Oct. 16, 2015
FRIDAY’S RESULTS: HERE
Closing out the regular season, the Vanderbilt men’s team earned a 17th-place finish on Friday night at the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Jake Van Geffen, coming off a career-best performance two weeks ago at Notre Dame, paced the Commodores again Friday, taking 71st with a time of 26:01.60.
Oklahoma State won the meet in impressive style, placing five runners in the top-10 to finish with 27 points. Texas A&M was second with 95 points and Lipscomb was third with 131.
For Vanderbilt, Nick French was 84th at 26:16.80, Jason Vincze was 96th at 26:24.00, Evan Suzman was 127th at 26:53.10 and Nikolaos Gkotsis was 142nd at 27:12.31.
The meet was Vanderbilt’s final race before the SEC Championships — and it featured some SEC flavor. Vanderbilt was one of five SEC teams in the event, along with Auburn (which finished fourth), Alabama (sixth), LSU (10) and Mississippi State (15th).
Oklahoma State’s Cerake Geberkidane won the meet with a time of 23:40.78, and Alabama’s Antibahs Kosgei was second at 24:17.42. Oklahoma State’s Vegard Oelstad was third at 24:19.49, followed by Samford’s Arse’ne Guillorel in fourth at 24:24.02 and Texas A&M’s Cameron Villarreal in fifth at 24:28.56.
The Commodores now begin preparing for the SEC Championships, which will be held in two weeks in College Station, Texas.
VANDERBILT RESULTS
71 – Jake Van Geffen – 26:01.60
84 – Nick French – 26:16.80
96 – Jason Vincze – 26:24.00
127 – Evan Suzman – 26:53.10
142 – Nikolaos Gkotsis – 27:12.31
147 – Sam Reilly – 27:21.93
157 – Daniel Arthur – 27:31.01
164 – Caleb Casolaro – 27:37.88
197 – Waqqas Fazili – 28:36.70
202 – Sam DeFabrizio – 28:46.32
TEAM RESULTS
1 Oklahoma State 27
2 Texas A&M 95
3 Lipscomb 131
4 Auburn 146
5 North Florida 170
6 Alabama 182
7 Texas-Arlington 237
8 Southern Illinois 245
9 Belmont 258
10 LSU 294
11 South Alabama 294
12 Houston Baptist 320
13 Samford 336
14 Sam Houston St. 343
15 Miss State 348
16 McNeese State 349
17 Vanderbilt 442
18 Louisiana Tech 509
19 Texas-Rio Grande Valley 567
20 Memphis 597
21 Troy 598
22 Ul-Monroe 635
23 Alabama State 742
