Reichow leads Jacks at Midwest Regional

Friday, November 11

Iowa City, Iowa

Noon

South Dakota State University

NCAA Midwest Regional

Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia Sports Media

11/11/2016 3:38:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

Results

Men's XC finishes 6th of 26 teams at Midwest Regional

IOWA CITY, Iowa—Senior Joel Reichow finished third overall to lead the Jacks to a sixth-place finish at the 2016 NCAA Midwest Region Championships Friday at Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City, Iowa.

"I thought we ran great today," said 13^th-year head coach Rod DeHaven. "Obviously, I'm very, very proud of Joel [Reichow]. And as a team, if you look at the final results, Bradley beats us by about 14 seconds. Were basically right with them. We're not far behind Iowa State, who is ranked 13^th in the country. You take where these guys were in high school, there's no way you would have thought that they could have done that. We're a top-40 team nationally. I'm just extremely proud of their effort."

The Jackrabbits got off to a bit of a slow start. At the midway point, the Jacks were in 15^th place. After making up a little bit of ground on the rest of the field, SDSU was in ninth with 1,000-meters to go. They ended up passing Minnesota, Kansas and Oklahoma to secure sixth place—tying their best-ever finish at the Midwest Regional. The Jacks finished with 154 points.

Reichow (third, 30:21.8) led the way, finishing third overall and keeping his hopes alive to repeat as an all-American in 2016. Sophomore Ayub Kassim finished in 30:55.6 for 26^th, narrowly missing all-region honors. Sophomore Kyle Burdick (31:06.0) and senior Trevor Capra (31:06.4) finished 38^th and 39^th, and redshirt-freshman Chase Cayo (52^nd, 31:21.9) rounded out the scoring for the Jacks.

Also competing for the Jacks were Brendan Sage (61^st, 31:33.1) and Micah Mather (98^th, 32:15.7).

Oklahoma State won the race for the 11^th time in the past 12 years, posting a score of 64. Tulsa finished runner-up with 89 points, claiming the second automatic berth to the NCAA Championships next weekend in Terre Haute, Ind.

Notes

Reichow likely earned an individual selection to the NCAA Championships Saturday, Nov. 19 in Terre Haute, Ind. The NCAA selection committee selects the top four individual performers within the top 25 in each region that were not on a team that qualified to compete at the NCAA Championships. The NCAA selection committee will make the announcement this Saturday of at-large teams and individuals that will make the tournament.
Reichow finished in sixth place at the Midwest Regional in 2015.
Four of the Jackrabbits seven competitors—Kassim, Burdick, Cayo, Mather—set new 10K personal-bests at the NCAA Midwest Regional.

-GoJacks.com-