BRONX, N.Y. - The No. 13 Arkansas men’s cross country team returns to action on Saturday morning (Sept. 20) as they head to The Empire State to compete in the 2014 Iona College Paddy Doyle Meet of Champions. The 8k race is scheduled to start at 10:15 a.m. at Van Cortlandt Park.
Arkansas will compete against runners from Albany, Army, Binghamton, Brown, Buffalo, Central Connecticut State, Connecticut College, Dowling, Edinboro, Fordham, Hofstra, Indiana (Pa.), IPFW, Kent State, Monroe College, NYIT, Princeton, St. Francis (N.Y.), St. John’s, UMass Lowell, Yale, Youngstown State and host-school No. 12 Iona.
Head coach Chris Bucknam will send 11 runners to the meet, as senior Stanley Kebenei, redshirt juniors Gabe Gonzales, Patrick Rono and Andrew Pisechko, junior Cale Wallace, redshirt sophomores Aidan Swain and Christian Heymsfield, sophomore Noah Findlay, and freshmen Alex George, Austen Dalquist, Ethan Moehn will represent the Razorbacks.
In their last outing on Aug. 30, Arkansas ran on a four-mile course at the Hurricane Cross Country Festival in Tulsa, Okla. The meet was scored as five separate dual meets, and the Razorbacks went 4-1 that day, defeating Tulsa (17-42), Oklahoma (21-36), Wichita State (19-41), and Louisiana-Monroe (19-43). The lone loss came to No. 4 Oklahoma State, who beat Arkansas 25-30.
Gonzalez paced the Razorbacks that day, as he finished second in the race with a time of 20:10. Arkansas had two other runners finish in the top 10, with Heymsfield placing fifth (20:17) and Wallace taking sixth with his 20:18 pace.
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Runners to Compete For Arkansas
- Senior Stanley Kebenei
- R-Jr., Gabe Gonzales
- R-Jr., Patrick Rono
- R-Jr., Andrew Pisechko
- Jr., Cale Wallace
- R-So., Aidan Swain
- R-So., Christian Heymsfield
- So., Noah Findlay
- Fr., Alex George
- Fr., Austen Dalquist
- Fr., Ethan Moehn
- Albany
- Army
- Binghamton
- Brown
- Buffalo
- Central Connecticut State
- Connecticut College
- Dowling
- Edinboro
- Fordham
- Hofstra
- Indiana (Pa.)
- IPFW
- Kent State
- Monroe College
- NYIT
- Princeton
- St. Francis (N.Y.)
- St. John’s
- UMass Lowell
- Yale
- Youngstown State
- Iona