Junior Grace Breiten leads the pack at Southern Stampede in Joplin, Missouri. Breiten finished in fourth place with a career best 5-kilometer race time of 17:38.2.
Bill Sioholm/The StandardThe cross country Bears traveled to Peoria, Illinois, for the Missouri Valley Conference Championships, hosted by Bradley.
Missouri State was seeded sixth in the coaches poll and came out right where the predictions had them — sixth.
“We certainly had our sights set on a top-three finish,” head coach Jordan Fife said. “We knew we had to be at our best today. We just weren’t at our best and took sixth.