Tulsa cross country teams finish season at Midwest Regional Championship

STILLWATER — The University of Tulsa men’s crosscountry team took third and the women 11th at Friday’s NCAA Midwest Regional Championship on the Greiner Family Cross Country Course.

The American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, Charlie Krasnoff led the Tulsa men with a 12th place finish. Krasnoff navigated the 10K course in 30:29.1. The top four Tulsa runners finished in the same order as the conference meet. Behind Krasnoff was Malte Propp in 16th. Chris McLeod took 20th and Johnny Livingstone placed 30th. Luke Birdseye rounded out the TU scoring as the freshman placed 53rd overall.

Tulsa finished in a tie with Loyola-Chicago with 131. The Hurricane edged out the Ramblers on a tiebreaker, with Tulsa winning spots two, three and four. No. 2 Oklahoma State played host for the race and avenged its loss to the Hurricane a year ago, scoring just 19 points and having five top-10 finishers. The 20th-ranked Iowa State Cyclones scored 56 to take second place.

In the women’s race, freshman Alicen Ashley paced the Golden Hurricane with a 21:25.1 6K time to place 28th overall. It was her second fastest 6K of her season after finishing three seconds over the 21-minute mark at the Loyola Lakefront on Sept. 29.

Chloe Hershenow was the second Hurricane to finish, crossing the line in 41st. Robyn Kowalski, TU’s top finisher in The American Championship, placed 48th. McKenna Terrell took 98th, while Katharina Pesendorfer rounded out the top five scorers with 103rd. Amy Morefield placed 133rd in Friday’s race.