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MUNCIE, Ind. -- The Ball State cross country program will hit the course running a month from today (July 31), when it opens the 2018 season Aug. 31 at the Butler Twilight.
For the Cardinals, who return 10 letterwinners and all five scored runners from last season's Mid-American Conference Championship, it will be the fifth straight season the team travels down I-69 to begin the year on the Bulldogs' course at Northview Christian Church in Carmel, Indiana.
"With a solid core of returning runners and a talented group of incoming freshmen, our goal was to put together a schedule that will not only help us grow together as a team early, but also challenge us to compete at a high level each time we are out on the course," first-year distance coach Rachel McFarlane said.