XC | Personal Bests Fuel Gaels at UC Riverside Invitational

Saturday, September 17

Riverside, CA

7:50 am

Saint Mary's College of California

UC Riverside Invite

Photo by: Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner

XC | Personal Bests Fuel Gaels at UC Riverside Invitational

9/17/2022 9:16:00 AM | Cross Country

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Saint Mary's Men's Cross Country Team competed in the UC Riverside Invitational on Saturday morning which saw five Gaels run personal bests in the 8K race.

The Gaels, who finished 20^th out of 30 teams, were led by sophomore Blaine Reynolds. The San Mateo finished 52^nd in a time of 24:34.8, a personal best by over 30 seconds. Sam Tyas and Curtis Volf followed Reynolds with times of 25:17.6 and 25:17.9, finishing in 126^th and 127^th respectively. Volf's 25:17.9, a personal best by nearly a minute, proved to be the biggest personal improvement of the day for the Gaels.

Richard McLain followed Volf, finishing 162^nd in a time of 25:34.8 for the Gaels, with teammate Luke Bland not far behind finishing in a time of 25:37.0. Bland's time was another personal best, an 18 second improvement.

Junior Thomas Osborne was next to finish for Saint Mary's, claiming 191^st in a personal best time of 25:54.9. Freshman Noah Pagaran also ran a solid race for the Gaels, finishing just behind Osborne with a time of 25:58.3.

Troy Coulston and Angel Castro rounded out the field for the Gaels, as they finished 201^st and 205^threspectively. Coulston's 26:01.2 was a 44 second improvement on his previous personal best.

UP NEXT
Both the Men's and Women's Saint Mary's Cross-Country teams will next head down to Lodi, California where they'll compete in the Pacific Invite on September 30.

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