JOPLIN, Mo. – Just two weeks removed from breaking its team 5k record, it didn't take long for the MACU Women's Cross Country team to break it again at the Missouri Southern Stampede ran at the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course on Saturday morning.
 
RESULTS

• Distance: 5000-Meters (5k)
• Number of Teams: 24
• Number of Finishers: 270
• Team Score / Place: 600 / 20^th
• Team Time: 1:48:33
• Scoring Placements
  • Dawsen Branum – 145^th (105) – 20:55.93
  • Kynna Brannan – 168^th (114) – 21:18.40
  • Katelyn Newhouse – 195^th (124) – 21:54.42
  • Ella Miller – 201^st (128) – 22:07.38
  • Kaylee Campbell – 205^th (129) – 22:17.83

RACE SUMMARY

• After opening the season at the Rogers State Distance After Dark a few weeks ago, breaking the team 5k time with a 1:51:28, the Evangels bettered their time by nearly three minutes as Mid-America Christian posted a team time of 1:48:33 at Saturday morning's race on the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course.
• Freshman Dawsen Branum paced the Evangels with the squad's only sub 21-minute time, crossing the finish line in 20:55.93, making it the eighth-fastest time in MACU's 5k record book.
• Freshman Kynna Brannan notched her career-best 5k time in the race with a time of 21:18.40, bettering her previous best by 34 seconds set at the RSU Distance After Dark.
• Competing in her first collegiate cross country race, senior Katelyn Newhouse was MACU's third-best finisher with a time of 21:54.42, making it the eighth-best individual time in MACU's record book.
• Ella Miller scored MACU's fourth-best time with a 22:07.38 while Kaylee Campbell bettered her mark set at the RSU Distance After Dark by nearly a full minute with a 22:17.83, making it a personal best for Campbell at MACU.
• Marilyn Hernandez was the sixth to finish for MACU with a time of 25:08.29 while Kaia Henry posted a 28:04.76.

UP NEXT

• Mid-America Christian will return to action in three weeks for the Golden Eagle Invitational hosted by John Brown at Pollard's Field in Siloam Springs, Ark. on Oct. 10. Race times are yet to be determined.