BOWLING GREEN, KY – For the second straight season the Tigers finished runner-ups at the Mid-South Conference Championships on Friday.
 
Dominic Malel and Lukas Smithson punched their individual tickets to the NAIA National Championships in two weeks. Malel led the Tigers with his 3^rd place finish of 24:38.6 while Smithson was 5^th running a 25:37.3. Both Smithson and Malel earned First Team All-Conference honors. 
 
Jean-Benoit Merte and Martin Batel finished in back-to-back positions in 10^th and 11^th in the race. Merte was 10^th for Campbellsville in 25:54.1, Batel was 11^th in 25:55.4. The duo earned Second Team All-Conference honors. Samuel Bennett found his way into the top 25 with a 23^rd place time of 26:36.6.
 
Brayden Kaelin came in as the sixth man for Campbellsville on Friday finishing in 26^th place and running 26:49.0. Aaron Smith was the final man in for the top seven. Smith was 32^nd in the meet with a time of 27:15.4. 
 
As a team, Campbellsville finished with 49 team points and a 1-5 spread of 1:58.0. The Tigers will now look for an at-large bid for the NAIA National Championship to qualify them as a team in two weeks. 

• Campbellsville has only placed outside of the top two in the Mid-South Conference Championships one time since 2015.
• This is Aaron Smith's first appearance in the top seven this season for the Tigers. 
• The score of 49 is the lowest team score at the Mid-South Conference Championships since 2017.