DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — The University of The Bahamas men’s cross country runner Lhevinne Joseph lead the team to a 13th place finish in a strong field of 19 Saturday at the Embry-Riddle Cross-Country Classic.
Joseph finished 107th out of a field of 148 runners on the 8km (about 5 miles) in the packed field with a time of 32 minutes 7.13 seconds and averaged 6:27.8 each mile of the course.
The Mingoes finished 13th with 449 points out of 19 teams. Kenold Jean took second spot for The Mingoes in 34:24.39 and averaged 6:55.4 each mile.
Dennis Williamson was the third fastest Mingoe 36:10.24 for an average mile of 7:16.7. In the fourth position for the team was Ralph Wood in 37:19.94 for an average mile of 7:30.7.
Donrick Rolle rounded out the team with a run of 41.08.14 and averaged 8.16.6 each mile.
Joseph said the course was a rough one with lots of tricky hills to manoeuvre.
“There are a lot of hills on the back of the course,” he said. “The goal for the race was stay with the leaders for most of the way but most of those guys are extremely fast. They even felt like Olympic level runners.”
He added that the three-lap course was extremely challenging. “I tried my best to execute,” he said. “My priority was to stay comfortable the first two laps and really push it the last lap.”
Head coach Ednal Rolle said it was not the finish he wanted as he was aiming for top 10 overall.
“This meet was extremely competitive compared to the last time we were here in 2019,” he said.
“These guys today were running under six minutes a mile. That’s extremely fast. Nonetheless we did very well. I’ll take the 13th overall but we know we need to work on distance running and get more runners on the team to really compete.”
In cross-country team competition the top five runners are used for scoring. Points are assigned based on placing with first place getting one point, second place two points, and that convention used throughout. However only the top five from each team will score points. Similar to golf, lower scores are more desirable.
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