Cross Country Teams Compete in Iowa on Saturday

MONMOUTH, ILL. The Monmouth College cross country teams had their first full distance races on Saturday at the Les Duke Invite, hosted by Grinnell College. The men ran 8k with an eighth-place finish as a team and the women ran 6k without a team score.

Eli Newton (Dallas City, Illinois) ran 29:00.99 to finish 69th and freshman Xander Stoub (Palos Heights, Illinois) finished 79th in 29:22.85. Neo Colter (Geneseo, Illinois) was 91st in 30:02.8 and Liam MacLellan (Chicago, Illinois) was 135th in 32:53.32. Braden Bernas (Aurora, Illinois) was145th in a time of 34:57.04. Alex Urbina (Round Lake Beach, Illinois) and Nate Newlin (Dekalb, Illinois) rounded out the Monmouth team with times of 37:30.73 and 42:26.71 respectively.

On the women's side, Samantha Costello (Morris, Illinois) finished 62nd in 28:09.76 with Melissa Bivolarov (Arlington Heights, Illinois) in 76th in a time of 29:15.55. The Scots didn't register a team score on the women's side. Kristen Rebman (Macomb, Illinois) finished 100th in 37:20.29.

The Scots will next run on Friday in the Bradley Intercollegiate in Peoria.