AMERICUS, GA – The Francis Marion University men's and women's cross country teams placed 10th and 12th respectively at the 2013 Peach Belt Conference championship meet, held Saturday morning (Oct. 26) and hosted by Georgia Southwestern State University.

Freshman Jeremiah Hayes led the Patriot men with a 71st-place finish.  The Latta native finished the 8,000-meter course in 28:57.  Freshman Justin Woodard was 73rd in 29:18, followed by junior Justin Koehn in 75th (29:34), freshman Aaron Robinson in 78th (30:18), freshman Gino Lucarelli in 81st (31:12), senior Michael Bigelow in 83th (32:00), and freshman Mark Anthony-Holden in 84th (35:15).  Four of the Patriot freshman – Hayes, Woodard, Robinson, and Lucarelli – all posted personal-best times for the 8K distance.

Senior Rebeccah Hoekstra paced the FMU women with a 41st-place showing.  She posted a time of 23:42 over the 6,000-meter course.  Senior Whitney Wagner finished 49th in a personal-best time of 24:03, followed by junior Hayden Clapper in 73rd position (25:31), freshman Ashley Wingate in 80^th (26:11), senior Diana Levy in 90th (personal-best 27:07), senior London Barnhill in 96th (29:38), freshman Emmeline Wheeler in 97th (30:08), junior Kasey Bradley in 99th (31:52), and freshman Nicole Edlmann in 100th (32:34).

MEN'S RESULTS                WOMEN'S RESULTS

The FMU women's team is scheduled to run in the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship Meet, Nov. 9, in Charlotte, N.C.

GRU Augusta captured the men's team title by virtue of league tie-breaking rules after finishing in a dead heat with Columbus State University at 47 points apiece.  Flagler College won the women's team championship.