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o weeks ago in Seattle, the Aggies
re ready to come home to the an
al Texas A&M Cross Country In-
ational and flex their muscles for
ehome fans.
After all, in the 11 years A&M has
sted the event the home team has
rer taken home first place as a
m. That was all supposed to
e to an end Friday.
For the women, it did. Sopho-
reand top finisher Andrea Book-
led the Aggie charge with her
rth place finish, with Brooke Ed-
rdsand Melissa Gulli also finish-
in the top ten, tying Rice for the
ist representatives.
Bookout was pleased with her
formance, but not ecstatic."It was
,I felt pretty tired,” Bookout said,
know, during my race, that I
wld have been running faster, I
tuld have run harder when I
;ded to.”
Kaycie Waters was ecstatic -
)ut the team win.
‘It’s just awesome,” Waters said,
be on this team and to be working
hard in practice and to have it pay
in the meets - it’s really exciting.”
Coach Dave Hartman was also
y encouraged by the way his
men came out and performed.
“The women ran great,” Hart-
m said. “They went right to the
nt and really controlled the tem-
of the race. Overall, they ran a su-
rb race. ”
The men had the same expecta-
insasthe women, looking for their
win in their home meet, but the
bpetition was stiff with the Uni-
|rsity of Texas and Rice University,
ving to be too much in the team
iwell as individual categories.
H Two Aggies did, however, finish
Ithetop ten. Fifth year seniors Scott
pgefeld and Steven Erath pulled
7/Mexperience to finish fourth
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The Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Teams hosted the
Texas A&M Invitational this weekend, finishing third and first, respective-
and sixth, respectively, but the next
Aggie finisher was not until Mike
Hummel at 17. With the way scor
ing works in cross country, finishing
that far apart will not win team titles.
Hartman knows that and was
duly disappointed in his men.
“Right now, I hope we got third,”
Hartman said. “I think Rice and t.u.
beat us and that’s obviously not the
results we were looking for.”
Even though it was disappointing
for the Aggies that they did not win
the team title, they know this is not
their ultimate goal. All that matters
is the conference and NCAA meets,
and that is what the Aggies hope to
dominate.
Hartman saicj the upcoming meets
will be the main focus of the Aggies.
“I’d rather get our butts kicked to
day,” Hartman said. “And turn
around and do some butt-kicking in
November [when the NCAA meet
takes place].”
Top finisher Lengefeld echoed
that sentiment just after his race.
“We’re training for a race No
vember 13th, that’s the race we want
to run well at,” Lengefeld said.
“Now don’t get me wrong, we can’t
continue to lose to Texas and Rice
and expect just to turn it on in that
one day, but we can build from here
and move up, we can get ’em.”
The Aggies will get a great chance
to move up Saturday when they trav
el to Bloomington, Indiana to face 20
of the top 25 teams in the nation for
a pre-NCAA meet.
The next opportunity to see the
Aggies locally will be on Oct. 30
when they host the Big 12 Champi
onships.
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