Cross Country: Limoh, Cajuns Take Top Honors At LSU Cross Country

BATON ROUGE – Stanley Limoh recorded a time of 14 minutes, 50.55 seconds to claim his second straight individual title and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns men’s cross country team placed four athletes in the top 10 to run away with the team title at the LSU Cross Country Invitational on Saturday at Highland Road Park.

In the women’s 5K race, Courtney Musgrove posted a time of 18:31.23 to finish eighth overall and lead the Ragin’ Cajuns to a fourth-place finish in the eight-team meet.

Louisiana, ranked No. 15 in the USTFCCCA South Central Region Poll, scored 32 points to claim its first team title of the season with LSU (45), Tulane (51), SLU (119) and New Orleans (126).

Limoh, who captured the individual title last week at the Rice Invitational, finished just over a second ahead of Tulane’s Emmanuel Rotich in claiming his second title of the season. Beau Robinson finished fourth overall for Louisiana as he crossed the finish line of the 5K race in 15:11.11 with Christian Bergeron (15:29.37) finishing seventh overall, Matt Rice (15:45.36) eighth and Bryce Robinson 12th (16:01.87).

“I was very proud of how our teams competed today,” head coach Lon Badeaux said. “We were focusing this week on closing the gaps between our top two runners from our 3-4-5 runners, and they were able to do that today. Their times were very impressive on a hard and very wet course.

“Our women’s team continues to put in a great effort, despite being short-handed. I was proud of the way they competed today. They continue to be solid.”

Dylan Heck posted a 13th-place finish (16:01.91) for the Ragin’ Cajuns with Marvin Hebenbrock finishing 19th (16:23.41), Cole Stafford 20th (16:23.82), Jacob Chicola 23rd (16:30.32), Scott Brewster 28th (17:00.76), Regan Lemaire 35th (17:14.14) and John-Paul Bergeron 42nd (17:50.59).

Musgrove earned her first top-10 performance of the season for the Ragin’ Cajuns, who scored 101 points to finish behind Southern Miss (33), Tulane (50) and LSU (55) in the standings. Lindsay LaGarde finished 18th overall for Louisiana (19:23.27) with Alexa Breaux finishing 22nd (19:37.73), Courtney Broussard 25th (20:08.17), Kaylei Esfeller 28th (20:49.30) and Hailey Hesterman 31st (21:49.93).

Louisiana will return to action on Oct. 1 when it travels to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the prestigious Chili Pepper Festival, hosted by nationally-ranked Arkansas.

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