EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Southern Indiana Women's Cross Country landed six in the top nine as the Screaming Eagles cruised to a season-opening victory at the Stegemoller Twilight Friday night at the USI Cross Country Course.
Sophomore
Hadessah Austin and junior
Ellie Hall finished first and second, respectively, as USI finished with 24 points in a four-team meet that included the University of Evansville, Vincennes University and Oakland City University.
Austin finished the four-kilometer race in 13 minutes, 47.1 seconds to edge Hall, who was just a 10th of a second behind with a time of 13:47.2.
The Screaming Eagles were bolstered by the efforts of sophomores
Addison Applegate and
Abrielle Richard as well as freshman
Lilyanna Blais and junior
Sara Livingston.
Applegate was sixth with a time of 14:19.1, while Blais finished seventh in her USI debut with a time of 14:29.1. Richard and Livingston finished eighth and ninth, respectively, while sophomore
Cordelia Hoover rounded out USI's scorers with an 11th-place finish in her debut with the Screaming Eagles.
USI returns to action September 12th when it competes at the Southern Showcase in Huntsville, Alabama.
