Women’s

NDSU’s Reagan Baesler had a great meet in Vermillion, South Dakota over the weekend, claiming the Summit League individual title and leading the Bison women to a second-place finish as a team. This is the fifth Summit League individual crown the Bison women have received, with the most recent being in 2019 by Kelby Anderson.

The senior ran through the finish line ribbon with a time of 20:34.1, breaking the course record for the six-kilometer race and is the second fastest winning 6k performance in Summit League Championships history. Baesler beat the runner up by 24 seconds.

Senior Grace Link came in fifth place out of 76 runners with a time of 21:03.6. Three freshmen then completed the team scoring, with Jenna DeBates in 16th (21:47.0), Jaelyn Miller in 22nd (22:08.1), and Reagan Berg in 28th (22:20.3). Baesler and Link earned All-Summit League first team honors as top seven finishers on Saturday morning.

The Bison finished with 70 points as a team. South Dakota State earned the team title with 41 points. St. Thomas and South Dakota both followed NDSU with 95 points each. North Dakota’s Eliana Malnourie placed second in 20:58.09 and South Dakota State’s Courtney Stadter came in just over a second later in 20:59.88.

Men’s

North Dakota State men took second place as a team at Saturdays championship meet, with senior Hunter Klimek continuing to lead the herd with a fourth-place finish overall.

Klimek finished the eight-kilometer race with a time of 24:29.1, with senior Jake Arason taking seventh place out of 64 competitors in 24:47.2. The team scoring was completed by redshirt freshman Ethan Moe in 11th (24:58.6), Will Gerber in 17th (25:07.6), and Tyson Mahar in 19th (25:10.7). Klimek and Arason earned All-Summit League first team honors as top seven finishers, while Moe claimed the second team honors. Klimek’s finish ties for the third-best NDSU individual placing at the Summit League meet. The Bison men have finished in second place at the conference meet seven times in the past eight years.

NDSU finished with 57 points as a team. South Dakota State men earned the team title as well with 25 points and South Dakota placed third with 100 points. Five out of the top ten finishers represented the Jackrabbits, with Carson Noecker coming in at 23:51.47 in second place and Cody Larson in 24:15.93 in third. Oral Roberts’ Abraham Chelengam took the individual time with 23:41.43.

The cross-country teams will compete next in Peoria, Illinois on Nov. 15th at the NCAA Midwest Regional.