University of St. Thomas Athletics
NCAA Regional
Men's CC runs well, takes fifth of 27 at regionals
11/15/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
No. 34-ranked St. Thomas Men's Cross Country had a solid race at Saturday's NCAA Regional race in Pella, Iowa, and placed fifth out of 27 teams.
The Tommies will wait until Sunday to see if they have a deep enough season resume to take an NCAA at-large berth.
St. Olaf (21) and Loras (78) took first and second out of 27 teams and claimed the automatic team qualifying berths.
Central (82), Wartburg (132) and St. Thomas (156) placed 3-4-5 to lead the region's at-large contenders.
Rounding out the top eight were Luther (190), Wartburg (226) and St. John's (259).
UST sophomore Jacob Gerhartz had a personal-best time of 25:20 and placed 15th. He improved 13 spots and 33 seconds from his 2013 regional performance.
Junior Dylan Baumann was 18th in a career-best 25:28. He improved 68 places and 1:55 from his regional showing of 2013.
Senior Robby Williams placed 30th in 25:46 -- a 31-second time drop from the 2013 regionals.
Sophomore Trevor Smith ran his first regional race and was 46th in 26:06. Senior Brian Anderson was 47th in 26:06 and dropped 57 seconds and 29 places off his 2013 regionals showing.
Senior Ben Rascher was 53rd in 26:14 and senior Sam Bach was 74th in 26:35.
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