BOLIVAR, Mo. – Missouri S&T's men's cross country team recorded a fifth place finish and had an all-conference performer in Lucas Rackers (Florissant, MO/St. Louis University HS) Saturday morning at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Cross Country Championships at Bolivar Golf Course.

Rackers covered the eight-kilometer course in 25:31 to finish in 11^th place, earning one of the 20 all-conference spots as a result.  After being in 28^th place at the two-kilometer mark of the race, Rackers moved up to seventh in the second segment before setting in at the 11^th place spot for the latter stages of the race.

Joshua Nunn (Independence, MO/Truman) finished in 35^th place with a time of 26:45, while Samuel Patterson (Cameron, NC/Union Pines) was 44^th in 26:51 and Joshua Patterson (Cameron, NC/Union Pines) was in 48^th in 26:55.  Spencer Teske (Naperville, IL/Neuqua Valley) rounded out S&T's top five with a 58^th place finish in 27:07, while the other two scoring spots went to Zoran Rodriguez (Shawnee, KS/Bishop Miege) at 27:20 and Caleb Schoenberg (Wentzville, MO/Timberland) at 27:24.

Lewis captured the team championship with a score of 44 points and had three of the top seven runners in the 160-runner race as it finished 11 points in front of Illinois Springfield.  UIS' Cortland Ross captured the individual title in 24:36, 123 seconds ahead of Missouri-St. Louis' Benjamin VandenBrink.

Missouri S&T finished with 166 points in the meet.

The Miners will take part in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional in Evansville, Ind., on Nov. 4.