NORMAL, Ill.—University of Southern Indiana Men’s Cross Country junior Noah Hufnagel (Santa Claus, Indiana) and sophomore Mitchell Hopf (Santa Claus, Indiana) clocked top-10 finishes Friday evening at the Illinois State University Redbird Invite to lead the No. 16 Screaming Eagles to a second-place finish in a 12-team field that featured USI and 11 NCAA Division I programs.

Hufnagel finished second out of 116 competitors with an eight-kilometer time of 24 minutes, 26.60 seconds, while his high school teammate, Hopf, was ninth with a time of 24:47.50. The University of Illinois’s Jonathan Davis won the race with a time of 23:22.80.

In addition to Hufnagel and Hopf, the Eagles got a 17th-place finish from senior Wyat Harmon (Fredericktown, Ohio) as well as a 19th-place showing from junior Titus Winders (Mansfield, Tennessee). Harmon finished the course in 25:04.80, while Winders crossed the finish line in 25:08.20.

Sophomore Taylor Mills (Warsaw, Indiana) rounded out the Eagles’ top five with a 32nd-place finish, while freshman Silas Winders (Mansfield, Indiana) and junior Cameron Cox (Huntsville, Alabama) completed USI’s top seven with respective finishes of 37th and 52nd.

USI finished the meet with 79 points, five ahead of third-place Loyola University Chicago and 45 behind first-place Illinois. DePaul University (115 points) and host Illinois State (153 points) rounded out the top-five finishers.

The Eagles return to action October 9 at 7:30 a.m. when they compete at the University of Alabama-Huntsville Charger Invitational in Huntsville, Alabama.