally of 36 factors on the Ole Miss Golf Course on Friday morning.

It marked the primary time since 2012 for one more workforce to win the ladies’s league title in cross nation and halt the Razorbacks streak of 9 consecutive victories.

Alabama claimed workforce honors off a 2-3-5-7-19 end with Arkansas runner-up off a end that included 4-11-12-21-26 whereas Ole Miss (83 factors) had an 8-10-16-18-31 order.

“Second place in opposition to the workforce Alabama has put collectively was exhausting fought,” famous Arkansas ladies’s head coach Lance Harter. “Ole Miss, who I believe lots of people forgot, have been twelfth on the nationwide meet final 12 months and basically had everybody again. They have been a formidable workforce and we needed to struggle like loopy to carry them off.

“We might have appreciated to have received, little question about it. But when we take 9 wins out of 10 tries, that’s higher than most individuals can ever dream of.”

Florida’s Parker Valby received the person title in 18:25.9 over the Alabama tandem of Mercy Chelangat (18:33.7) and Hilda Olemomoi (18:54.2).

Razorback junior Isabel Van Camp led Arkansas in putting fourth amongst a discipline of 148 runners. Van Camp coated the 6,000m course in a better of 19:05.5, which was a powerful enchancment on her earlier better of 19:54.7 from final 12 months’s NCAA Championship race in Tallahassee.

“Isabel is all the time reliable, and we had three freshmen actually come by,” said Harter. “For Isabel to seize fourth place on this degree of competitors could be very respectful. Now we tune up for regionals.”

Arkansas then had a pair of freshmen end in eleventh and twelfth place with the mixture of Sydney Thorvaldson (20:00.6) and Mia Cochran (20:01.2), each additionally producing their finest instances on a 6k course. They have been the second and third finest freshmen finishers within the race behind Olemomoi.

Thorvaldson’s earlier better of 20:43.6 and Cochran’s earlier better of 20:45.9 each occurred just lately in Wisconsin this season.

Katie McCune, a senior switch with the Razorbacks, positioned twenty first in 20:32.0 whereas senior Gracie Hyde got here throughout the road because the fifth Arkansas runner at twenty sixth in 20:35.7.

Freshman Mary Ellen Eudaly positioned twenty seventh in 20:37.2 for because the No. 6 runner for Arkansas with Taylor Ewert within the No. 7 spot, ending thirty second in 20:45.3.

Adoette Vaughan (thirty eighth, 20:55.3) led the remainder of the group which included Heidi Nielson (forty third, 21:01.3), Nyah Hernandez (56th, 21:15.8), Julia Paternain (57th, 21:16.5), and Mackenzie Rogers (ninetieth, 2:47.7).

Arkansas races subsequent within the NCAA South Central Area meet hosted by Texas A&M on Friday, November 11.

TEAM RESULTS | 1. Alabama 36, 2. Arkansas 74, 3. Ole Miss 83, 4. Kentucky 122, 5. Florida 147, 6. Tennessee 159, 7. LSU 201, 8. Texas A&M 208, 9. Vanderbilt 223, 10. Auburn 260, 11. Missouri 276, 12. South Carolina 326, 13. Georgia 395, 14. Mississippi State 414.