WILMINGTON, OHIO-- Trine placed 15th in the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional, held Saturday at Wilmington College.
Thunder runners earned 467 points for the best Regional finish for a Trine team on record since the 2007 team tied for sixth. Adam Schaaf (Greentown, Ind./Eastern) finished first among Thunder runners in 34th overall. The sophomore ran a career-best 8K time by 47 seconds to finish in 25:14. Schaaf's 8K time improved by over two and a half minutes over the course of the season. Wabash earned the Great Lakes Regional title with 46 points, paced by five runners in the top 14.
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Lewis Duke (Greentown, Ind./Eastern) ran a solid time of 25:32 to finish 56th in his first-ever Regional performance. That bested his previous-best time by a minute. He improved his 8K time by 2:15 over the course of the season.
Sean Brady (Monroe, Mich./Monroe) finished third among Trine runners in 26:21. That time gave the Thunder another career-best mark by over a minute. Aaron Mast (Ligonier, Ind./West Noble) bested his career-mark by over a minute as well with a 26:34 time.
Rounding out Trine's top five and point earners was Collin Elek (Osceola, Ind./Penn). Elek's time was another personal-best of 26:42.
The performance rounds out a solid season for the Thunder that saw the team earn their best MIAA finish since 2008. All of Trine's top-five performances in the Regional came from underclassmen, giving the Thunder a solid young core of runners for the future.