University of Southern Indiana sophomore Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) and senior Jessica Reeves (Midland, Michigan) recorded top-20 finishes as the No. 11 Screaming Eagles punched their ticket to the national meet with a fifth-place finish out of 30 teams at the NCAA Division II Midwest Region Championships Saturday morning at Angel Mounds.
Roberts finished fifth in the 224-competitor field with a six-kilometer time of 20 minutes, 37.00 seconds, while Reeves finished 16th with a time of 21:31.38.
Both Roberts and Reeves were named to the All-Region team with their efforts.
USI had three of top 30 finishers and four of the top 50 as it finished with 161 points, 11 behind No. 8 Northern Michigan University and No. 14 Lewis University.
Senior Jamie Adkins (Owensboro, Kentucky) finished 30th with a time of 21:59.29; while sophomore Jessica Lincoln (Palatine, Illinois) was 47th with a time of 22:36.57. Adkins finished less than 14 seconds shy of a top 25 finish and All-Region accolades.
Grand Valley State University, the No. 1 team in the nation, finished first with 45 points, while No. 3 Hillsdale College was second with 63 points. The No. 20 University of Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers were sixth with 204 points to round out the national qualifying teams.
Individually, Hillsdale senior Emily Oren finished first with a time of 20:19.47, while Grand Valley State freshman Gina Patterson was second with a time of 20:24.57.
Malone University sophomore Hannah Campbell, Bellarmine University senior Flannery Musk, and Trevecca Nazarene University sophomore Caroline Hampton claimed the individual qualifying spots with their respective finishes of ninth, 13th, and 15th.
The Eagles compete at the NCAA II National Championships November 21 in Joplin, Missouri.
