Monmouth Cross Country Races to Honor Roll Times at Twenty-Team Bradley Intercollegiate

Monmouth, IL (09/21/2019) — Monmouth's women posted program honor roll times to place eighth at Friday's Bradley Intercollegiate cross country meet while the Scots men also recorded an honor roll time for the course, finishing ninth in the field of 20 teams.

Running the three-mile course at Peoria's Detweiller Park, the Scots' women turned in four honor roll times for that course and distance. Caroline Young crossed in 18:52.1 - just seconds off the program record - to place 37th in the field of more than 200 runners. Arika Hofmann was 15 seconds behind, in 46h place, with a 19:07.3. Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez (19:32.3) and Mik Moore (19:47.0) rounded out the Scots' course HR times in 63rd and 70th positions.

Finishing Monmouth's scoring runners were Julia Steer (19:52.1), Caitlyn Allen (20:17.5) and Kara Fisher (20:58.6). Crossing the line just out of scoring times were Teagan McKenna (22:47.5), Natalia Sliwinska (23:35.6), Lexi Shields (24:01.4) and Carolina Cruz (27:28.6).

The men raced the 8K course where Griff Morrill placed 28th with a Monmouth honor roll time for the Detweiller layout of 27:01.0. Riley Dulin was just over 30 seconds off Morrill's time, clocking a 27:32.7 for a 45th-place finish. The rest of the Scots' scoring field was spread out with Shay Hafner's 29:02.0 leading the way, finishing 80th. Alex Urbina (29:33.3), Tanner Heiple (29:42.9), C.J. Bonifer (30:01.8) and Mike Bersell (31:03.08) completed Monmouth's top seven. Carlos Miranda and Gavin Conway were just 20 seconds off scoring runs, clocking a 31:21.8 and 31:23.9, respectively. Jonah Cecil (32:03.8) and A.J. Walker (33:23.3) rounded out the men's team.

The Scots take next weekend off before traveling to Wartburg for the Dan Huston Invitational.