BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Cumberlands (Ky.) scored a perfect score of 15 to win the 2026 Mid-South Conference Men’s Cross Country Championship today at Phil Moore Park.

The Patriots won their fourth-straight championship and a conference-best 16th title.

Cumberlands produced the top nine finishers over the 8,000-meter race.

Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) finished second with 89 points, and Cumberland (Tenn.) ended in third with 92 points. Georgetown (Ky.) finished fourth with 111 team points, followed by Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) with 132 points, Campbellsville (Ky.) with 142 points, and Bethel (Tenn.) with 167 points

With the win, Cumberlands earns the Mid-South Conference's automatic bid into the NAIA National Championships scheduled for November 20 in Vancouver, Washington.

Cumberlands' Collin De Julio captured the individual title and MSC Runner of the Year with a time of 25 minutes and 5.4 seconds. With his finish, De Julio also earns first-team all-conference honors

Cumberlands' Noah Loser finished runner-up with a time 25:17.2.

The top seven finishers earn first-team all-conference honors, with the next seven earning second-team honors.

Joining De Julio and Loser on the men's all-conference first team are Caleb Hershey, Kyle Crady, Casey Desilvey, Sean Crady, and Giulio Romano.

The All MSC Second Team consists of Cumberlands' Killian Le Bourhis, Merwan Meleard, Caden Cull, and Christopher Wells, and Bethel's Hudson Wallace, Freed-Hardeman's Barrett Poe, and Lindsey Wilson's Jag Willers.

Meleard earned MSC Freshman Runner of the Year for being the top freshman finisher.

In addition to the Cumberlands team, Wallace, Poe, and Willers all earn bids to the national championships as the first three runners not on the winning team and in the top 15.

Following the race, Cumberlands' Bradley Sowder was selected by his peers as the Mid-South Conference Men's Cross Country Head Coach of the Year. The honor is his third men's cross country coach of the year award.

Cumberlands' James Overholser was voted by the head coaches as the MSC Men's Cross Country Assistant Coach of the Year. The honor is his second.

First Team:

Name	School
Kyle Crady	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Sean Crady	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Collin De Julio	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Casey Desilvey	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Caleb Hershey	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Noah Loser	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Giulio Romano	Cumberlands (Ky.)

 

Second Team:

Name	School
Barrett Poe	Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.)
Merwan Meleard	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Christopher Wells	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Caden Cull	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Jag Willers	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Killian Le Bourhis	Cumberlands (Ky.)
Hudson Wallace	Bethel (Tenn.)