Cameron Aggies
Kenton Means, Sports Information Director
LUBBOCK, Texas – The 2020 cross country season wrapped up on Saturday morning as Cameron’s Eduardo Gutierrez and Saulo Yoel competed at the Division II National Invitational.
NCAA D2 XC National Invite Results
Gutierrez, who was CU’s lone All-Lone Star Conference runner just a few weeks ago, finished the 10,000 meter race with a time of 33:44.91, good for 44th place in a race that fielded 89 competitors. Saturday’s performance was not a personal best for the Aggie senior, as he ran a time of 33:08.4 at the South Central Regional race last fall, which he also placed 44th.
Yoel, a transfer senior from East Central, finished the race just seconds back of his fellow Cameron student-athlete, running a time of 34:12.92. The Houston, Texas native finished in 59th place overall, just weeks after placing 25th at the LSC Championship in San Angelo, Texas.
Additionally, Alabama-Huntsville out-ran the other 10 teams in the field, thanks to three runners inside the top-10 and five in the top-15; their total time in the race was 2:42:22.88. Colorado Mesa, West Texas A&M, Fort Lewis, and Nebraska-Kearney rounded out the top-5 teams with LSC members Oklahoma Christian, UT Tyler, and Texas A&M-Commerce in sixth, seventh, and eighth.
CMU’s Tony Torres crossed the finish line first during Saturday’s 10K race with a time of 31:37.68, while A&M-Commerce’s freshman phenom Nicodemus Rotich was the runner-up with a time of 31:52.92. The top-25 runners were named to the DII National Invitational Team.