NORTHFIELD, Minn. - Isla Duncan finished in 13th place to lead five Athenas in the top 100 (out of 324 runners), as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's cross country team finished seventh of 35 teams at the NCAA Division III Pre-Nationals on Saturday. 

Duncan finished in 21:46.9 to earn the top time among the SCIAC teams in the competition. Olivia Backholm finished 57th and Sienna Faidi 58th in virtually identical times of 22:32.4, while Brannan Rosenfeld was 75th in 22:41.8 and Revere Schmidt 96th in 22:53.4.

Kylie Brunelli was just outside the top 100 with a 22:57.0 to come in 102nd place, while Nevis Murphy was 114th and Jie Yi Denise Chen was 118th. 

CMS will be back in action next week when it competes at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.