Results

WINGATE, N.C. | Young Harris College had its best ever performance at the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship Saturday (Nov. 7) morning hosted by Wingate University at the Wingate Cross Country Facility.
                                                                                                         
The Mountain Lions not only saw their best-ever team finish- 10th - at the meet, but saw one of their runners qualify for the NCAA Division II National Championships Nov. 21 in Joplin, Missouri.
 
Young Harris tallied 332 points in the 8K race to finish in 10th place out of 22 teams.
 
Sophomore Mathew Biwott, which won the Peach Belt Conference Championship Oct. 24, earned an individual berth to nationals as the top runner not from one of the three advancing teams. Biwott earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors as he finished in fifth place overall (out of 160 runners) with a time of 33:07.1.
  
Abraham Asis ran in 61st place with a time of 36:12.1 while teammate Jeremy Webb was 62nd with a time of 36:14.3. Raul Ramirez (97th, 37:22.5), Harrison Orr (137th, 39:17.4) and Feybian Matthews (153rd, 41:38.8) rounded out the YHC competitors.