The Purple Aces head down to Louisville for the second week in a row
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Â After a small group of runners competed in Louisville last week, the entire University of Evansville track and field team is in town on Friday.
The Purple Aces head back to the Norton Healthcare and Sports Learning Center with their full squad for the PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic hosted by the Knights. After setting a new program record, a podium finish, and three personal bests at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational hosted by Louisville, UE hopes to have another strong weekend in the Ville.
Evansville’s lone new program record last week came in the men’s 400-meter as Cedrik Flipo (Beloeil, Quebec, Canada) ran in 49.11 seconds to break the previous record set in 1977 by Jeff Korb. Freshman Sonja Inzinger (Mautern an der Donau, Austria) had a podium finish in her first collegiate 5000-meter race with a time of 17:42.43 for third place. And personal bests were set by Rafael Rodriguez (Segovia, Spain)Â in the mile race, Samuel Lea (Worchester, England) in the 5K race, and Nayla Martin (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada) in the women’s mile race.
At the PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic, the Aces will run against 24 other NCAA teams along with multiple running clubs. Other Missouri Valley Conference teams in Louisville on Friday include Belmont, Murray State, and Southern Illinois. UE has raced against over half of the teams participating in Friday’s meet including Western Kentucky, Vincennes, Southern Indiana, Miami (OH), Marshall, Louisville, Eastern Kentucky, Bellarmine, Lipscomb, and Jacksonville State.
