11/13/04
The Lynx finished 4th among 20 teams at the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Championships, hosted by Emory University in Atlanta. Senior team captain Matt Wood finished 17th out of 143 athletes and earned NCAA All-Region honors for the third time in his career. Emory won the meet with 42 points, ahead of Centre (82), Mary Washington (127), and Rhodes (132). Washington and Lee junior Nathan Johnson won the race with a time of 26:43 over the muddy and challenging 8,000 meter Georgia Regional Hospital course.
Running without Colin Strickland and Nick Lewis, the team's top 2 runners, both of whom suffered late season injuries, 3 Lynx seniors ran their best races of the season to lead the squad at the Regional Meet. Wood led the way with his 17th place finish in 27:37. Todd Ridley was next, placing 24th in 27:45 and earning his second NCAA All-Region honors in a row. Team captain Matthew Sauter placed 29th in 28:08 as the Lynx third runner. The team's three top seniors have combined for an impressive 6 NCAA All-Region awards throughout their career. Juniors Heath Henderson and John Harrison finished the scoring, placing 30th in 28:09 and 39th in 28:26, respectively. They were the third-best numbers 4 and 5 runners in the region, only behind the top 2 teams at the meet. Rob Moore (52nd in 28:46) was Rhodes' sixth runner for the second straight meet, displacing scorers from all but 4 other teams in the region. Scott Barrows (70th in 29:23) broke into the meet's top half and rounded out the Lynx top 7.
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