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| Silvey Britton |
JOPLIN, Mo. -- The UMR women's cross country team finished in 19th place -- roughly the middle of the pack -- at the highly competitive Southern Stampede Saturday at Missouri Southern State University.
The meet had 34 full teams, including a handful of NCAA Division I schools, in the field. On the course, UMR's top five runners had an average time of 20:03 over five kilometers.
Freshman Silvey Britton was UMR's top performer with an 81st place finish among the 286 runners in the race. Britton had a time of 19:39, seven seconds better than teammate Laura Ruf who came in 90th place. Kierra Handley was the third Lady Miner to cross the finish line in 110th place in 20:04, followed by Dana Narconis in 20:10 and Kylee Hyzer in a time of 20:38.
Harding won the team competition with a score of 56 as it had three of the top 11 scorers in the meet.
UMR's next competition is scheduled for Sept. 30 at the Loyola Lakefront Invitational in Chicago.
WOMEN'S RESULTS FROM MISSOURI SOUTHERN
TEAM SCORES: Harding 56, Missouri State 127, Southwest Baptist 156, Oral Roberts 174, Pittsburg State 216, Mid-America Nazarene 230, Misosuri Southern 239, Tulsa 294, Drury 314, Fort Hays State 325, Central Oklahoma 355, Park 369, Oklahoma Baptist 372, UMKC 391, Rhodes 463, Oklahoma Christian 493, Truman State 507, Missouri-Rolla 514, Johnson County CC 531, Graceland 550, Southwestern (Kan.) 558, Northwood 568, Texas A&M-Commerce 605, Southwestern Oklahoma State 621, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 657, East Central 664, Evangel 739, Southern Nazarene 768, Lincoln 788, Longview 879, William Jewell 895, Allen County CC 960, Southeastern Oklahoma State 969.
UMR INDIVIDUALS (5K):
81. Silvey Britton, 19:39
90. Laura Ruf, 19:46
110. Kierra Handley, 20:04
114. Dana Narconis, 20:10
147. Kylee Hyzer, 20:38
154. Wendy Moore, 20:45
178. Beverly Ruedy, 21:14
187. Jamie Calvert, 21:30
Race Winner: Faithy Kamanglia (Oral Roberts), 16:53
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