Cinnaminson’s Austin Gabay, in his first race for Butler, placed 5th in the Fighting Illini B1G Preview Friday in Savoy, Ill.
Gabay ran 23:48 over 8,000 meters on the Orange and Blue Golf Course just south of Champaign. He was Butler’s first finisher.
Gabay graduated in the spring from Duke and is spending a graduate year at Butler in Indianapolis. That 23:48 is only four seconds off his 8K PR of 23:44 from the 2022 Paul Short Run on Lehigh’s Goodman campus.
Gabay finished only six seconds behind winner Christian de Vaal of Wisconsin and New Zealand.
At Duke, Gabay ran 3:40.73 for 1,500 meters and 7:58.94 for 3,000 on the track.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 