Four Top 10 finishes pushed Campbellsville University to its best team finish of the season so far, as the Lady Tigers won the Berea College Cross Country Invitational Saturday. The Tiger men place third.

Campbellsville posted a team total of 1:45:24 to beat out Mid-South Conference foes Lindsey Wilson and Georgetown, which finished second and third, respectively.



Freshman Maggie Mattingly finished in the To 5 for the third consecutive meet, placing fourth with a time of 19:49 to lead CU. The Lady Tigers' returning NAIA National Championship qualifiers Amy Etherington and Tawny Vilchis were a second apart in fifth (20:43) and sixth (20:44), respectively: 20:43. Summer Rines also had a Top 10 finish, placing ninth with a time of 21:33. The fifth time that counted for CU belonged to Emily Wesley, who finished 23rd with a time of 22:34, Natasha Janes was 10 seconds behind her in 26th place.

Other CU times and finishes were Daisy Perez, 29th, 22:57; Kasey Vitkus, 40th, 23:36; Erin Collins, 52nd, 24:29.

On the men's side, Qualaun Reed was fourth to lead CU with a time of 27:56. Andrew Simmons and Armando Pina were 12th and 13th, respectively with times of 28:48
and 28:53. Rounding out the times for CU were Dashan Craft, 25th, 29:44; Bradley Harris, 29th, 30:17; Christian Black, 50th, 31:49; David McKellar, 66th, 35:06; Matt Oliver, 75th, 38:36.

"I think both the men's and women's teams performed nicely, and we are really starting to bring everything together. We have three more races over the next seven weeks until the conference meet," CU head coach Hilary Cebulko said. "For the guys, we really need to work on closing the gap between the third and fourth runners and the fourth and fifth runners,. For the girls, we need to work on closing the gap between the fourth and fifth runner. I think we really brought things together this week and both teams have shown improvement just over the course of a couple weeks. It's still the beginning, so we still have some work to do, but it has given us a great start and definitely somewhere to work from here on out.

Campbellsville will take the next week off before competing in the Louisville Classic on Saturday, Oct. 2.



Berea College Invitational Unofficial Results:

Women:
1- Campbellsville (41 points), total time of 1:45:24, top 5 scoring places: 3-4-5-8-21
2- Lindsey Wilson (45), total time of 1:50:59, top 5 : 1-6-10-11-17
3- Georgetown (96), total time of 1:50:59, top 5: 2-15-24-25-30
4- Translvania (109), total time of 1:54:33, top 5: 7-12-14-36-40
5- Berea (114), total time of 1:53:46, top 5: 9-16-22-32-35
6- Asbury (127), total time of 1:18:57, top 5: 18-19-27-29-34
7- Kentucky State (144), total time of 1:57:57, top 5: 13-20-28-38-45
8- UVA-Wise (169), total time of 1:59:34, top 5: 23-31-33-39-43
9- Union (221), total time of 2:15:09, top 5: 26-44-46-50-55
10- Midway (232), total time of 2:14:19, top 5: 37-41-48-52-54
11- ALice Lloyd (265), total time of 3:01:11, top 5: 42-49-57-58-59
No Team Score: Pikeville (4 runners)


Men:
1-Berea (54); 2:22:30; 2-5-7-19-21
2-Georgetown (55); 2:23:19; 3-9-10-16-17
3-Campbellsvile (74); 2:25:28; 4-11-12-23-24
4-Lindsey WIlson (117); 2:29:03; 1-22-25-33-36
5-ASbury (128); 2:31:50; 6-26-27-32-37
6-Kentucky State (133); 2:32:30; 8-18-34-35-38
7- UVA-Wise (137); 2:33:39; 15-20-30-32-40
8- Union (140); 2:35:31; 13-14-31-39-43
9- Translvania (190); 2:50:25; 28-29-41-44-48
NTS (no team score): Pikeville (3 runners)
NTS: Alice Lloyd (4 runenrs)