EVANSVILLE, Ind. - At its home event, the University of Evansville men's and women's cross country teams each closed the regular season with top five finishes at the UE Invitational at Angel Mounds State Historic Site in Evansville.

"Pretty certain we had some PRs in there (in the women's 5k) and we gave it all we had on this day," said Aces' men's and women's cross country head coach Don Walters. "Lipscomb is good. They'll be at the national championships. We went after them. We weren't scared of them. We went after them and sometimes you pay the price when you do that, but I thought we had a good race overall."

"We did what we had to do there (in the men's 8k). We had a lot of guys that had PRs, Stanley (Chepchieng) had a PR," said Walters. "When you come out here day in and day out and you go to meet and you keep setting PRs, that's all I can ask."

The Purple Aces' women's team picked-up a second-place finish at the invitational, while the men's team finished in fourth among the nine-team field.

Leading the way for Evansville's women was sophomore Anna Lowry who capped off a tremendous regular season with a fourth-place finish in a time of 18:08.2. Lowry ran with the front pack for much of the 5-kilometer race, finishing just 21 seconds behind the individual champion. 

Finishing second among the Aces was senior Sienna Crews, who earned a top 15 finish, crossing the line in 11th place with a time of 19:00.8. Notching a top 20 finish, junior Hannah Welsh finished in 17th in a time of 19:25.7, while freshman Haylee Harmeyer register another impressive run for Evansville as she finished in 20th, setting a new PR with a time of 19:31.9.

Just two spots behind Harmeyer was senior Ashton Bosler grabbing a 22nd-place finish, crossing the line in 19:47.3. In 32nd place, freshman Katelyn Singh finished in a time of 20:11.9, the second-best time of the season for Singh.

Earning top 50 finishes for Evansville were sophomores Izzy Dawson (20:43.8) and Lauren Meyer (20:52.5), freshmen Savanna Mills (21:13.1) and Emma Boebinger (21:24.7), and senior Hayley Elliott (21:36.2) all finished within one minute of one-another.

Pulling in a 53rd-place finish was freshman Ah'tahja Hooper who finished the 5k course in 23:04.6. Both setting PRs, freshmen Sam Weldon (24:50.9) and Zaya Lumumba (28:24.1) crossed the finish line in 65th and 72nd, respectively.
 

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Results

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On the men's side, four Aces finished in the top 30, led by junior Stanley Chepchieng (26:55.2), a nearly 16-second improvement over Chepchieng's PR of 27:11 set at last weekend's Fast Cats Classic. Also earning top 30 finishes were sophomores Dawson Hood (27:04.7) and Kalen Ochs (27:05.4), and senior Jordan Carpenter (27:15.4) with all three grabbing PRs in the 8k race.

Junior Ricky Hendrix earned a 36th-place finish at the UE Invitational, crossing the line in a time of  27:42.2, while sophomore Tyler Frields-Reifsteck finished in 39th with a time of 27:52.2. Improving upon his PR by over one minute, freshman Carson Kline grabbed a top 50 finish with a time of 28:20.3, crossing the line in 46th place.

Grouped together, sophomore Phil Dzienciol (28:49.4), freshman Jack Rauch (28:52.4), and sophomore Timmy Miller (28:56.2) finished 52nd, 53rd, and 54th, respectively, with all three earning PRs. A pair of freshmen in Kaleb Slagle and Alton Hoops who finished in 57th and 60th in times of 29:15.5 and 29:35.0, both PRs for Slagle ad Hoops. In 67th and 70th were freshman Kyle Thieme and junior Tucker Dawson who finished the men's 8-kilometer race with times of 30:47.2 and 31:57.4, respectively.

Lipscomb captured both the men's and women's overall team championship, while Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on the women's side and Thomas More picked up NCAA Non-Division One team championships.

Evansville has next weekend off from competition before taking part in the 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Championships in Peoria, Ill on October 27.

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