RACE RESULTS

BRIDGEWATER, Va. -- Junior Jackson Herndon (Chatham) posted a collegiate-best 6K time of 21:38.0 to lead Hampden-Sydney College to a fourth-place finish at the Eagle Cross Country Challenge hosted by Bridgewater College on Friday evening in Bridgewater. Herndon placed 16th among 73 runners as the Tigers totaled 114 points to finish fourth among seven teams. Roanoke College won the team race with its 15 points, while Shane Stevens of the Maroons was the individual winner with a time of 19:16.0.

Herndon was followed on the Bridgewater College Course by sophomore Jordan Chorbaji (Charlottesville) (22:01.1, 22nd), senior Winston Ransone (Midlothian) (22:06.3, 27th), along with juniors Kam Maldonado (Palm Bay, FL) (22:39.5, 39th) and Dylan Evans (Virginia Beach) (22:58.0, 42nd) among the Tigers' top five. Chorbaji, Ransone, Maldonado and Evans also posted new collegiate-best times for the distance.

Also competing for H-SC were freshman Jack Ruble (Floyd) (25:39.2, 62nd), junior Davis Mills (Sanford, NC) (30:18.3, 70th) and sophomore William Cole (Virginia Beach) (30:54.8, 72nd). Ruble was running the distance for the first time in college, while Cole posted a new collegiate-best time for the distance, as well. It was the program's first competition under the direction of first-year head coach Jared Deaton.

H-SC will race again at the Lancer Home Open, an 8K event hosted by nearby Longwood University on Saturday, September 6, at 10 a.m. at the former Longwood Golf Course in Farmville.