Results

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of Redlands Cross Country teams returned to action Saturday morning at the University of California, Riverside Invitational where the men's team took 20^th setting four new Top-20 records, while the women were also 20^th in races filled with higher division competition.

Men

In the men's 8K Stian Asper (St. Paul, MN) took 33^rd with a 24:27.3, resetting the second-fastest time in program history, which he set last season. 24 of the 32 runners in front of him were higher division student-athletes with only four Division III runners going faster.

The second highest finisher was David Huggins (Salem, OR) in 114^th. He ran a 25:21.2, the new 10^th-fastest time as five of the 10 fastest times have come since 2021.

Max Schaller (San Diego, CA) ran 129^th with a 25:31.3, the 15^th-fastest time in program history. Matthew Farnsworth (Palos Verdes Estates, CA) ran 25:42.9, the new 18^th-fastest time, placing 153^rd.

The other Bulldog inside the Top-200 was Carlos Arias (Redlands, CA) in 192^nd with a time of 26:23.6.

Women

On the women's side Kiera Beyer (Beaverton, OR) took 56^th as the highest finishing Bulldog. She ran the 5K race in 18:55.2.

Elaine Dugmore (Hawthorne, CA) completed her race in 20:15.2 finishing 158^th. Also, inside the Top-200 was Madison Schaefer (Portland, OR) in 194^th with a 21:02.8.

The Bulldogs have a pair of meets next Saturday, October 4 with some runners heading to the Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) Invitational and others going to Oregon for the Willamette University Invitational.