- Michael Moiben placed second in his season debut and Jack Johnston finished seventh in the men’s 8k.
- Debora Cherono and Laney Barnes recorded top 25 finishes in the women’s 6k.
- The men’s team finished fifth and the women’s team placed seventh.
COLLEGE STATION - The Arturo Barrios Invitational featured strong competition, with the Aggie men finishing fifth and the women placing seventh. Michael Moiben and Jack Johnston led the way for the men in the 8k, placing second and seventh, respectively, on Friday at the Watts Cross Country Course.
Moiben led the Aggies with a second-place finish (22:51.2), followed by Johnston in seventh (23:09.0), Aiden Gonzalez-Rodiles in 33rd (23:47.1), Alessandro Pasquinucci in 69th (24:10.1) and Gavin Chapa in 101st (24:27.8).
On the women’s side in the 6k race, Debora Cherono led the Aggies with a 22nd-place finish (19:56.8), followed by Laney Barnes in 25th (19:59.9), Megan Roberts in 44th (20:23.1), Emma Little in 61st (20:43.7), Kennady Fontenot in 78th (20:55.1) and Maddie Peters in 141st (21:26.7).
In the women’s competition, the Aggies finished seventh out of 46 teams with 230 points, finishing ahead of LSU and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, ranked No. 5 and No. 7 in the South-Central Region, respectively. In the men’s race, the Aggies outperformed their No. 7 South Central Regional ranking, defeating No. 4 TCU and No. 5 Texas to finish fifth out of 38 teams with 192 points. Division II national title contender Adams State won the race with 42 points, followed by Appalachian State, Houston and San Francisco.
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The Aggies have two weeks before traveling to Columbia, Mo., for the SEC Cross Country Championships Oct. 30. The meet will begin at 8 a.m.
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