Lincoln Blue Tigers Ready For MIAA Championship

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri -- The Lincoln cross country team heads to Emporia, Kan. on Saturday (Nov. 3) for the 2018 MIAA Championship. The 6K race, hosted by Emporia State University, will be held at Jones Park Cross Country Course and will begin at 11:00 a.m. CT.

This will be the second 6K race of the season for the Blue Tigers, with the first being the Central Missouri Mule Run (Oct. 20), the last race in which Lincoln competed. Melissa Tyme paced the Blue Tigers in the 6K race, their first such competition of the season, with a time of 25:14.05 while Danielle James was next at 25:27.72. Kamoy Fagan finished next for LU, timing in at 29:31.12, while Christine Moss (30:02.60) and Segale Brown (31:18.34) rounded out the Blue Tigers.

The Blue Tigers opened 2018 with a third-place finish at the Forest Park Cross Country Festival on Sept. 7. James was LU's top finisher, clocking in at 22:05.1 to place 10th out of all the scored runners. Tyme finished 11th in the scoring, as she came in just behind James with a time of 22:07.0.

Renea Ambersley had the Blue Tigers' next-quickest finish of 23:27.4, placing her 16th on the points list, and Shanice Clarke timed in at 24:14.7 for Lincoln's fourth-best result of the afternoon. Fagan(24:36.2), Rusheda Blake (25:57.1) and Moss (25:57.6) closed out the scoring for Lincoln while Brown (26:00.6) and Tajera Lawkin (26:50.6) also competed.

The Blue Tigers also raced in the Southern Stampede on Sept. 15, where Tyme led Lincoln by clocking in at 20:54.0. James (21:11.5), Moss (24:38.6) and Brown (24:42.5) also had notable finishes for LU.

Lincoln's other race of the season was the Gary Stoner Invitational, where the Blue Tigers again posted a third-place result. James took 10th overall with a time of 20:59.8, and Tyme clocked in at 21:40.6 while Clarke timed in at 24:44.5. Fagan (24:50.6), Brown (25:16.5) and Lawkin (26:15.8) also represented LU.

The Blue Tigers, who placed 10th at the Central Missouri Mule Run, has posted three top-10 team finishes in 2018.

Dan Carr, Assistant AD for Media Relations
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