CARBONDALE, Ill.—Sophomore Cordelia Hoover raced to an eighth-place finish to lead University of Southern Indiana Women's Cross Country to a second-place finish at the SIU Oscar Moore Invitational Friday evening in Carbondale, Illinois.
 
Hoover finished the six-kilometer course in 23 minutes, 2.86 seconds as the Screaming Eagles finished with 59 points in the four-team field.
 
Freshmen Mackenzi Thomas and Zoe Roberts were 10th and 11th, respectively, to aid the Screaming Eagles' cause. Fellow classmates Isabella Fuentes and Adara Austin completed USI's top five with respective placements of 14th and 16th.
 
Sophomore Maggie Smith and junior Parker Provost rounded out the Screaming Eagles' scorers with finishes of 21st and 23rd.
 
USI returns to action next Friday (September 26) when it competes at the Gans Creek Classic in Columbia, Missouri.