Miami University
NCAA Great Lakes Regional
Veatch, RedHawks Place 14th at Great Lakes Regional
11/11/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
Nov. 11, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Led by junior Michael Veatch's (Middletown, Ohio) 57th-place finish, the Miami University men's cross country team finished 14th in a 31-team field Saturday afternoon at the Great Lakes Regional Cross Country Championship. Miami finished in front of four conference foes -- Akron, Ohio, Bowling Green and Toledo -- as it finished in the top half of a region featuring five nationally ranked teams.
At the 10K Mel Brodt Cross Country Course, Veatch was the top Miami finisher for the fourth time this season, clocking in at 32:35. A former MAC Runner of the Week and the 2006 Miami Invitational Champion, Veatch finished a little more than a minute and a half behind race winner Corey Nowitzke of Eastern Michigan, who completed the course in 30:57.
Miami placed one additional runner in the meet's top 80 finishers, as sophomore Pat Sovacool (Lakewood, Ohio) finished 78th. Sovacool turned in a time of 33:04, as he placed among Miami's top three finishers for the seventh straight race.
Placing its final three runners within five spots of each other, redshirt freshman Kevin Silver (Beachwood, Ohio), sophomore Brad Untrauer (McCordsville, Ind.) and junior Justin Campbell (East Liverpool, Ohio) finished 91st, 92nd and 96th, respectively. Silver (33:20) and Untrauer (33:23) were separated by only three seconds, while Campbell (33:30) clocked in only seven seconds behind Untrauer.
The RedHawks' two additional runners in the meet were sophomore Ben Famous (St. Louis, Mo.) and freshman Paul Krebs (Kettering, Ohio), and they placed 103rd (33:41) and 105th (33:43), respectively.
Top-ranked Wisconsin (52 points) and Notre Dame (104) earned the region's two automatic bids to the NCAA Championship, while Butler (107), Michigan State (113) and Eastern Michigan (137) rounded out the top five schools.
In addition to placing in front of four MAC schools, 14th-place Miami (414) also topped local rivals Dayton, Xavier and Wright State.
