FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Texas Men’s Cross Country captured the team title at the Chile Pepper Festival McDonnell Memorial 8K on Saturday, scoring 64 points at Agri Park. The Texas women placed sixth in the Harter’s Habanero 5K with 197 points.<\/p>\n
Hudson Bennett<\/a> led the Longhorns with a third-place finish overall in the men’s 8K in 24:09.8. Bennett moved from eighth at the mile split to seventh at the 5.5K split before closing strong to secure a top-three finish.<\/p>\n Joaquin De La Cruz<\/a> finished sixth and recorded a new 8K best of 24:15.7, while freshman Kai McCullough<\/a> was seventh in 24:20.4. Zain Hamdani<\/a> placed 18th in 24:41.6 and Colby Huntress<\/a> rounded out the scoring five in 33rd in 25:12.9. Ezekiel Kipkorir<\/a> finished 74th in 25:56.01.<\/p>\n The Texas women were led by Aishling Callanan<\/a>, who finished 20th in 17:00.1. Mia Perez<\/a> placed 29th in 17:16.0, followed by Lili Denton<\/a> in 43rd at 17:36.4, Cara Sims<\/a> in 47th at 17:40.3 and Grace Kowalski<\/a> in 64th at 17:54.4. Kaylin Rendon<\/a> finished 67th in 17:57.3, while McKale Lee<\/a> was 138th in 18:46.2. Six of the seven Longhorns established new 5K bests, led by Callanan, Perez, Denton, Sims, Kowalski and Lee.<\/p>\n The Longhorns return to action Friday, Oct. 16, at the Arturo Barrios Invitational in College Station, Texas. The meet will mark Texas’ second competition of the season at the Watts Cross Country Course, which will host the NCAA South Central Regional.<\/p>\n Next up, the Longhorns head to College Station, Texas for the Arturo Barrios Invitational on the Watts Cross Country Course. This will be the second race of the year for the Longhorns in College Station on the course that will serve as the site of the NCAA South Central Regional.<\/p>\n Women’s 5K Results Men’s 8K Results Full Team Results Men: 1. Texas \u2013 64; 2. North Texas \u2013 103; 3. UTEP \u2013 137; 4. Oklahoma Baptist \u2013 172; 5. East Central (OK) \u2013 191; 6. Missouri Western \u2013 216; 7. UT Arlington \u2013 252; 8. Dallas Baptist \u2013 255; 9. Hutchinson (KS) CC \u2013 281; 10. Oral Roberts \u2013 296; 11. Crowder (MO) \u2013 305; 12. Ouachita Baptist \u2013 359; 13. St. Thomas (TX) \u2013 374; 14. UT Tyler \u2013 388; 15. Butler (KS) CC \u2013 411; 16. Baylor \u2013 420; 17. Houston Christian \u2013 433; 18. Kansas City \u2013 439; 19. Texas Southern \u2013 450; 20. Little Rock \u2013 459; 21. Memphis \u2013 460; 22. St. Edward’s \u2013 515; 23. El Paso (TX) CC \u2013 576; 24. NW Oklahoma State \u2013 582; 25. State Fair (MO) \u2013 694; 26. Arkansas-Pine Bluff \u2013 834.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Texas Men’s Cross Country captured the team title at the Chile Pepper Festival McDonnell Memorial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-455505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455505","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=455505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n20. Aishling Callanan<\/a> \u2013 17:00.1 (PB)
\n29. Mia Perez<\/a> \u2013 17:16.0 (PB)
\n43. Lili Denton<\/a> \u2013 17:36.4 (PB)
\n47. Cara Sims<\/a> \u2013 17:40.3 (PB)
\n64. Grace Kowalski<\/a> \u2013 17:54.4 (PB)
\n67. Kaylin Rendon<\/a> \u201317:57.3
\n138. McKale Lee<\/a> \u2013 18:46.2 (PB)<\/p>\n
\n3. Hudson Bennett<\/a> \u2013 24:09.8
\n6. Joaquin De La Cruz<\/a> \u2013 24:15.7 (PB)
\n7. Kai McCullough<\/a> \u2013 24:20.4
\n18. Zain Hamdani<\/a> \u2013 24:41.6
\n33. Colby Huntress<\/a> \u2013 25:12.9
\n74. Ezekiel Kipkorir<\/a> \u2013 25:56.01<\/p>\n
\nWomen: 1. Arkansas \u2013 69; 2. Mississippi State \u2013 83; 3. Tulsa \u2013 89; 4. UT Arlington \u2013 178; 5. East Central (OK) \u2013 187; 6. Texas \u2013 197; 7. Missouri State \u2013 199; 8. Baylor \u2013 202; 9. North Texas \u2013 240; 10. Southern Miss \u2013 263; 11. Dallas Baptist \u2013 294; 12. Houston Christian \u2013 303; 13. Oklahoma Baptist \u2013 331; 14. Oral Roberts \u2013 357; 15. Ouachita Baptist \u2013 405; 16. St. Edward’s \u2013 478; 17. UT Tyler \u2013 533; 18. Central Oklahoma \u2013 561; 19. El Paso (TX) CC \u2013 576; 20. Weatherford (TX) \u2013 597; 21. Memphis \u2013 617; 22. Texas Southern \u2013 626; 23. St. Thomas (TX) \u2013 642; 24. Little Rock \u2013 645; 25. SE Oklahoma State \u2013 654; 26. Butler (KS) CC \u2013 696; 27. Arkansas-Pine Bluff \u2013 824; 28. Kansas City \u2013 826<\/p>\n