CONTOOCOOK, N.H. - First-year Jersey Miller (Minneapolis, Minn./Saint Louis Park) took 10th place and both Saint Michael's College cross country squads cracked the top seven at Franklin Pierce University's 20-school Bruce Kirsh Cross Country Cup on Friday at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds.
 
TEAM RESULTS

• The Saint Michael's women, who were ninth in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II East Region poll, placed fifth among 19 schools with 157 points, trimming sixth-place Southern New Hampshire University by one point. The Penmen were seventh in the most recent regional rankings. Both trailed fourth-place Southern Connecticut State University (113), which is fourth in the East, for the top spot among non-Division I institutions.
• The women's field also featured champion University of Connecticut (28), which is fifth in the USTFCCCA Division I Northeast Region rankings while receiving votes toward the national poll. Fellow Division I squads University of Maine (47) and University of Massachusetts (105) capped the top three.
• The Purple Knight men took seventh in a 20-school field, totaling 178 points to edge the eighth-place University of New Haven (181) and narrowly trail sixth-place Southern New Hampshire (173), which was fourth in the latest regional rankings.
• Otherwise, Saint Michael's was behind a trio of Division I squads in champion Maine (36), UMass Lowell (64) and UMass (68), the latter two of which are top 10 in the Northeast rankings; host Franklin Pierce (121), which is eighth in the East; and Plymouth State University (147), which holds 10th place in the Division III East Region poll.

WOMEN'S LEADERS

• First-year Jersey Miller (Minneapolis, Minn./Saint Louis Park)
  • 10th of 123 finishers in 6K, 22:51.58 (PR)
  • Trailed 7 Division I runners
• Sophomore Fran Peterson (Barron, Wis./Barron)
  • 17th, 23:11.46
• Sophomore Kennedy Holsapple (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme)
  • 50th, 25:31.26
• Sophomore Kayley Bell (Caribou, Maine/Caribou)
  • 53rd, 25:49.58 (PR)
• Junior Jocelyn Sommers (Dalton, Mass./Wahconah Regional)
  • 54th, 25:54.71 (PR)
• First-year Jordan Munro (Holliston, Mass./Holliston)
  • 66th, 26:49.27 (PR)
• Senior Izzy Quam (Stillwater, Minn./Mounds Park Academy)
  • 67th, 26:50.63 (PR)

MEN'S LEADERS

• Junior Braden Butler (South Berwick, Maine/Marshwood)
  • 31st of 126 finishers in 8K, 26:44.63 (PR)
• Sophomore Andrew Scanio (Lake Placid, N.Y./Lake Placid)
  • 33rd, 26:53.23
• First-year Andrew Cole (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland)
  • 41st, 27:10.36 (PR)
• Sophomore Adam Bilodeau (Lewiston, Maine/Lewiston)
  • 42nd, 27:11.19 (PR)
• First-year Taggart Schrader (East Montpelier, Vt./U-32)
  • 68th, 28:49.09 (PR)
• Senior Pat McGloine (Schuylerville, N.Y./Schuylerville)
  • 70th, 28:50.29
• First-year Cooper Brennan (Wilton, N.Y./South Glens Falls)
  • 72nd, 28:55.42

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET

• Oct. 27 at Northeast-10 Conference Championship in Hopkinton State Fairgrounds in Contoocook, N.H.