OU Women Finish Second at Southern Cross Country Stampede

JOPLIN, Mo. -- Freshman Jessica Eldridge finished third overall with a career best 17:32.00 to help lead the OU women to a second place finish in the Southern Stampede Saturday on the Missouri Southern course. The time improved her career best mark by nearly one minute in her second collegiate meet at the 5k distance.

The Sooner men finished fourth in the team standings, paced by freshman Tyler Schmiedeberg's 16th place finish in the 8k race.

Southwest Missouri State won the women's title with 52 points followed by OU with 97. Arkansas won the men's title with 32 points followed by Harding (92), Southwest Missouri (132) and Oklahoma with 157 points.

Nicola Maye finished seventh overall as OU placed three runners in the top 15 and four in the top 25. Maye's time of 17:48.20 also was an improvmeent in her career best by nearly 45 seconds. Catherine Odell was 13th with a career best mark of 18:12.90. Kristi Cook was 22nd with an 18:42.50 and Amanda Luksetich was 52nd with a 19:37.00. Emily Leonard finished the 5k course in 22:56.70.

Cook's time was a career best mark in the 5k as was the time by Luksetich. A senior, Luksetich knocked nearly a minute off a career best she had set as a sophomore.

Schmiedeberg's time of 25:18.60 is a career best. Stuart Lisle finished 24th with a time of 25:38.00 and Andrew Call was 31st with a 25:48.60. Andrew Tower finished 38th with a 26:04.80 followed by Trevor Gillum, who was 48th with a 26:21.70, and Billy Grona, who was 79th with a 27:14.60.

The times by Lisle, Tower, Call, Gillum and Grona were career best marks in an 8k event. Call's time today improved his career best by nearly two minutes.

The Sooners will return to competition on Oct. 4 when the teams split, heading to the Murray Keatinge Invitational in Orono, Maine, and the Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater.

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OU Women Finish Second at Southern Cross Country Stampede

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