{"id":427503,"date":"2026-09-05T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:22:43","slug":"newcomers-shine-in-season-opening-race-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427503\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcomers shine in season-opening race in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     FORT WORTH \u2013 Newcomers led the way for the East Texas A&amp;M University men&#8217;s cross country team in its season-opening race at the John McKenzie Invitational on Friday morning at the AP Ranch.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Lion men took fourth in the first race of the year with 104 points, with junior transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/lionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/samuel-pepe\/7246\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7246\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Pepe<\/a> (Hillsboro) finishing 14th with a time of 16:21.4 in the 5,000 meter race. <a href=\"https:\/\/lionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/ricky-santos\/7249\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7249\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Santos<\/a> (Keene) clocked in at 17:11.5 for 23rd.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/andrew-crosby\/7244\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7244\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Crosby<\/a> (McKinney \u2013 Boyd) finished 27th with a time of 17:37.5, while <a href=\"https:\/\/lionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/christian-james\/7245\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7245\" target=\"_blank\">Christian James<\/a> (Rosharon \u2013 Manvel) timed 17:42.3 for 28th, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lionathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/noah-converse\/7248\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7248\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Converse<\/a> (The Colony) recorded a time of 18:18.7 for 29th.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas&#8217; Connor Bartek came out victorious with a time of 15:34.0. The Mean Green also won the team title, edging out TCU, Tarleton and the Lions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUP NEXT<br \/>\nThe Lions are back on the course in Fort Worth for the Gerald Richey Invitational next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n-ETAMU-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; FORT WORTH \u2013 Newcomers led the way for the East Texas A&amp;M University men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}