Results
 
COLORADO SPRINGS – The Colorado School of Mines men's and women's cross country teams closed out their regular-season campaign Saturday morning by racing at the Colorado Springs XC Open at Monument Valley Park North.
 
Neither of Saturday's races included team scoring. The first gun was at 9:15 a.m. for the men's 8K. In that race, Mines was led by Gael McLain Martinez who finished 11th in 25:22.4 Nathaniel Bartunek followed in 22nd at a 25:39.8 pace. Jack Sheehan made it three Orediggers in the top 25 by taking 25th after clocking 25:45.6. Calder Denham and Julian Ryter rounded out what would have been Mines' scoring five, finishing 32nd and 42nd, respectively. Quinton Rodriguez, James Beam, Asher Feddock, Julien Frazier, Kai Wagner, Ty Forbes, Jackson Rogers, Brian Arndt, Owen Mangrum, Skyler Gillham, and Duncan Lorang were also on the course for the Oredigger men.
 
The women's 6K was the next race of the day. There, the Mines duo of Jemma Petrie and Madison Miles went 9-10 to pace the Orediggers. Petrie posted a 22:09.3 and Miles went 22:14.8. Next was the pack of Chloe Savoy, Maria Forster, Olivia Tallent, and Sasha Kelly claiming 15th, 17th, 20th, and 22nd. Savoy, Forster, and Tallent would have capped potential scoring with Kelly displacing on a standard seven-person squad. The rest of Mines' contingency included Elsa Vessely, Lilly Lukens, Emma Chesterman, Reese Kindig, Kara Tokubo, Elise Wrenholt, Sorrelle Salcido, Brooke Bundt, Kaitlyn Burns, and Gwenyth Elizalde.
 
Mines now looks to the postseason which starts with the 2026 RMAC Cross Country Championships on Nov. 7 in Rapid City, S.D.
 
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