COLUMBIA, Mo.—Junior Ellie Hall and sophomore Hadessah Austin posted top-20 finishes to lead University of Southern Indiana Women's Cross Country to a 10th-place finish in the black race of the Gans Creek Classic Friday morning.
 
Hall finished 10th in the 245-competitor field with a six-kilometer time of 20 minutes, 58.5 seconds, while Austin was 16th with a time of 21:03.5.
 
Junior Zoe Seward returned to the Screaming Eagles' lineup to finish 118th as USI compiled 294 points in the 26-team field.
 
Freshman Lilyanna Blais and junior Sara Livingston completed the Screaming Eagles' top five scorers with respective placements of 132nd and 138th, while sophomore Addison Applegate and sophomore Charlee Gibson were 142nd and 173rd, respectively, to round out USI's top seven.
 
The Screaming Eagles also had four student-athletes competing in the open race. Sophomore Cordelia Hoover and freshman Mackenzi Thomas paced USI's quartet with respective finishes of 33rd and 55th out of more than 250-competitors.
 
USI returns to action October 17 when it co-hosts the Angel Mounds Invitational in Evansville, Indiana. It will be USI's final regular-season meet as the Ohio Valley Conference Championships are October 31 in Charleston, Illinois, and the NCAA Division I Great Lakes Region Championships are November 14 at Angel Mounds.