RESULTS

SPEARFISH, S.D. - #3 Colorado School of Mines men's cross country stormed to a nearly-perfect RMAC championship, completing the first title in program history at Black Hills State University.

The Orediggers ran 2-3-4-5-6 for their scoring five, setting a 20-point score to win by 24 over defending conference champion and nationally #1-ranked Adams State. Even with the 2015 NCAA Division II team title to its credit, the RMAC championship had always eluded Mines since the meet's establishment in 1965. Chris Siemers earned RMAC Coach of the Year honors and third-place finisher Logan Ramlet was the RMAC Freshman of the Year, the first Oredigger to ever win the award.

The Mines women turned in a solid fifth-place finish with a score of 138, led by Hanna Barringer's 13th-place finish.

MEN'S RACE
The Orediggers dominated with five of the top six finishers to run away with their first-ever RMAC Championship over #1 Adams State.

Nathanael Williams, Logan Ramlet, Grant Colligan, Ben Schneiderman, and Dan Mahoney ran 2-3-4-5-6 behind individual champion Sydney Gidabuday of ASU. In a race with five teams ranked in the USTFCCCA top 15, Mines' top five stuck together for a cumulative 2:07.47 time.

Williams headed the Orediggers' scoring group with a 25:18 time, less than two seconds off Gidabuday with a 5:05 pace to be the silver medalist. Ramlet, a redshirt freshman, made his RMAC debut a good one in third at a time of 25:35, two seconds ahead of Colligan, Schneiderman, and Mahoney who all ran 25:37 at a 5:09 pace. 

Mines could have taken any combination of its top seven and still won the team title as Nick Sevcik came in 10th at 25:49, and Josh Hoskinson was 18th in 26:06, a second and a spot ahead of Matthew Kade. Chris Erwin was 34th in 26:44. Mines' top five plus Sevcik earned First-Team All-RMAC honors; Hoskinson and Kade were Second-Team honorees.

#8 CSU-Pueblo, #6 Western State, and Chadron State rounded out the top five in the team standings.

WOMEN'S RACE
Mines ran to a fifth-place finish as their young lineup continues to develop for a shot at the NCAA regional meet in two weeks' time.

Mines scored 138 points to finish behind four nationally-ranked teams as #1 Adams State defended its title and #4 Western State, #21 CSU-Pueblo, and #11 UCCS rounded out the top four.

Hanna Barringer led the way for the Orediggers in 23:13.85 to place 13th, picking up First-Team All-RMAC honors in the process. Kara Burton notched a Second-Team All-RMAC finish in 25th at 23:47 as Mines' second finisher, while a pack of four Orediggers came in together with Brook Eberle (23nd, 24:08), Elizabeth Starbuck (34th, 24:14), Molly Reicher (37th, 24:18), and Michaela Reynolds (38th, 24:19)..

Juliann Coffey was Mines' seventh finisher in 51st (24:55), and Katie Knapp (61st, 25:22) and Dallas Frisbie (62nd, 25:26) rounded out the lineup.