Gebelein, Poole Pace Mocs at Commodore Classic

Saturday, September 15

Nashville, TN

10:00 a.m.

Chattanooga

Commodore Classic

Men's Results Women's Results

9/15/2018 2:48:00 PM | Cross Country & Track & Field

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By: Anne Wehunt

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's and women's cross country teams opened the 2018 season at the Commodore Classic hosted by Vanderbilt at Percy Warner Park. The men finished 12^th overall while the women placed 15^th.

"We had some kids that ran some good races in each race,"Chattanooga head coach Andy Meyer said. "Some kids, typical of the first race of the year, it kind of opened their eyes and they had to remember what it was like to run hard again. We have some who will run better next time."

Ryan Gebelein paced the men's team with a 49^th place overall finish. He covered the 8,000 meter course, on a hot and humid day in the Music City, in a time of 26:33.2. Freshman Jonathon Boyd stepped up in his first collegiate race, coming across the finish line second for the Mocs in a time of 26:59.8

"Ryan ran just like he did last year, he's very consistent," Meyer said. "He's always going to be one of our top two guys. I'm really pleased with Jonathon Boyd, being a freshman and performing as well as he did. He was about 25 seconds behind Ryan. Jonathon just did really well for us this race.

Mark Britt ran the course in a time of 27:11.5 followed by Gavin Hasty with a time of 27:17.6

Chattanooga was just behing host Vanderbilt and Clemson and placed ahead of Murray State and Tennessee State. Samford was seventh.

Eastern Kentucky had five of the top seven finishers and led the way in the men's race with 20 points finishing well ahead of Louisville who had two in the top 10 and 85 points. Belmont took third, Tennessee Tech was fourth and Lipscomb fifth.

The Colonels' James Sugira finished alone in first with a time of 24:08.1, more than 33 seconds ahead of Lousiville's Emmanuel Cheboson. Eastern Kentucky's David Corrales finished third followed by teammates Jaime Romo and Zak Kirk.

In the women's race, Emily Poole, Chattanooga returning all-conference runner, finished first for UTC, crossing the line in a time of 18:54.0 for 68^th place overall. She was followed by Hannah Caldwell (19:22.6), Sophia Neglia (19:31.2) and Rebekah Wich (19:41.6).

"Emily paced the team as she did last year," Meyer said. "Hannah Caldwell had a really good race. She's starting to put some things together and we really need that from her. Sophia was really consistent last year. She's come back this year and doing to the exact same thing. Rebekah Wich ran a fairly good race for us. She hasn't run the past two year. She was redshirted and then had to sit out last year. She came in and did a phenomenal job for us."

The women placed ahead of UAB, Murray State, Southern Conference foe Mercer and Tennessee State. Just ahead of UTC was Samford in 13^th place and Southern Illinois. Ohio State claimed the women's title with 105 points followed by Illinois and host Vanderbilt.

Louisville's Dorcas Wasike claimed the women's overall title with a time of 17:09.4 followed by Tennessee Tech's Purity Sanga and Eastern Kentucky's Lilian Kiborus. The women's race featured 186 runners from 19 schools.

Up next for the Mocs is the Greater Louisville Classic on September 29 in Louisville, Ky.

Men's Overall

Place	Team	Points
1	Eastern Kentucky	20
2	Louisville	85
3	Belmont	95
4	Tennessee Tech	98
5	Lipscomb	144
6	Illinois	180
7	Samford	188
8	Ohio State	190
9	Southern Illinois	242
10	Vanderbilt	250
11	Clemson	283
12	Chattanooga	311
13	Murray State	350
14	Tennessee State	444

Chattanooga Results

Place	Name	Time	Scoring
49	Ryan Gebelein	26:33.2	45
72	Jonathon Boyd	26:59.8	61
80	Mark Britt	27:11.5	64
85	Gavin Hasty	27:17.6	68
93	Nathan Watson	27:26.9	73
118	Ryan Phillips	28:54.3	(82)

Women's Overall

Place	Team	Points
1	Ohio State	105
2	Illinois	126
3	Vanderbilt	133
4	Lipscomb	142
5	Xavier (Ohio)	146
6	Eastern Kentucky	155
7	Clemson	169
8	Southern Miss	173
9	Louisville	203
10	MTSU	229
11	Belmont	239
12	Tennessee Tech	340
13	Samford	342
14	Southern Illinois	380
15	Chattanooga	397
16	UAB	443
17	Murray State	482
18	Mercer	513
19	Tennessee State	628

Chattanooga Results

Place	Name	Time	Scoring
68	Emily Poole	18:54.0	62
92	Hannah Caldwell	19:22.5	76
103	Sophia Neglia	19:31.2	81
110	Rebekah Wich	19:41.6	87
116	Brianna Nelson	19:46.6	91
129	Nicole Buehrle	19:55.5	(99)
134	Kennedy Thomson	20:06.6	(102)
153	Julia Henderson	20:36.1	--
157	Haley Morris	20:41.9	--
163	Abby Bateman	21:17.4	--