COLFAX, Wis. – The Macalester College women's cross country team took ninth overall and seventh among Division III schools at the Blugold Invitational, hosted by UW-Eau Claire Friday morning. All 10 teams ranked in the top 10 of the North Region competed on the same course as next month's North Region Meet. The Scots, ranked sixth in this week's North Region rankings, finished behind the top four teams and No. 7 UW-Stevens Point, and ahead of No. 5 UW-Whitewater and the teams ranked eighth through 10th.

Macalester was in 15th place at the halfway point before finishing strong to move up six places to ninth.

Junior Ingrid Norquist (Minneapolis, Minn./Anoka) turned in a solid performance, taking eighth out of 337 finishers with a time of 22:32.3 over the 6000-meter course. Sophomore Kate Fox (Seattle, Wash./Roosevelt) also ran well, taking 35th in 23:27.4, followed by junior Ivy Coldren (Frederick, Md./Urbana) in 51st (23:43.2). Junior Samantha Ellis (Intervale, N.H./Gould Academy) was next in 66th (23:57.3) with junior Norah Juzenas (Silver Spring, Md./Sandy Spring Friends School) taking 183rd to close out the Scots' top five.

Next up for Macalester is the Augustana Interregional Invitational on Oct. 18 in Rock island, Ill.


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