HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Junior Alex Nolan raced to a top-20 finish to lead University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country to an 11th-place showing in the 48-team Southern Showcase Friday morning at the John Hunt Cross Country Course in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nolan finished the eight-kilometer race in 24 minutes, 06.6 seconds to place 19th out of 449 competitors. He was less than 30 seconds shy of a top-10 finish and less than a minute off the winning pace, set by Alabama’s Dismus Lokira.
As a team, the Screaming Eagles registered 335 points, just 14 behind host Jacksonville State and a top-10 finish. USI finished ahead of Atlantic Coast Conference members Miami (Fla.) and Florida State, who were 12th and 13th, respectively.
USI also got strong performances out of senior Dominick Beine as well as juniors Isaac Stanford and Landen Swiney. Beine was 55th with a time of 24:34.4, while Stanford and Swiney were 85th and 99th, respectively.
Freshman Kraedyn Young made his collegiate debut with a finish of 103rd, while red-shirt freshmen James Haggerty and Ben Perulfi rounded out the Screaming Eagles’ scoring with respective placements of 111th and 157th.
The Screaming Eagles return to action next Friday, September 19, when they compete at the Oscar Moore Invitational in Carbondale, Illinois.
