MINNEAPOLIS — The No. 27 nationally-ranked Michigan Tech men’s cross country squad earned its second Jo Rider Maroon Men’s race team victory in four years scoring 35 points at the Roy Griak Invitational on Friday afternoon. Junior Sophia Rhein came away with a fourth-place finish in the Suzy Wilson Maroon Race to lead the Tech women.

The 35 point team victory for the men’s team tied the best team score since the 1993 Augustana (S.D.) team that also needed 35 points to win the meet.

“The men showed us today what we really are,” Huskies coach Robert Young said. “We know the course is a tough one, so we planned to be conservative early and aggressive late in the race. The results show how clearly they embraced this being in sixth or seventh at the mile, but finishing well clear of the field

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