VANCOUVER, WASH. - The Oklahoma City men's cross country team competed in the NAIA National Championships for the seventh straight season finishing 11th overall among a field of 36 schools.
Oklahoma City took 11th place after posting a time of 2:10.38 in the 8k meet. OCU competed against 35 other schools at the National Championship site in Vancouver as five of its seven individual runners finished in the top 100 out of 328 total runners.
Beckam Hartis finished 66th overall in the field as Hartis posted his second-best time of the season at 25:58.4.
Elijah White, the freshman out of Moore, followed Hartis with the second-highest time for OCU in the meet. White ran the 8k event in 26:04.6.
Another OCU freshman finished in the top 100 as
Riley Randall came in 80th overall at 26:07.5
David Boulanger, a sophomore from Oklahoma City turned in a time of 26:13.5. Rounding out the top 100 for the Stars was
Damien Williams. The sophomore posted a time of 26:14.4 in his first national event.
Two runners on the women's side represented Oklahoma City in the National Championships with
Cailen Jolley and Ginger Macinnis-Pierce earning the nod. Jolley, a graduate student out of Pauls Valley placed 66th in the field of 331 runners competing and turned in a time of 23:18.5, her second-best of the season in a 6k meet.
Junior out of Oklahoma City, Macinnis-Pierce, turned in her best time of the season of 23:24.0 earning an 80th-place bid.
