Men's Results | Women's Results
Brookings, S.D. – The Northern State University cross country team's traveled to South Dakota State University Saturday, for a pair of runs in Brookings. The NSU men took second in the college division while the women took first in their respective division.
 
Tanner Peltier led the way for the NSU men taking seventh overall with a time of 27:24.43. Peltier was followed by Clay Danielson and Ben Jack just seconds later. Also placing in the top 20 was Blake Perryman and Nathan Patterson. The Wolves tallied 56 total points in second place.

Dakotah Bullen and Nicole Arnold finished third and fourth overall for the NSU women with times of 18:18.75 and 19:09.83. Also placing in the top ten was Lindsey Gast, Paige Larson, and Hanna Wahl. The Wolves women led the way with 18 team points and an 11 second led over second place University of Jamestown.
 
Coach Bjerke's thoughts on the men.
 
The men were once again led by local standout freshmen Tanner Peltier (Aberdeen Central HS), who would lead the Wolves to a second place team finish out of 4 non-Division I programs. Peltier finished with a personal best 27:24.43 in his second career 8k race to place 43^rd overall and seventh among non-Division I competition. Following shortly behind Peltier were Clay Danielson and Ben Jack who finished 44^th and 47^th overall with times of 27:29.27 and 27:35.24. Rounding out the scoring top five for the Wolves were Blake Perryman and Nathan Patterson, finishing in 53^rd and 61^st places overall with times of 28:08.54 and 28:38.16.
 
 
Coach Bjerke's thoughts on the women.
 
Bullen finished 12^th overall and third among non-Division I runners en-route to her career fastest 5k time of 18:18.75 on a cross country course. That was a common trend among the rest of the women's squad, as four of the five Wolves finishers recorded their personal best 5k cross country times. The Wolves lone senior, Nicole Arnold, saw the biggest improvement from earlier this season by dropping her personal best from the Herb Blakely Invitational by 27 seconds to 19:09.83 and once again finish as the team's second runner. Lindsey Gast, Paige Larson and Hanna Wahl all stayed within sight of each other to finish sixth, seventh and tenth among non-Division I runners (37^th, 40^th and 48^th overall out of 87 runners) in times of 19:37.78, 19:45.00 and 20:00.24 respectively. The team nearly doubled up points on second place Jamestown to win the non-Division I scoring, and would have finished ahead of both Division I programs of University of North Dakota and Nebraska-Omaha had they been scored together.
 
The men's and women's cross country teams will be back in action next weekend at the Jimmie Invitational, with the men racing at 4 p.m., and the women following at 4:45.