Freshman Andrew Fastrup placed 14th to lead The Master's University men's cross country team to a seventh-place finish at the Highlander Invitational on Saturday. TMU was one of 16 scoring teams at UC Riverside's Ag Ops Course.
The Mustangs scored 192 points against a field made up mostly of NCAA Division I and Division II programs. They finished ahead of Biola (199), CSUN (215), UC Santa Barbara (219) and GSAC rival Embry-Riddle Arizona (221). Cal State Fullerton won the team title with 76 points.
Fastrup covered the 8K course in 24:12.3, finishing 11th among scoring runners. He was the first Mustang across the line by more than 26 seconds.
TMU's next four scorers ran nearly as a group, with just 20 seconds separating them:
The Mustangs' 1-5 split was 32.3 seconds, and their scorers averaged 24:38.
Junior Bauer Hollman finished half a second behind Rojas in 68th (24:56.8). That broke his previous best of 25:03, set on the same course at last year's Highlander. Senior Isaiah Fastrup was 78th (25:06.0) to round out TMU's top seven.
Also running for TMU:
The Highlander was TMU's final regular-season meet. The Mustangs will host the GSAC Championships on Friday, Nov. 6, at Central Park in Santa Clarita.
