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Flagler Claims PBC Men’ s Cross Country Championship
Flagler’ s Brian Beil was voted the PBC Coach of the Year by the league’ s head coaches following the event. The award is his first.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, GA – Flagler College placed four runners in the top 15 and won the 2016 PBC Men’ s Cross Country Championship on Saturday morning in Milledgeville. The title is the first in men’ s cross country for the Saints, who held off second-place Montevallo and third-place Augusta University. Flagler finished the event with 56 points.
Augusta and UNC Pembroke were tied with 92 points apiece in third place, but Augusta claimed the spot on their own with the NCAA tiebreaker.
Young Harris’ Tim Asis won the PBC Individual Championship, covering the 8k course at the Council Farm in 24:42.6. That is the 10th-fastest time ever run in a PBC Championship event. The sophomore from Eldoret, Kenya, was 10 seconds ahead of Armstrong State’ s Henning Schein. Montevallo’ s Donny Barnes was third with the Augsuta duo of Dylan Forester and Daniel Broadhead finishing fourth and fifth. The top 15 runners were named PBC All-Conference. Flagler’ s Kray Hubner finished seventh overall and was the first freshman to cross the line and earned PBC Freshman of the Year honors. Hubner ran the event in 25:33.6 and became the first Saint to be named the Freshman of the Year since Corey Mundy in 2011.
YHC’ s Asis, Armstrong’ s Schein Qualify for NCAA Men’ s XC National Championship
MONTEVALLO, ALA – Young Harris’ Tim Asis and Armstrong State’ s Henning Schein were among the top three runners not on an advancing team at the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship on Saturday in Montevallo, Ala. The two runners will advance to the NCAA National Championships in Saint Leo, Fla., on Nov. 19th.
Asis, the PBC individual champion two weeks ago, finished second overall with a time of 30:02.4 on the 10k course at the University of Montevallo. He was just 13 seconds off the lead set by Mount Olive’ s Adam Craig and finished two seconds ahead of Mt. Olive’ s Jonathan Dahlke. Asis becomes the second straight Young Harris runner to qualify for nationals after teammate Mathew Biwott did it last year.
Schein becomes the first Pirate men’ s cross country runner to ever advance to the nationals as he finished fifth overall in a time of 30:37.7. He bested the Armstrong State school record in a 10k by more than two minutes in the process and set a personal best at that distance. The Vellmar, Germany, native joins three Armstrong State women’ s runners- Gabi Hauck( 1994), Patty Kaplan( 1995) and Nikki Garland( 1997)- as the only Pirates to represent the school at the
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