ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- The Parkside men's cross country team returned to action on Saturday afternoon, competing in the Lewis Crossover meet. In the largest meet of the season the Rangers finished 15^th out of 31 teams. Individually the Rangers had a huge day, with 14 of the 16 competing runners setting a new personal best in the 8k race.
 
"Our team ran pretty well today in our first big test of the season against a lot of great national level teams," said Director of Track and Field & Cross-Country Nick Maas. We had a ton of personal best marks across the entire team. We do need to work on being a little more aggressive in large races to set ourselves up will in championship races. That's an easy tweak and we'll be ready as we approach the GLIAC championships in a few weeks."
 
Uriah Aili led the Rangers with a personal best 8k time of 24:48.0, finishing 34^th. Johnathon Nowacki had a massive personal best on Saturday, running the race in a time of 25:01.5, which is over a minute improvement from his previous best. He finished 57^th. Ellery Pleier, Grady Davis, Max Rahm, Wil Kiley and Austin Depuydt rounded out the scoring top seven for the Rangers.
 
The Rangers will return to action on October 21^st at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference (GLIAC) Championships in Houghton, Michigan. Links to live results can be found at ParksideRagners.com/coverage.