Hawks each place 5th at Yellowjacket Invite

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Dickinson State tallied two fifth-place finishes at the Yellowjacket Invitational on Saturday.

The Blue Hawks cracked the top 10 on the men’s side with Roberto Quintero running a time of 26 minutes.

On the women’s side, Gladys Rotich placed 12th (18:45) and was four seconds short of a top-10 finish.

Carroll College won the women’s 5K race with a team score of 42. Black Hills State handily took the men’s 8K race with 34 points.

Jed Morgan of Black Hills State won the men’s race with a time of 24 minutes, 57 seconds. Montana State-Billings’ Sarah Graves took first in the women’s race (17:29).

Yellowjacket Invitational

At Billings, Mont.

Men team scores: Black Hills State 34, Carroll 60, Rocky Mountain 64, Montana State-Billings 77, Dickinson State 123.

Individual winner: 1, Jed Morgan, Black Hills State, 24:57.

Dickinson State finishers: 10, Roberto Quintero 26:00. 28, Edwin Chelashaw 26:59. 34, Dustin Sandbak 27:20. 37, Chris Gill 27:45. 46, Daniel Patrick 28:53. 48, Clayton Steinmetz 29:09.

Women team scores: Carroll 42, Rocky Mountain 55, Black Hills State 60, Montana State-Billings 94, Dickinson State 116.

Individual winner: 1, Sarah Graves, Montana State-Billings, 17.29.

Dickinson State finishers: 12, Gladys Rotich 18:45. 21, Brittany Young 19:18. 28, Stormie Sickler 20:00. 42, Samantha Pounds 21:17. 45, Rose Byrne 21:51. 46, Mariela Sanchez 21:57.

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