Aggies host Invitational on A&M campus Friday evening

Track and FieldSeptember 09, 2010

Aggies host Invitational on A&M campus Friday evening

Texas A&M's cross country team will compete on its home course at the Penberthy Intramural Fields on Friday afternoon with high school competition also included. Admission is free and the start time f

Sept. 9, 2010

COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M's cross country team will compete on its home course at the Penberthy Intramural Fields on Friday afternoon with high school competition also included. Admission is free and the start time for the event is 5:30 p.m. University races will begin at 6:20 p.m. for the women and 7:35 p.m. for the men.

The collegiate competition will include 15 schools, many of which are from the South Central Region. The high school division has 50-plus schools with 1,600-plus runners.

Ranked men's teams in the South Central Region scheduled to compete at the Texas A&M Invitational include the No. 3 Aggies, No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Baylor, and No. 15 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Women's teams ranked in the region include No. 1 Baylor, No. 2 Rice, No. 4 SMU, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 7 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, and No. 12 Texas State.

Other schools in the team-scored university divisions include Houston Baptist, Monterrey Tech, Northwood, Prairie View A&M, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M-International, Texas-Pan American and Trinity.

The Aggie squad, which competed at altitude in New Mexico to begin the season last week, will have 16 men and 11 women competing in the 8,000-meter men's race and the 5,000-meter women's race. The high school races will cover 5,000 meters and 3,200 meters.

MacLean O'Donnell led the men's team at the Lobo Invitational with a fifth-place finish while Kevin Burnett placed 15th. Those two will likely lead the A&M squad again this week along with James Hodges, who will run his first race of the season. The Aggie women had a pair of top 10 finishers in Albuquerque with Katherine Devlin and Natosha Rogers as they placed sixth and eighth, separated by one second.

TEXAS A&M INVITATIONAL - Friday, September 10, 2010 - Penberthy Intramural Fields

Time Schedule

5:25 p.m. National Anthem

5:30 p.m. 5A-4A Boys (5,000m)

5:55 p.m. 3A-2A-1A Boys (5,000m)

6:20 p.m. UNIVERSITY Women (5,000m)

6:45 p.m. High School Seeded Girls (5,000m)

7:10 p.m. High School Seeded Boys (5,000m)

7:35 p.m. UNIVERSITY Men (8,000m)

8:15 p.m. 3A-2A-1A Girls (3,200m)

8:40 p.m. 5A-4A Girls (White Race - 3,200m)

9:05 p.m. 5A-4A Girls (Maroon Race - 3,200m)