- LOUIS, Mo.—Senior Noah Lutz (Evansville, Indiana) earned his first career victory for the No. 8 University of Southern Indiana men’s cross country team at the Gabby Reuveni Early Bird, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.
The Screaming Eagles took the top spot in the seven-team field on non-NCAA Division I schools with a perfect score of 15. The total was 30 points better than host and runner-up WashU. USI would have defeated the only NCAA Division I school—Southeast Missouri State University—by 38 points had the meet been scored together.
Lutz was able to secure the top spot with a finish of 19 minutes, 00.90 seconds, beating the field by nearly 10 seconds.
Junior James Cecil (Owensboro, Kentucky) and freshman Nathan Hall (Springfield, Missouri) also finished in the top-five with fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively. Both runners finished with a time of 19:10.20
Junior Cain Parker (Petersburg, Indiana) as well as freshmen Javan Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee) and Austin Nolan (Evansville, Indiana) helped secure the Eagles’ win with sixth, eighth, and 10-place finishes.
After a two-week hiatus, USI participates in the Spartan Invite September 16 in East Lansing, Michigan.
