Rio Grande Sports Information
    RIO GRANDE, Ohio - Blake Freed ran to a runner-up finish and led the University of Rio Grande men to a runner-up finish as a team at the 2015 Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship, Saturday afternoon, at the Rio Grande Cross Country Course.
    Freed, a junior from Uhrichsville, Ohio, crossed the finish line just ahead of fellow junior Dallas Guy (Buffalo, OH), although both officially finished the 8K course in 26:53.7.
    Freed, Guy and freshman Mike Norris (Dayton, OH) - who finished fifth in a time of 27:14 - qualfied for the NAIA National Championship on Nov. 21 in Charlotte, N.C. as being among the top four individuals who weren't members of the winning team.
    Senior Matt Engstrom (Dover, OH) narrowly missed making it a quartet of national qualifiers for the RedStorm by finishing seventh in a time of 27:33.
    Rio Grande finished with 53 points as a team, 13 behind champion and national qualifier Point Park (40 pts.). Asbury University was a distant third place finisher with 108 points.