The Monmouth College Cross Country teams ran against teams from Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA and JUCO on Friday at the Bradley Pink Classic in Peoria. Every competitor had a season-best time as the men finished 16th overall, second among Division III squads while the women did not record a team score.

Andrew Peterson (Galesburg, Illinois) scored 74 points with a 99th place finish in 26:42.3, a new PR and nearly a minute faster than his time from the Augustana meet two weeks ago. Fernando Avila Rubio (Alpha, Illinois) ran a season best of 26:46.5 and finished 109th. 

Xander Stoub (Palos Heights, Illinois) also turned in a season-best time at 26:52.8 as he finished 118th. Dawid Opiola (Arlington Heights, Illinois) was 140th with a new PR of 27:17.5 and Jack Wayne (Yorkville, Illinois) also set a new PR at 27:45.7 to finish 167th. 

Wyatt Hall (Oneida, Illinois) took more than a minute off his best time with a new PR of 28:02.9 as he finished 175th. Riley Morgan (Jewett, Illinois) was 185th in a season-best 28:27.4 and Braden Rees (Galesburg, Illinois) finished 188th in a season-best 28:38.6.

In the women's race freshman Morgan Sheley (Lincoln, Illinois) finished in 106th place with a PR of 24:25.9 Senior Melissa Bivolarov (Arlington Heights, Illinois) finished 125th in a season-best 25:22.7

MONMOUTH MOMENTS: Four men - Peterson, Opiola, Wayne and Hall set new PRs while Stoub, Avila Rubio, Morgan and Rees all had season-best times in the 8K…Sheley ran 55 seconds better than the PR she set at the Augustana meet two weekends ago…Bivolarov was 1:09 better than her previous season-best time from the Les Duke Invite at Grinnell last month…Both teams have next week off before competing in the Midwest Conference Championships…The MWC Championships will be hosted by Beloit College at the Beloit Country Club on Oct. 31…The women's race begins at 11 a.m. with the men's race at Noon.