Several members of the men’s and women’s BG cross country team broke their personal records in Saturday’s Mid-American Conference

championships.

The women’s team finished fourth overall with 127 points.

“We accomplished the goals that we set for ourselves back in August with being a top four team,” said head coach Lou Snelling. “We saw potential in terms of this whole group is back next year, so we saw a lot of good things today.”

Junior Becca Rae led the women’s team with a personal best time of 21:13, coming in 13th place and nabbing a second-team all MAC performance. Her time broke her previous best of 22:01, which was set at last year’s MAC title race.

“I was really happy with it,” Rae said. “After all the work we’ve done leading up to this, I was happy to get that payoff at the end of the season.”

“She won all-MAC, got to be happy about that,” Snelling said. “She started off aggressive, had some problems in the middle but really went after it in the latter portions of

the race.”

Along with Rae, every member of the Falcons’ top seven set new personal records.

Redshirt freshman Allison Francis beat her previous record by 1:20, clocking in at 21:47. Mackenzie McMillin beat her’s by finishing short of just one minute. Redshirt junior Maria Meredith set a new record for the second meet in a row, finishing with a time of 22:53.

On the men’s side, Taberner finished first for the Falcons, coming in 46th in the race with a time of 25:53. This was also a new personal record for him, breaking his previous one by

37 seconds.

“Kohl Taberner has stepped up,” said assistant coach Eric Thatcher. “He put himself into position to have that type of race today and that should give him confidence that the work he is putting in is continuing to pay off.”

Freshman Travis Jex and redshirt freshman Nathan Tuck both set new records by over 40 seconds. Jex’s time was 26:27 and Tuck’s was 26:35, respectively.

As a whole, BG’s time drastically improved from last year’s with a total of 26:34, almost 30 seconds faster than in 2013. In the men’s group, six out of the eight runners, most of whom are freshman and redshirt freshman, set new personal best times.

“I’m pleased with the individual performances,” Thatcher said. “We saw a lot of personal records set and we’re seeing them progress

appropriately.”

The Falcons will head to Wisconsin in two weeks for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Meet on Nov. 14.