Kimutai Leads the Racers at Mizzou

Murray State women's cross country placed 22nd out of 24 at the Gans Creek Classic hosted by Missouri, Friday. The Racers showed even splits across the board.

"This meet we broke up the race strategy differently and I think it paid off," said cross country coach, Jordan Johnston. "Everyone's split were far more even and they stayed more engaged throughout."

Ruth Kimutai led the Racers pack throughout the race finishing the race at 127th with a time of 22:42.9. She split a time of 18:45.3 in her first 5,000 meter, 10 seconds faster than her 5k time in the season opener (18:55.0).

Second for the Racers was Samantha Tucci with 23:28.9, Jocelyn Host was third with a time of 23:32.2, fourth was Allison Wood (23:53.9) and Ainsley Smith rounds up the Racer top-five with a time of 24:16.1.

Wood and Smith worked together setting each other's pace in the first four kilometers before breaking up in the final stretch.

"Allison saw the biggest improvement with two-minute improvement from the last meet," Johnston said. "She's been working on all of the little things outside of practice that help with recovery and it's paying off."

The Racers will travel to the Bradley Pink Classic for their final non conference meet of the season at Peoria, Ill., Oct. 14.

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Players Mentioned

Jocelyn Host

Ruth Kimutai

Ainsley Smith

Samantha Tucci

Allison Wood

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