CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Longwood University posted 875 points in men's cross country to finish 31st among 34 teams at the 2012 NCAA Southeast Regional Cross Country Championships on Friday at McAlpine Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. The University of Virginia won the team title with 64 points, while Soufiane Bouchikhi of Eastern Kentucky University was the individual race winner with his time of 29:32 over the 10K course. The Lancers were led by senior
Sean Flynn|Goodview (Roanoke Catholic) with his new school-record time of 33:33 to place 155th among the field of 228 competitors. Longwood has now completed its 2012 team campaign.
Flynn ran three-seconds faster than the previous 10K record of 33:36 posted by Evan Kearney in 2007, and was followed across the finish line by freshmen
Adam Link|Williamsburg (Walsingham Academy) (33:55, 176th) and
Seth Taylor|Chesapeake (Grassfield) (34:14, 186th), along with sophomores
Trey Thomas|Stafford (Mountain View) (34:19, 189th),
Russell Reed|Onemo (Mathews) (34:21, 190th) and
Nick Reed|Fairfax (Robinson) (35:29, 212th). Link posted the third-fastest 10K in the 12-year history of the program, Taylor the fifth-fastest, Thomas tied for the sixth-fastest and
Russell Reed posted the eighth-fastest 10K time.
