Complete Results

MADISON, Wis. – The No. 25 Eastern Kentucky University men's cross country team squared off against most of the top teams in the country at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational on Friday at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course.
 
Twenty of the top-30 teams in the country were represented in the loaded field.
 
The Colonels took 22^nd out of 33 teams, scoring 579 points.
 
Freshman Ezekiel Rop paced EKU by finishing 13^th out of 230 competitors with an 8K time of 23:54.7.
 
The next four Colonels all finished within 10 seconds of each other. Junior Zak Kirk was second on the team and 129^th overall with a time of 24:50.2. Sophomore Remi Schyns (136^th / 24:52.2) and freshmen Nikodem Dworczak (147^th / 24:57.0) and Enock Kipchumba (154^th / 25:00.3) rounded out the scoring five.
 
Eastern defeated a pair of ranked teams in No. 12 Syracuse and No. 30 Wyoming.
 
The Colonels also defeated the likes of Michigan State, Colorado State, Harvard, New Mexico, Wake Forest and Washington State.
 
The EKU women will compete at the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational on Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana.