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NCAA Championships
Falcons Miss Top 25 at NCAA Cross Country Championships
11/19/2001 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
Nov. 19, 2001
The men's cross country team just missed the top 25 at the NCAA Cross Country Championships Monday by one place. The Falcons finished 26th overall in the men's 10,000-meter race held at Furman University in South Carolina. Brandess Pardue was the Academy's only woman to compete, finished 223rd in the field of 250 competitors in the 6K.
Pardue, who was the Falcons' top runner in the women's Mountain Region Championships, finished the race in 23 minutes, 28 seconds. The top runner for the men's team was David Romero, finishing 75th with a time of 30:42. Chris Acs finished 121st with a time of 31:11, followed by Albert Kelly in 144th place (31:27), and Benjamin Payne, who was 190th with a time of 31:57, Brian Carpenter (221st, 32:39), Jim Blech (229th, 32:57) and Brian Dumm (242nd, 33:44).
The men from the universities of Colorado (90), Stanford (91), Arkansas (118), Northern Arizona (193) and Wisconsin (245) took the top five places. In the 31-team race, Air Force (620) beat Nebraska (661), Texas (679), Alabama (681), Tennessee (722) and Oklahoma State (729). The women from Brigham Young (62) swept the championships, followed by North Carolina State (148), Georgetown (180), Arizona (194) and Stanford (206) in the top five.
