Final Results
IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine placed ninth in the Asics/UCI Invitational under unsettled skies at the Anteater Recreation Center (ARC) Fields Saturday morning.
Cal Poly won the 16-team competition with 38 points, Azusa Pacific was second with 59 and Long Beach State third with 106. UCI totaled 214 points.
Senior Melissa Mead led the Anteaters with a 24th-place finish of 18:26.5 over 5,000-meters in the 192-runner field.
Lauren Jimison of Azusa Pacific won the race with a course-record time of 17:20.4.
UCI redshirt junior Chloe Fata placed 36th in 18:46.2, Kaycee Holcomb was 42nd in 18:54.6 and Maggie Newton-Neal 48th in 19:01.8.
Maggie McDuffee finished 79th in 19:27.4, Shelley Foerster was 91st in 19:39.8 and Mary Follo 92nd in 19:40.2 to complete UCI's top seven.
The Anteaters travel to Mammoth for a week of training before returning to competition Sept. 24 at the Stanford Invitational.
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