Bulls Finish Sixth, Eighth at South Florida Invitational
TAMPA, OCT. 12, 2018 – The USF cross country team put the finishing touches on its regular season Friday afternoon with a sixth-place finish from its men's team and an eighth-place showing by its women's team at the South Florida Invitational from The Claw at the USF Golf Facility.
Six Bulls on the men's team finished in the top 50 of the 8K race, led by freshman
Danny Ferro (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) taking 20th overall with a time of 28:49.75. Crossing the finish line next, sophomore
Matt Neeley (St. Johns, Fla.), placed 21st with a time of 28:51.18. The Bulls also had another top 30 finish, as sophomore
Evan Babatz (Ft. Myers, Fla.) finished 29
th overall with a time of 29:14.25.
Sophomore
Austin Camps (Melbourne, Fla.), sophomore
Ricardo Reyes (Tampa, Fla.), junior
Daniel Eagan (Ft. Myers, Fla.) and sophomore
Justin Haber (Boca Raton, Fla.) also had top 50 finishes.
The women's team had six runners finish the race within the top 50, paced by senior
Yaranel Abreu's (St. Augustine, Fla.) time of 19:56.42 en route to a 29th-place finish.
Junior
Claire Farnsworth (Lecanto, Fla.) and senior
Brianna Rischar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) finished the race within seconds of each other with respective times of 20:04.51 and 20:07.58 to place 31st and 32nd.
Three other Bulls finished among the top 50 — junior
Keschel Hernandez (Westminster, Colo.), sophomore
Annie Allmark (Riviera Beach, Fla.) and freshman
Mallory Jones finished 43
rd, 45
th and 47
th place, respectively.
QUOTABLES:
"Our team place was off a bit because two of our tops girls didn't finish the race, but we had a lot of good individual performances. The men's team was also off because one of our runners is out for the rest of the season with an injury, and another runner won't race until the conference championships. Overall, this was a great meet with loads of competition, so we just have to put it together as a team at conference championships in two weeks." — Head Coach
Dena Reif.
TEAM RESULTS – WOMEN
- FIU (45)
- Florida Gulf Coast (94)
- UCF (105)
- Florida (107)
- Florida Atlantic (124)
- Miami (126)
- Jacksonville (142)
- USF (180)
- Stetson (219)
- Bethune-Cookman (221)
TEAM RESULTS – MEN
- Florida Gulf Coast (41)
- Stetson (55)
- Florida Atlantic (93)
- Bethune-Cookman (112)
- Florida (130)
- USF (148)
- FIU (165)
- Miami (181)
- Jacksonville (218)
UP NEXT:
USF returns to action Friday, Oct. 25 when travel to New Orleans, La., to compete at the American Athletic Conference Championships. Competition begins at 10:50 a.m. with the women's 5K race and will be followed by the men's 8K race at 11:50 a.m.
About USF Cross Country
Dena Reif is in her seventh season as the head coach of USF cross country. The history of USF's women's program consists of five conference and two region championships as well as five NCAA qualifying teams. The USF men's program has produced seven conference championships and three NCAA qualifying teams.
