COLUMBIA, Mo.—University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country raced to a 21st-place finish out of 37 teams at the University of Missouri’s Gans Creek Classic Friday morning.
Senior Brady Terry finished 58th out of 320 competitors to lead the Screaming Eagles, who finished with 618 points to put them ahead of the three other Ohio Valley Conference teams that competed in the event. Terry finished the eight-kilometer race in 24 minutes, 13.6 seconds.
The Eagles sophomore class aided USI in the even with Alex Nolan, Jackson Collman, Isaac Stanford and Cole Hess rounded out its top-five finishers. Nolan and Collman were 112th and 128th, respectively, while Stanford and Hess posted respective finishes of 178th and 195th.
Freshman Layden Wagoner (201st) and sophomore Landen Swiney (239th) rounded out USI’s top-seven.
USI’s men also carded a 17th-place finish out of 26 teams in the open race. Freshman Griffen Wheeler was 126th out of nearly 400 runners as he crossed the finish line in 26:02.6 to lead USI.
The Eagles return to action October 5 when they send a small squad to compete at the “Live in Lou” Classic at Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky. USI co-hosts the Angel Mounds Invitational October 18 in Evansville, Indiana, before wrapping up its third year of Division I with the OVC Championships November 1 in Union City, Tennessee.
