Cross Country Sweeps ACU in Dual Meet

Friday, September 18

Abilene, TX

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Baylor

Abilene Christian Invitational

Cross Country Sweeps ACU in Dual Meet

9/18/2020 10:08:00 PM | Cross Country

Complete Women's Results Complete Men's Results

Celia Holmes and Connor Laktasic win individual championships.

WACO, Texas – Celia Holmes and Connor Laktasic both recorded new personal bests to take home their respective individual titles and lead the Baylor cross country teams past ACU in a dual meet Friday night at the ACU Cross Country Course in Abilene, Texas.

"It was a really good trip. We really got a lot of good out of that meet," Baylor associate head coach Jon Capron said. "It was exciting to see people race and learn where my team is fitness-wise."

Holmes set her personal best in the 5K with a time of 17:15.80 to win the women's title and was followed by Baylor teammates Sarah Antrich in third place (17:44.09), Lily Jacobs in fourth place (17:47.37), Kendall Mansukhani in sixth (18:04.11) and Anna Garner in seventh (18:15.41) as scoring runners for the Bears.

On the men's side, Laktasic took home the individual championship with a personal-best 8K time of 24:46.60 while Ryan Day finished as the runner-up at 25:04.04 - also a personal best. Jeremy Meadows placed fourth at 25:20.00, Ryan Hodge finished ninth at 26:03.67 and Philip Roxas took 10^th at 26:16.81 to round out the scoring for Baylor.

"It was exactly what I wanted out of Celia and Connor," Capron said. "I was really pleased with how they were able to go out there and dictate the race. To have them put themselves in the correct position to find themselves with a gap and be able to close it out is great to see early on in a season. Those opportunities don't always present themselves, so when you get the opportunity to do it and be able to close it out, it's pretty special."

The women finished with a team score of 21 to defeat ACU (39) by 18 points, and the men totaled 26 points to edge ACU (29) by three points.

"It's great to come away with a win on the team side because they worked very hard to make it happen from top to bottom," Capron said. "On the guys' side, if a couple of them don't make little moves late, those team points may not have worked out in our favor."

Next up for the Bears is the Cowboy Jamboree Oct. 3 in Stillwater, Okla. For updates on Baylor cross country throughout the season, follow @BaylorTrack on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.