VANCOUVER, Wash. - The 2011 NAIA Men's Cross Country National Championships were held on Saturday afternoon at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver, Wash., and the Embry-Riddle Eagles finished 28th out of the 32 total teams in the event. Junior Evans Kirwa earned his second All-American honor with his sixth-place finish, Kirwa was also an NAIA All-American in 2009.

The Eagles, who earned an automatic bid to the National Championships thanks to their seventh straight Sun Conference title on Nov. 5, got Kirwa's second-fastest time this season and fourth-fastest time in ERAU history to pace the squad. Kirwa ran the 8K event in 24:16, edging out Greg Montgomery of College of Idaho for sixth overall.

Senior Alex Frazier, running in his final cross country event as a member of the Blue and Gold, ran a time of 26:25, his third-fastest of the season, and good for 121st overall.

Freshman Jacob Dordick, the Eagle most responsible for sending ERAU to the National Championships because of his personal-best time at the conference meet, shattered his two-week old time with a 26:48 mark at the NAIA meet. Dordick's time put him 151st of the 312 total runners at the event.

Rounding out the Eagles scorers were junior Josh Guerrero (27:23) and freshman Alex Hernandez (27:32), while Zach Kraus (27:49) and Patrick Clare (28:12) also ran for Head Coach Mike Rosolino.

The Eagles totalled 652 points to place 28th, Oklahoma Christian put five runners in the top 50 and tallied 93 points to claim the 2011 title. California State San Marcos (188), Southern Oregon (206), Lewis-Clark State (228) and Wayland Baptist (254) rounded out the top five teams.

Kirwa becomes ERAU's first two-time All-American in cross country, as well as earning the highest individual finish at the NAIA National Championships. He ends the 2011 season with six individual meet titles (eight total races), the Sun Conference Runner of the Year Award, first team All-Sun Conference honors and All-America accolades.