09/03/2005
Led by sophomore Nick Lewis fifth place finish, the Rhodes men’s cross country team took fifth out of fifteen competing teams in the University of the South Invitational at the Sewanee golf course. Centre College won the meet with 37 points, ahead of Jacksonville State, Birmingham Southern (101), Emory (101), and Rhodes (136). A total of 157 runners finished the race. Jacksonville State’s Josphat Wawere won the race with a time of 26:17.
Lewis covered the rolling eight-kilometer course in 26:46, the fastest Rhodes time at Sewanee since Brian McCarthy ran 26:11 to place 4 th at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships in 2002. Colin Strickland was next for the Lynx, placing 29th in 28:24. Heath Henderson, Will Sheftall, and Scott Barrows finished in a bunch to close out the team’s scoring, placing 35th (28:38), 37th (28:47), and 38th (28:48), respectively. Team captain John Harrison and John Mowrey rounded out Rhodes’ top seven, as they placed 42nd and 47th.
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