Southern places in XC invite

 
Southern University Men and Women’s cross country teams traveled to Lafayette Friday to compete in the Ragin’ Cajuns Invite.
The University of Louisiana-Lafayette won all top five finishes on the men’s side to grab the first place spot, their runners garnered 15 points, with the Jaguars rounding of second place with 69 points and the University of New Orleans in third earning 75 points.
At the Ragin’ Cajuns Invite they use a scoring method that equates a runner’s place to points.
“It turned out to be a really great meet for us,” ULL head coach Lon Badeaux said. “All of our athletes improved significantly from the first meet. On this tough course, for our men to run that fast as a group and for Anna Katherine to register the time she did was pleasing.”
Southern’s Willie Williams finished in the top ten finishing in eighth place finish in the 8k along with Daniel Simon who finished in twelfth place, John Haynes in fourteenth place, Ernest Sip in fifteenth place and, Victor Nichols in twentiethplace.
In Women’s, Tessni Carruthers of Nicholls State University finished first in the 5k race, Angelica Caraballo, Amber Crews, and Shanel Zenon all earned a top five school slot as a group.
Caraballo finished with a time of 20:48.5, Crews with a time of 21:05.0, and Zenon with a time of 24:00.2.
In the Women’s team Finals NSU finished in first, ULL, finished second and UNO finished third.
Head coach Brian Johnson said that Caraballo actually ran really well, Crews and Zenon all ran well at the Invite.
“My overall thoughts were great I was actually impressed we did a great job, my distance coach Melanie Gilbert is doing a great job getting them up in the morning and getting up in the evening at 5:30, I was actually impressed thought we did better then what I expected at this early stage in the first meet of the year,” said Johnson.
The Jaguars will have a week to prepare for their next meet on September 25 to compete in the Louisiana State University Invite.
“We are coming along really well conditioning wise this week we have LSU coming
up and hopefully we can put up a better showing then we did at ULL,” Johnson said.