INFO | SAC XC Championship results
 
Greeneville, Tenn.----Wingate University junior Samuel Gilson won the individual title, leading the No. 2 Bulldogs to their fifth straight South Atlantic Conference men's cross country championship at Kinser Park Saturday. Gilson's 8K time of 26:12.31 was 14 seconds faster than junior teammate David Holman's second-place time of 26:26.98.
 
Wingate had three of the top four runners to finish with 36 points. Anderson was a close second with 37 points. Ten Bulldogs started the race and seven student-athletes made the three All-SAC teams. Three made the first team, one made the second team and three made the third team.
 
Meet Information

Top five teams: No. 2 Wingate (36 points), No. 21 Anderson (37), No. 29 Catawba (67), Lincoln Memorial (125) and UVA Wise (163)
Individual finishers: 100 student-athletes representing 13 schools
Location: Kinser Park, Greeneville, Tennessee (Tusculum University, host)
 
Quotables
 
Wingate head coach Pol Domenech
 
"We are so proud of everyone who represented us out on the course today. It was the hardest course I have ever witnessed and the men tackled the course with courage. We certainly did not have the perfect race, but the course made things really unpredictable. I am so proud of the love and support this team has for each other. I'm really proud to lead this group and to bring another trophy back to Wingate."

Inside the 8K Race Results
 
- Sophomore Alexis Collomb finished fourth with his 8K time of 26:43.22
- Anderson junior Elliot Dotson prevented a WU podium sweep by taking third place
- Dotson posted a bronze-medal time of 26:39.27, four seconds faster than Collomb
- Both the Bulldogs and the AU Trojans had three runners each in the top seven
 
Notables
 
- Gilson, Holman and Collomb made the first team All-SAC
- Sophomore Thomas Bentley made the All-SAC second team
- Bentley finished 11th, thanks to his 8K time of 26:59.26
- Three Bulldogs made the All-SAC third team
- Sophomore Alejandro Berrio finished 18th with his 27:26.64 8K time
- Senior Oskar Enseling and junior Charlie Stephenson were next on the charts
- Enseling was 19th (27:28.89), while Stephenson was 20th (27:31.96)
- Enseling was Wingate's SAC Elite 23 nominee for men's cross country
- He holds a 3.843 cumulative GPA with his psychology major
- Two Wingate newcomers made the SAC All-Freshman team
- Charlie Kyberd and Julio Espinoza gave Wingate two of the five honorees
 
Up Next - NCAA Southeast Regional XC meet Nov. 8


The defending region champions will compete in the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Cross Country meet Saturday, November 8. The championships are hosted by Wingate University at the WU Cross Country Facility. The women's 6K race is slated for 10 a.m. The men's 10K race follows at 11:15 a.m.
 
The Bulldogs are the defending Southeast Region champions in both men's and women's cross country. The Wingate men won the '23 NCAA Division II national championship meet and finished second in the '24 event. The Bulldog women claimed eighth place at both the '23 and the '24 NCAA championship events.