JOPLIN, Mo. – The Southern Arkansas Women's Cross Country team was back in action on Saturday morning at the nationally-renown Southern Stampede and the Muleriders performed well. The young Muleriders placed 23^rd among a deep and highly-talented field of regional competitors.
 
Sophomore Logan Warren led the squad with a top 80 finish in 18:58.55. Sophomore Dakota Cassidy followed at 19:40.44 and was the first of three Muleriders that recorded times inside the field's top 130. Alyzah McGlasson's time of 19:46.00 placed her five spots back of Cassidy at 116^th. True freshman Ava Zindler finished in 128^th behind a result of 20:14.75 which betters her 5K time in her debut two weekends ago. Bronwyn Buchanan rounded out the point-scoring runners with a time of 21:37.86 which put her in 157^th.
 
SAU's top five averaged 20:03.52 per result with a total time of 1:40:17.59. The Muleriders topped Central Oklahoma, Southwestern Oklahoma and Northwestern Oklahoma­­.
 
True freshman J'aime Brown and grad Alyssa Solis both logged results inside the top 175. Brown's personal best 5K time of 22:55.43 placed her 166^th and Solis' finish in 23:34.74 resulted in 172^nd place.
 
Southern Arkansas prepares for another nationally-renown race as the Chile Pepper Festival hosted by the University of Arkansas awaits on Friday, September 30 in Fayetteville.