Lars Juhl, Mark Reed, Christian Goy and Peter Madsen claimed the top four spots in the Illinois Invitational as the Illinois State mens cross country team upset regionally ranked Illinois.
The Illini, ranked fourth in the region, took second placed, Bradley third and Eastern Illinois finished fourth.
Goy, returning from an ankle injury, Juhl, Reed and Madsen all crossed the finished line near 25 minutes even, with only 0.75 seconds separating first and fourth place.
Junior Robert Breit trait the leaders of the pack by 20 seconds to finish in eighth while Kevin Bailey finished tenth in his first meet of the season.
We had just an incredible meet, head coach Jeff Pigg said. The guys worked together. There was a real step up in maturity and team development today. It was awesome that six of our guys finished in the top ten, and very exciting to come here running well and beat Illinois.
Meanwhile, the womens team showed improvement over last weekend as each runner beat her previous time.
Egle Kregzdyte led the way with a run of 18:32.21, good for 19th.
Every girl ran faster today than they did last weekend, Pigg said. Theyve made lots of progress this week. Its nice to see them improving this way.
