BISMARCK, N.D. – You always want to see your team improve as the season progresses and that's exactly what the Minot State runners have done.

Racing on the same McDowell Dam course as a month earlier when they opened the cross-country season, Paulette Dominguez crushed her own school record in the women's 6-kilometer race and Grayson Bonilla ran a personal best in the men's 8K as both finished in the Top 10 Friday at the Marauder Open hosted by the University of Mary.

Dominguez finished 4th and was closely followed by teammate Bailey Wride in 5th as they helped the Minot State women finish 2^nd as a team in the Beavers final meet before Minot State hosts the NSIC Championships on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Souris Valley Golf Course.

Bonilla powered the Minot State men's 4^th-place finish as he was 8^th individually on the day.

The host Marauders won 3-of-4 titles on the day as Alyssa Becker won the women's race in 20 minutes, 5.5 seconds, and Mary's Gideon Hammah won the men's race in 24:49.7. The Marauder women also finished first as a team with 19 points, while the Mary men were 2^nd to team champion Northern State, which scored 31 points.

The Minot State women were 2^nd with 40 points and the Beaver men were 4^th with 80 points.

Dominguez led the women as she was 4th in 21:53.9, crushing the NCAA Division II-era 6K record of 22:26.6 she ran on the same course a month ago.

Less than a second behind her was Wride in 5th in 21:54.8, while teammate Sidra Sadowsky added one more Top 10 finish for the Beavers as she was 9th in 22:44.1. 

Emery Smith finished 16th in 23:24.5 for Minot State and Nicole Reeves was 17th in 23:32.5, rounding out the scores for the Beavers.

Baylee Lura was next finishing 24th in 24:17.5, Afton Wride was 27th in 24:42.6, Julie Folk was 28^th in 24:45.0, Addyson Wendt was 33rd in 25:13.3, and Natalie Becker was 35th in 25:57.1 for Minot State as the entire Beaver women's team ran personal-best 6K times on the day.

On the men's side, Bonilla was 8th in 26:08.7 as he ran a career-best 6K time and shaved 29 seconds off his performance a month earlier at McDowell Dam.

Running as a strong pack, Yoni Neyshtadt, Marco Murillo, and Jake Jenkins finished 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th on the day as Neyshtadt finished in 26:43.1, Murillo clocked a time of 26:47.7, and Jenkins ran the course in 26:48.9. Holter Bridwell rounded out the scoring times for Minot State as he was 25th in 27:38.1.

All five of the Minot State men who scored in the meet ran personal best 8K times.

Next for the Beavers was Nikita Neyshtadt, who finished 32nd in 28:25.0, then Kaden Vermillion, who was 37th in 29:12.2, Peyton Tuhy, who was 39th in 29:29.2, Zander Grover, who was 44th in 30:04.4, Isaac Rathbun, who was 45th in 30:05.7, and Auston Lemer, who was 49th in 31:36.4.