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COLUMBUS – In it's lone home meet of the regular season, the Columbus State University men's and women's cross country teams had a pair of top-three showings on Saturday at the Cougar Classic. The meet was hosted at Stewart Field on Fort Benning.
 
The Cougar men had three top-10 finishers and took home the runner-up position, while the Lady Cougars tallied a third-place finish.
 
Wright Calhoun was the fastest Cougar on the course for the third straight meet, running the 8k course in 26:21.51 for fourth place overall.

William Michael ran his best meet of the season on Saturday, taking seventh place in a time of 26:52.70. Isaac Krumm followed in right behind him at 27:01.74 in eighth.
 
Noah Hollis (27:13.48) and Christopher Oswald (27:43.21) rounded out the team scoring for the Cougars in 13^th and 19^th place, respectively.
 
Noah Churchwell (27:57.74, 21^st), Mike Catron (28:46.61, 27^th), Tyler Sheffel (28:57.73, 29^th), Christopher Miles (29:15.40, 33^rd) and Timothy Thompson (31:21.86, 40^th) all ran as well for the Cougars.
 
Alli Hay continued to pace the Lady Cougars with the first top-10 finish of her collegiate career on Saturday. The freshman covered the 5k course in 18:58.46 for sixth place.
 
Eva Salazar Torres took home 16^th in 19:45.59, while Na'ilah Allen ended 23^rd in 20:28.37.
 
Dara Staton (21:11.90) and Jastonie Hill (21:20.04) ran 31^st and 33^rd, respectively, to wrap up the team portion of the score.
 
Tatiana Forester (21:21.65, 34^th) and Olivia Ivings (22:14.79, 43^rd) were the other Lady Cougars on the course.
 
Columbus State has one meet remaining in the regular season, as the two teams will head to Tallahassee, Fla. on Oct. 6 for the FSU Invitational.