LAKE CHARLES, La. – Four Southeastern Louisiana runners recorded career-best times as the Lady Lions placed fourth at the 12^th annual McNeese Cowboy Stampede at the Enos Derbonne Multisports Complex on Saturday.

    The Lady Lions placed a pair of runners in the top 20 to finish with 129 points. Rice won with 25 points and was followed by McNeese (36) and Northwestern State (129).

    The Southeastern men took sixth with 156 points. Host McNeese captured the team title with 15 points with UL Lafayette second with 79.

    Freshman Sophie Daigle ran a season-best 5K time of 18:55.4 to place 12^th, her highest finish as a Lady Lion. Fellow freshman Tara Stuntz recorded her third top-20 of the season, coming in 17^th in 19:11.8. Freshman Breanna Bernard set a season best of 19:38.8 in finishing 23^rd. Freshman Lydia Pevey also set a career best of 21:37.6 for a 46^th-place finish. Lindsey Hutcheson was 54^th in 22:50.5.

    Also competing for the Lady Lions were sophomore Lill-Ann Hochkeppler (54^th, 22:35.8) and freshman Lorraine Weiskopf (61^st, career-best 23:47.0).

    Sophomore Bryant White's was the first Lion to finish the men's 4-mile, coming in 33^rd in 22:03.9. Freshman Jonathan Respress was right behind in 34^th in 22:06.0. Freshman Reed Callegan placed 39^th in 22:29.7 while freshman Logan Thibodeaux was 54^th in 23:34.7. Tajh Lewis took 60^th in 24:30.4.                                
 
MEET NOTES
   The Lady Lions averaged 20:24. The Lions averaged 22:57.
 
   McNeese's Enrique Soto was the men's individual champion in 19:13.1.
 
   Rice's Khayla Patel edged McNeese's Katja Woelfl, 17:36.3-17:38.2, for the women's title.
 
QUOTES
Southeastern head coach Rocky Capello:
On the women's race…
   "They looked really, really good. Sophie ran her best race and I've been coaching her since the third grade. I've never seen her run that well and the same with Breanna. I've been coaching her since middle school. They both had huge PRs. Tara ran a great race. Lydia Pevey ran, by far, the best race of her life. They are coming around. It's a small team but we seem to be getting better and better every week and we still have a couple of weeks until conference. I was pretty excited about the way they ran."
On the men's performance…
   "They ran a good race and they competed well. We still have to work on appropriate pacing but I thought they competed well. They had great finishes. Jonathan Respress ran the race of his life and Bryant did well. I was happy with it. The goal was today was to see how our next-tier guys can compete when they were in kind of a stressful situation when we needed them."
 
On the break before the next meet on Oct. 13.
   "We don't race again for two weeks so we can focus on training and healing up a little bit. The Alabama race is going to be exciting. I've been looking forward to that one. It will be the toughest course we've run all year but I'm excited and I think the kids are excited about it. It will be fun."
 
UP NEXT
      Southeastern wraps up its regular season at the Alabama Crimson Classic on Friday, Oct. 13 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
 
McNeese Cowboy Stampede
Enos Derbonne Multisports Complex
Saturday
Men's Team Results
1. McNeese                                15
2. UL Lafayette                           79
3. Houston Baptist                       84
4. Grambling                               94
5. Northwestern State               105
6. Southeastern La.                156
7. Nicholls                                 204
8. Alcorn State                          210
 
Women's Team Results
1. Rice                                        25
2. McNeese                                36
3. Northwestern State               127
4. Southeastern La.                129
5. Houston Baptist                     136
6. Grambling                             167
7. Nicholls                                 189
8. Southern                               217
9. Alcorn State                          219
10. Texas Southern                   260