NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind.-- The Trine women's cross country team placed second in the Manchester University Hokum Karem Tuesday night.
Thunder runners earned the team 14 points in the season-opening race. The race consisted of pairs of runners alternating one-mile laps. Each runner in a pairing ran three laps for a total combined distance of six miles. The team's best performance was turned in by the pairing of Courtney Forsythe (West Mansfield, Ohio/Benjamin Logan) and Hannah Blystone (Carmel, Ind./Carmel), who combined to place third.
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Forsythe and Blystone combined to finish the race in 38:05.06, good enough for an average mile pace of 6:21. That pace was just three seconds off the first-place finishing duo.
Lacie Piekarski (Spring Lake, Mich./Spring Lake) and Kyla Binfet (West Yellowstone, Mont./West Yellowstone) finished second among Thunder runners and fourth overall. With an average mile pace of 6:14, the duo turned in a time of 38:14.5.
The final Trine pairing was made up of Heather Richardson (Fort Wayne, Ind./South Side) and Samantha Stensland (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern). Richardson and Stensland averaged a 6:47 mile pace to finish seventh overall.
Trine will compete in the Indiana Intercollegiate Friday, Sept. 18 at Indiana State University.
Team standings from the Hokum Karem are listed below.
1. Manchester, 8
2. Trine 14
3. Defiance- No team score
