Golden Eagle runners to race at Berry College Invitational Saturday
In their final tune-up before running in the Ohio Valley Conference championships in two weeks, the Tennessee Tech women's and men's cross country teams will be in north Georgia Saturday for the Berry College Invitational.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- In their final tune-up before running in the
Ohio Valley Conference championships in two weeks, the Tennessee
Tech women's and men's cross country teams will be in north Georgia
Saturday for the Berry College Invitational.
The meet will feature 17 women's squads and 14 men's teams, with
the 8K men's race beginning at 8:45 a.m. ET and the women's 6K to
follow at 9:30 a.m. ET.
TTU coach Tony Cox will determine the lineup for the OVC meet from the results this weekend. Tech will have eight entries in the men's event and nine running in the women's race.
The TTU men's lineup will include Kolbe Andrzejewski, Matt
Bishop, Daniel Francis, Charlie Jordan, Mike Mahan, Adam McLeod,
Matt Pennycuff and Sterling Smith. Mahan, a junior from Tullahoma,
Tenn., posted Tech's fastest time last week at the TTU
Invitational.
Running for Tech in the women's event will be Rebecca Cline,
Kathryn Forbes, Landry Loving, Amelia McCoy, Beth Miller, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Meghan O'Donoghue, Kara Webb and Peri Winborne. Tech's
top runner this season has been Beth Miller, a senior from
Watertown, Wis.
Results will be posted on the Berry College athletics website
www.berryvikings.com <http://www.berryvikings.com/>as
soon as the races are completed. A complete race review will be
available on TTUsports.com later in the day.
In addition to Tech and host Berry College, schools scheduled to
compete include Chattahoochee Tech, Covenant College, Cumberland
University, Emory University, Fort Valley State, Georgia
Southwestern, Georgia State, Gordon College, LaGrange College,
Point University, Savannah College of Arts and Design, University
of the South, Union College, Wesleyan College, West Georgia
and Young Harris College.
For fans planning to follow the teams to the meet, Berry College
has provided a campus map (click
here). When you enter the campus (2277 Martha Berry Hgy
Mount Berry Ga.), turn right off the roundabout at the flag pole to
get to the course. The course is located on the west side of the
Ford Buildings numbered 3-9 on the map. Parking will be located on
the west and south sides of the Ford complex. Overflow parking will
be available behind Hermann Hall (#2 on the map) and the Science
building (#25 on the map).
