Grinnell, IA -- The Indian Hills men's cross country team saw a big improvement in times over the previous meet as the Warriors took part in the Les Duke Invitational, hosted by Grinnell College, on Saturday.
All five of the IHCC runners were faster by at least a minute, and a couple of them by over 2 1/2 minutes, from the Dutch Invitational the previous week.
Eric Davis (Quincy, Ill.) again led the Warriors, finishing in 55th place with a time of 29:10, 1:51 faster than his previous best.
Davis was followed closely by Colter Hentzel (Ft. Madison), who improved his time by 2:11, finishing in 29:15. Ray Quiroz (Columbus Junction) was a little over a minute better in 30:31.
Hunter Wilz (Eddyville) made the biggest improvement on the squad, running 32:44, or 2:48 faster than at Central. Austin Emry (Grinnell) made almost as big an improvement, lowering his previous best time by 2:27 and clocking a 33:32.
Coach Jim Streeby said the results of the meet left him "speechless." "As a team we took our previous 8K average time down from 33:07 to 31:03," said Streeby. "It was great weather, a good field of 14 teams and an Indian Hills team eager to run a strong race."
The Warriors have two weeks off before the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational in Rock Island, Ill. and the IHCC coach says they will go back to work to continue to get stronger and faster.
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