Nicol-Samuel Takes Individual Men’s Crown; Women Win Team Title at UNCW
UNCW Seahawk Invitational Complete Results
WILMINGTON, N.C.-Junior DeLohnni Nicol-Samuel claimed the men's individual win while the Campbell women won their team event Friday evening at the UNC Wilmington Seahawk Invitational.
With the 5K meets scored in dual format, the Camel women's team closed out UNCW 26-49, while Campbell's men were just edged out by the Seahawks, 28-32.
With a new personal best 5K time of 15:24.40, Nicol-Samuel topped UNCW's Wil Zahorodny and his mark of 15:35.40. At last weekend's Campbell Invitational Zahorodny claimed the men's crown, edging Nicol-Samuel in Buies Creek.
All eight Camels finished in the top-25 of the 91 man race, with sophomore Morgan Timiney taking third with a time of 15:46.99. The mark crushed Timiney's former 5K personal-best of 16:36.00, set just last week.
Chris Schulist (7th, 16:08.87), Eric Baldwin (11th, 16:15.37), Colin Lavigne (13th, 16:19.37), Evan Darm (17th, 16:27.49), Clayton Woll (21st, 16:32.21) and Michael Bedell (25th, 16:41.98) rounded out the Camel men's performance. Schulist, Baldwin, Darm, Woll and Bedell all set PR's in the race.
On the women's side, seven Camels finished in the top-12, with Rachel Deline leading the way in second place. The senior notched a time of 18:37.81, just behind Ericka Skinner of Barton, who won the women's individual race with her 18:12.09.
Camels Samantha Robbins and Ashley Mathews finished fourth and fifth, respectively, with times of 19:09.66 and 19:14.95.
Cynthia Navarro (7th, 19:17.64), Laura Verschuren (8th, 19:31.42), Claudia Mundy (10th, 19:45.19), Siera Hagl (12th, 19:50.59), Mary Ellen Spika (17th, 20:12.13), Chelsey Bush (24th, 20:45.79), Sena Bekric (30th, 21:21.05), Courtney Schultz (32nd, 21:28.44) and Morgan Grange (40th, 21:51.97) completed the CU efforts in the meet.
Deline, Mathews, Navarro, Spika, Bekric, Schultz and Grange all recorded 5K personal-bests on Friday.
Next up for the Camels will be the Coastal Carolina Invitational / Big South Preview in Conway, S.C. on Sep. 17.
