Full Results
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Wildcats started later on Saturday but ran hard. Fort Valley State cross country raced in the Georgia College Invitational.
Katelyn Hodges and Blanche McCluskey for the Wildcat women and Elijah Taylor and Larry Turner of the men guided the FVSU running efforts.
In the team standings, Flagler took both men's and women's fields and host Georgia College was second in both fields. The Flagler men posted a score of 19 and Georgia College a 48 ahead of FVSU's 232 in eighth. For the women, Flagler scored an 18 and Georgia College had a 45 ahead of seventh-place FVSU at 191.
Dieumerci Ufitimana of Flagler won the men's 8K race by 15 seconds over his teammate Roman Giguet at 25:59.2. Flagler's Iris Theunis and Summer Kingston took the women's side in 19:21.0 and 19:32.9.
Hodges recorded the top Wildcat time of 29:01.8 in the 5k women's field for 30th. McCluskey toed the line in 35th (30:50.9). The other three FVSU runners were in a row of Dalvia McBride (33:36.4), Aquila Kerr (33:37.3) and Zakayla Starling (33:45.1) in 41st, 42nd and 43rd.
Taylor and Turner finished beside each other for the FVSU men in 42nd (39:26.8) and 43rd (40:14.4). Andre Milner crossed the line for 46th in 42:29.1 while Gavon Hall-Higgins and Trenis Edmond completed the runners in 50:14.2 (50th) and 52:16.1 (51st).
FVSU will have next week off before it travels to Blufton, SC, for the USC Beaufort Sand Shark Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 12.
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