By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/b><\/p>\n
LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Fort Hays State men’s cross country team completed the Rim Rock Farm Collegiate Classic on Saturday (Sept. 29) with a strong fourth-place finish. The Tigers led all Division II opponents, defeating fellow-MIAA squad Nebraska-Kearney in a tie with the Lopers holding the advantage in the top spot of the team, but the Tigers were the better squad in the 2-5 spots on the team.<\/p>\n
The Tigers compiled 118 team points in the race, outrunning the other three MIAA teams in the event. Host-school, Kansas, claimed the team title with only 27 points.<\/p>\n
Israel Barco<\/a> finished 15th in the field, crossing the finish line in 25:20.4, shedding nearly 32 seconds off for his new personal-best. Robbie Schmidt<\/a> navigated the course in 25:33.6, finishing 23th overall and fourth among Division II competition. Schmidt set a personal-record in the eight-kilometer race after shaving off 28.5 seconds from his previous-best time.<\/p>\n Alex Barbosa<\/a> (25:42.2) and Justin Moore<\/a> (25:43.1) finished within one second of each other, placing 25th and 26th, respectively. Reed Rome<\/a> rounded out the Tigers scoring after completing the course in 25:48.4, finishing 29nd overall. Barbosa, Moore and Rome each set new personal records in the race.<\/p>\n The Tigers will have two weeks off before hosting the FHSU Tiger Open. The first of four races are slated to commence at 9 a.m. at the Sand Plum Nature Trail in Victoria, Kan. on Saturday, October 13th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Fort Hays State men’s cross country team completed the Rim Rock Farm Collegiate Classic on Saturday (Sept.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[319,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-country","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mxcrimrock.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40614,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions\/40614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}