BREAKING NEWS: USI Men’s Cross Country Advances to National Championships

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Eighth-ranked University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country advanced to the NCAA II National Championships with a second place finish Saturday in the NCAA II Midwest Region Championships at the Elvin R. King Cross Country Course in Cedarville, Ohio.

The Screaming Eagles finished second out of 28 teams with 72 points, just 14 behind champion Grand Valley State University. Lewis University finished third with 107 points to also advance.

Senior Bastian Grau (Höchstadt, Germany) paced the Eagles with a seventh place finish, completing the 10k in 31 minutes, 36.6 seconds. Two seconds behind in eighth was senior Cain Parker (Petersburg, Indiana), who finished in 31:38.4.

Also finishing back-to-back were sophomore Austin Nolan (Evansville, Indiana) and junior Darin Lawrence(Indianapolis, Indiana) in 16th and 17th, respectively. Nolan finished in 31:52.4 and Lawrence in 31:54.0. Rounding out the scoring for USI was sophomore Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee), who came in 29th in 32:27.1.

Grau, Parker, Nolan and Lawrence all earned All-Midwest Region honors by finishing in the top 25.

The NCAA II National Championships are November 18 at Angel Mounds in Evansville, Indiana.