LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Juniors McKenna Cavanaugh (New Albany, Indiana) and Lauren Greiwe (West Harrison, Indiana) each posted top-80 finishes to lead University of Southern Indiana Women's Cross Country to a 25th-place finish out of 41 teams in the gold race of the Live in Lou Cross Country Classic Saturday morning at E.P. Tom Sawyer Park.

Cavanaugh finished 72nd with a five-kilometer time of 17 minutes, 53.2 seconds, while Greiwe was 79th with a time of 17:57.1.

The Screaming Eagles finished with a score of 692 and were the top Ohio Valley Conference team in the field as they edged out Eastern Illinois University, which was 26th with 708 points. Southeast Missouri State University was 35th with 902 points, while the remainder of the OVC teams competing participated in the blue race.

Junior Aubrey Swart (Noblesville, Illinois) was 154th, while sophomore Audrey Comastri (Indianapolis, Indiana) and sophomore Allison Morphew (Evansville, Indiana) were 202nd and 233rd, respectively, to round out USI's top-five finishers. Senior Emma Brown (Evansville, Indiana) and freshman Micah Peals (Terre Haute, Indiana) rounded out the Eagles top-seven with respective placements of 252nd and 287th.

Freshman Parker Provost (Westfield, Indiana) led USI's second team, which was 47th in the blue race, with a 285th-place finish.

USI returns to action October 14 when it competes at the Bradley Pink Classic in Peoria, Illinois. The OVC Championships are October 29 in Cookeville, Tennessee.