Concord Claims Team Win at Home Meet

Results

PIPESTEM, W.Va. – The Concord University men's cross country team rolled to a win at the Concord Alumni Invite Friday afternoon at Pipestem State Park.

The Mountain Lions scored 18 points for the team victory. Second place was Davis & Elkins with 43 points.

Junior Braden Ward picked up the individual win for Concord as he crossed the finish line in 26:08 for the 8,000-meter course. Ward's effort was backed up by sophomore Brandon Canaday who ran 26:35 and was the runner-up.

Junior AJ Skeens clocked 26:47 for a fourth-place showing. The final two scorers for the Mountain Liosn were Reese Hickey (27:00) in fifth and junior Bramley Childress (27:17) finishing sixth. Also in the top 10 for Concord were freshman Johnny Walkup (eighth/27:24) and junior Andrew Tickle (ninth/27:33).

Graduate student Connor Cormack clocked 28:22 as he finished 13^th while junior Garrett Hatcher came through in 28:54 to place 16^th. Junior Wes Holcomb completed the course in 29:39 as he placed 18^th. Freshman Zach Neal sported a top-20 finish as he clocked 30:19 to finish 19^th.

Concord's next meet will be the Mountain East Conference Championship October 25 at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia.