EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The Bellarmine Women's and Men's Cross Country teams opened with second and third place finishes in their season-opening meet at the USI Stegemoller Classic in Evansville, Ind.

Southern Indiana won the women's competition with a team time of 1:12:49.  Bellarmine's top finisher was sophomore Carissa Martin, who finished sixth with a time of 15:11.  Rend Lake and St. Mary-Of-The-Woods also competed.

Mary Ballinger of Southern Indiana won the individual crown with a time of 13:51.  Also finishing in the top ten for Bellarmine was junior Meghan Shagena with a time of 15:16.

Rend Lake won the men's meet as three of their five runners finished in the top five of the field for a final team time of 1:32:59.  Bellarmine earned third place with a team time of 1:36:03.  Sophomore Jordan Parayil was their top finisher with a time of 18:49.  The individual winner of the meet for the men was Stephen Sambu from Rend Lake with a time of 17:54.

The Cross Country team will run again Saturday, Sept. Sept. 12 in the Queen City Invitational in Cincinnati at 9 a.m.

  2.    60  Bellarmine                  (  15:30.6  1:17:32.8)
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  1      8  Carissa Martin          F   15:11.5
  2     10  Meghan Shagena     F   15:16.1
  3     13  Kelsey Lovekin        F   15:31.1
  4     14  Bri Foster                F   15:46.6
  5     15  Cristin Samuels       F   15:47.5
  6   ( 16) Kristen Geiger         F   15:48.3
  7   ( 19) Victoria Meiers        F   15:54.3

Complete Results