Results

COLFAX, Wis. – Saint John's cross country finished fourth out of 26 teams at Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Blugold Invitational on Friday, Sept. 30, at Whitetail G.C. in Colfax, Wis.

No. 17 St. Olaf won the race with 44 points, followed by No. 26 Wisconsin-Stout (71), No. 30 UWEC (124), SJU (130) and Wisconsin-Oshkosh (158). Each team's top-five finishers contributed to the team score.

A national entrant last fall, junior Lloyd Young (Bloomington, Minn./Kennedy) made his 2022 debut and finished seventh out of 406 runners - sixth among NCAA Division III participants - with an 8k time of 25:03.

Junior Carter Grove (Osakis, Minn.) was 53rd at the 5k mark and moved up 28 spots to finish 25th (25:43). Sophomore Eamon Cavanaugh (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park and River Forest) followed in 34th (25:53), while junior Tommy Allen (Woodbury, Minn./St. Paul Academy) and senior Dillon Diekmann (Lake Elmo, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) crossed the finish line in 41st (25:59) and 43rd (26:01), respectively.

The Johnnies return to Wisconsin in two weeks for Wisconsin-La Crosse's Jim Drews Invitational at noon Saturday, Oct. 15, at Maple Grove Venues, LLC in West Salem, Wis.