Ohio State Finishes Seventh at Big Ten Cross Country Championships – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/31/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
MADISON, Wis. – The Ohio State men’s cross country team finished in seventh-place Sunday at the 2010 Big Ten Cross Country Championships, hosted by the University of Wisconsin’s 8k Zimmer Championship Course.
With a team point total of 164, the Buckeyes finished behind champion Wisconsin – the sixth-ranked Badgers placed five runners in the Top 12 to capture their 12th-consecutive Big Ten title behind a score of 28. No. 7 Indiana was the runner-up with 75 points.
“The team and I are very disappointed in our performance today,” Ohio State head coach Robert Gary said after the race. “We were not at our best and it showed in the final team standings.”
Senior Chad Balyo led the Buckeyes for the third time this season, finishing 19th overall with an 8k PR of 24:11, followed by junior Jake Edwards, who took 22nd in a PR of 24:18. Sophomore Donny Roys turned in a 40th-place effort for the second-consecutive meet, crossing the finish line in 24:45, while Taylor Williams (41st) and Chris Fallon (42nd) turned in identical times of 24:46, a PR for Fallon.
Junior Adam Green (24:56) and sophomore Cory Leslie (25:09) were the non-scorers for the Buckeyes, finishing 49th and 57th, respectively.
Up Next
Ohio State will take a week off before heading to Oakland, Mich., for the 2010 NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships Nov. 13.
“We will see the character of this program over the next 13 days leading up to the regional meet,” Gary said. “If we want to run at NCAAs, we’ll need to put together a much better team performance.”
Ohio State Results
1 19 Chad Balyo – 24:11
2 22 Jake Edwards – 24:18
3 40 Donny Roys – 24:45
4 41 Taylor Williams – 24:46
5 42 Chris Fallon – 24:46
6 (49) Adam Green – 24:56
7 (57) Cory Leslie – 25:09
Also: 8 (68) Julian Meyer 25:24.0
9 (77) Dan White 25:51.5
Team Standings
1) Wisconsin – 28 pts.
2) Indiana – 75
3) Minnesota – 101
4) Penn State – 128
5) Michigan State – 141
6) Illinois – 150
7) Ohio State – 164
8) Michigan – 185
9) Iowa – 205
10) Purdue – 212
