ABILENE, Texas – West Texas A&M Buffs win 40 points ahead of their second place competitors, TAMU-Commerce, at the Big Country Festival in Abilene, Texas.
WT placed first with 15 points and finished with 9 out of 10 in the top-10. The WT Buffs had the first eight finishes in a row out of 87 runners.
Junior transfer,
William Amponsah from Agona Swedru, Accra, Ghana, claimed the top spot with a 5k time of 14:29.2. Amponsah finished a full 33+ seconds ahead of second-place teammate
Aziz Mohammed. He paced out at 2:54/k, which translates roughly to under 4 minutes and 40 seconds per mile.
Mohammed, a sophomore transfer, finished second with a time of 15:03.8 with a pace of 3:01/k. Followed by his teammates, (3
rd)
Enrico Oddone (15:05.8, 3:01/k), (4
th)
Louis Moreau (15:29.1, 3:06/k), (5
th)
Adrian Legarreta (15:34.4, 3:07/k), (6
th)
Harry Louradour (15:41.6, 3:08/k), (7
th)
Noah Watt (15:43.5, 3:09/k), (8
th)
Prince Mcabelo (15:50.5, 3:10/k) and (10
th)
Jay Hall (15:52.2, 3:10/k).
Grant Sims was the next to score points for WT as the freshman finished in 16 minutes, 19.1 seconds to take 15
th followed by freshmen,
Adrian Solis (16
th),
Michael Riess (23
rd) and senior
Colton Aycock (26
th).
COMING UP NEXT
WT will compete in the Texas Tech Open on Sept. 15.
