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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – On Saturday morning, the University of Evansville cross country teams head east to the Greater Louisville Classic. The Purple Aces will run in the blue race, which features an 8K men’s race at 10:45 a.m. ET with the women’s 5K race following at 11:30 a.m. ET. Tom Sawyer State Park will host the race.
Sienna Crews and Hannah Welsh took the top two positions last weekend as the Purple Aces ran in the Austin Peay Invitational. The women came home in third place out of nine participating teams while the men took fourth out of ten.
Crews, who also won the event last year, blistered her previous course record in the 5K race. She ran a 19:05 as a freshman, but improved that to an 18:10 this year, which is also her PR. It bested her 18:33.87 in last year’s MVC Championship. She finished nine seconds ahead of teammate Hannah Welsh, who also set a PR with an 18:19.
Ashton Bosler was third on the team. She made it 3-for-3 with runners setting PR’s as she recorded a time of 19:45 to finish in tenth place. Her old PR came last year at the MVC Championship and was a 20:09.09. Next up was Kylie Hasenour. She fell just seven seconds she of her top time at UE, running a 20:34 to take 27th.
For the men, Ricky Hendrix was the top finisher once again as the team ran 4 miles. He topped Stanley Chepchieng and Tucker Dawson. Hendrix came in 6th place, posting a time of 22:20. His efforts came in a race that featured 89 participants.
Chipeching earned a top-20 finish, taking 20th with a time of 23:06. Frondorf had a solid run. His 23:13 was good for 26th place overall.
Fourth for the guys was freshman Tucker Dawson. He circled the 4-mile course in 23:29 to take 34th. Twelve seconds behind him was Paul Schwartz, who placed 38th and ran a 23:41.
