{"id":416837,"date":"2026-10-02T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:18:09","slug":"earley-leads-dolphins-to-third-at-flrunners-com-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416837\/","title":{"rendered":"Earley Leads Dolphins to Third at FLRunners.com Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">LAKELAND, Fla &#8212; Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/zachary-earley\/8916\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8916\" target=\"_blank\">Zachary Earley<\/a> finished sixth overall to lead the Jacksonville University men&#8217;s cross country team to a third-place finish Friday morning at the FLRunners.com Invitational at Holloway Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins totaled 64 points, finishing nine points behind runner-up Saint Leo in the seven-team scoring field. Florida Southern won the meet with 25 points.<\/p>\n<p>Earley completed the 8K course in 26:47.05, leading Jacksonville for the third consecutive meet to open the season. He was the second finisher among runners representing collegiate teams, ,and the first among D1 universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/andrew-boyer\/8941\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8941\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Boyer<\/a> followed in 16th place with a time of 28:11.69, improving by more than 40 seconds from his 8K performance at the FSU Pre-Regional two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/ryan-miller\/8920\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8920\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Miller<\/a> crossed in 23rd at 28:32.85, while <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/caleb-brigman\/8914\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8914\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Brigman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/gabe-edwards\/8917\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8917\" target=\"_blank\">Gabe Edwards<\/a> finished just one-tenth of a second apart to complete Jacksonville&#8217;s scoring five. Brigman placed 27th in 29:00.38, followed by Edwards in 28th at 29:00.48.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/liam-ford\/8918\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8918\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Ford<\/a> finished 31st in 29:16.36. <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/robert-welling\/8922\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8922\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Welling<\/a> (29:53.36) and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/zander-kochen\/8919\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8919\" target=\"_blank\">Zander Kochen<\/a> (29:57.38) placed 38th and 39th, respectively, while <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/paul-svilokos\/8921\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8921\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Svilokos<\/a> crossed in 42nd at 30:17.31. <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/diego-corchado\/8915\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8915\" target=\"_blank\">Diego Corchado<\/a> rounded out the Dolphins&#8217; finishers in 51st with a time of 32:13.20.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville returns to competition Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Upstate Invitational in Spartanburg, S.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; LAKELAND, Fla &#8212; Senior Zachary Earley finished sixth overall to lead the Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-416837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}