Oct. 28, 2006
BATON ROUGE, La. -
The Auburn women's cross country team finished in 10 place (251 points), while the men finished in 11th (301 points) at the SEC Championships at Highland Road Park in Baton Rouge on Saturday morning. The 11th place finish for the men snapped a streak of two-straight top-five finishes at the conference meet.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>
On the women's side, the Tigers were led by freshmen Sabrina Fischer (21:50.12) and Laurel Pritchard (21:50.94), who finished 41st and 42nd, respectively. Junior Megan Karl placed 63rd (22:34.60), while freshman Katelyn Simpson came in 67th (22:45.34). Rounding out the scoring for AU was junior Jessica Smith (23:08.90), who placed 74th. Also competing for <?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Auburn was junior Denise Daughenbaugh, who finished 98th (24:10.95) and freshman Kristen Hiott, who came in 105th (24:38.39).
Arkansas took home the team title with 17 points. They featured four runners in the top five and six runners in the top-10. Arkansas freshman Brooke Upshaw won the individual title with a time of 20:14.90.
On the men's side, AU was led by freshman Scott Novack (26:07.85), who finished 52nd. Sophomore Chase Oliver placed 64th (26:31.32), while senior Joey Giattino came in 70th (26:42.12) in his first race of the season. A pair of freshmen rounded out the scoring for Auburn as Simon Nyang (26:43.09) came in 71st and freshman Mark Fleming (26:45.28) placed 73rd. Sophomore Elliot Smith placed 74th (26:49.57) and freshman Josh Pawlik came in 77th (27:00.84). Freshman David Wall came in 89th (28:05.37) and junior Zach Olsen placed 94th (29:32.60) for the Tigers.
Arkansas won the men's team title with 21 points, combining with the women to sweep. The Razorbacks had four runners in the top-five and five runners in the top-seven. Ole Miss freshman Barnabus Kirui won the team title with a time of 23:53.24.
The Auburn men and women will next run at the NCAA South Regional in Knoxville, Tenn., on Nov. 11.
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