ORLANDO, Fla. - Evans Kirwa followed up his third individual race title of the 2011 season last Saturday with his fourth title of the fall on Friday evening at the UCF Black and Gold Challenge in Orlando. Kirwa was much too fast for the rest of the field, out-pacing the second-place finisher by almost a minute en route to the meet crown, while leading ERAU to a fourth-place showing.

Kirwa, an Eldoret, Kenya native, ran the 8K race in 24:15.10, the third fastest time in Embry-Riddle history. Nearly eclipsing his record-setting 24:06.71 mark at last year's Southeast Classic. Kirwa has earned two NAIA National Runner of the Week honors thus far in 2011, and on Friday, ran his season-best time at the UKNIGHT in Pink event, meant to raise awareness for Breast Cancer research. All of the approximately 300 runners wore pink shoelaces.

Coming in second for the Blue and Gold was senior Alex Frazier (26:16.21), also posting a season-best 8K mark for Head Coach Mike Rosolino.

Zachary Kraus (27:01.18) was third for ERAU, while Patrick Clare (28:16.81) and fresman Dylan Roberts (28:26.25) wrapped up the Eagles' top five.

Newcomers Jason Riggs (28.46.40) and Paul Meesala (28:46.74) finished 43rd and 44th respectively and Jonathan Brasch (29:18.36) and Dalton L'Heureux (29:40.95) were the final Eagle finishers.

Embry-Riddle finished fourth, better than four NCAA I teams, tallying 85 points in the race.

"Evans (Kirwa) was unbelievable tonight," Rosolino commented. "He almost ran a personal-best/school record time for us. We were solid at this meet, but not where we want to be yet. We have one more race to go before the postseason, and I'm confident we can get healthy and improve come Nov. 5."

The Sun Conference Championships are set for Nov. 5 in Ave Maria, Fla., but the Eagles will have one final regular season race to prepare when they travel to Rome, Ga. and compete in the Southeast Classic hosted by Berry University.