NEW ORLEANS, La.
-– HCU's men's and women's cross country teams recorded the best finishes at a Southland Conference Championship meet in program history and senior
Arlette Concepcion earned first team all-conference honors for the second consecutive year at Lake Oak Park on Friday morning.
The women ran the 6k first with the Huskies placing third as a team with 110 points, three ahead of New Orleans in fourth. Concepcion, a senior, crossed the finish line in 21:03.89 to place fifth overall and lead the HCU contingent. Her finish follows her second place finish from last season and makes her a repeat first team all-conference honoree. Junior
Eline Mast placed 11
th, finishing in 21:51.01, to earn second team all-SLC recognition.
Destiny Quintanilla came in five spots behind Mast, in 16
th, with a time of 22:21.96. HCU's two other scoring runners were
Katherine Rogers, who placed 35
th with a time of 23:12.24, and
Macie Hunter, who posted a time of 23:38.06 to come in 43
rd.
In the men's 8k, HCU totaled 116 to take third place with fourth place Texas A&M-Corpus Christi nine points behind. Senior
Edouard Lecrivain was the Huskies' top finisher, placing 15
th overall with a time of 25:49.32, with
Colby Kurtz coming in four spots back, in 19
th, with a time of 26:13.39.
Alex Piquart crossed in 26:39.13, placing 29
th, just ahead of
Krzysztof Turski in 26:43.58, in 30
th, and
Raphael Aureau in 26:48.65, placing 32
nd.
Still ahead for HCU is the NCAA South Central Regional meet on Friday, Nov. 15 in Bryan-College Station, Texas with the women's 6k starting at 9:00 a.m. and the men's 10k at 10:00 a.m.
