LAWTON, Okla. – Southeastern gets its season started with a fifth-place finish at the Aggies Duels, garnering 121 points as a team with two top-20 individual finishes.
West Texas A&M won the event with a score of 15, followed by GAC-rival East Central in second, who secured 60 points as a team. Midwestern State checked in at third, while Cameron just edged out the Savage Storm in fourth with 110 points.
A pair of freshmen led the blue and gold at the event, as
Anahi Machuca and
Lauren Garza secured a 14
th-place and 19
th-place finish, respectively. Machuca crossed the line at 19:32.09 to complete her first collegiate meet, while Garza touched the line at 19:36.81. Filling out the top-25,
Genevi Martinez finished with a time of 19:59.18 to grab 25
th individually.
Next to cross the line for the Storm was
Devyn Doakes in 32
nd with a time of 20:23.67, and was followed closely by
Mireyda Samper at 20:29.11 to place 33
rd. SE saw another back-to-back finish moments later, when
Tatum Cross (35
th) and
Katlen Clem (36) made it to the line at 20:42.21 and 20:46.09, respectively.
A quartet of runners for the Storm crossed the line in succession, led by
Ashlen Clem at 20:54.33.
Naomi Cotero followed on the heels of Clem with a time of 20:54.38 in 39
th, while
Anjelika Abraham crossed the line seconds later in 40
th at 20:56.63. Next to finish was
Calibre Keene in 41
st place with a time of 21:03.93.
Cassandra Vargas turned in her first time of the season at 21:14.14 to place 45
th individually, and later
Aereonna Cardenas (48
th) finished at 21:16.47.
Sarah Coblentz followed at the 21:28.35 mark, and
Andrea Lopez and
McKenna Wood would finish at 22:27.86 and 22:46.42, respectively, to round out the event
Southeastern continues its 2025 season with a trip to the Lone Star on Friday, Sept. 12, when they run in the IWU Invitational in San Antonio, Texas.
