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DETROIT (11/11/2015) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's and women's cross country teams will look to put it all together in an effort to continue their season as the Titans travel to Wisconsin for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship on Friday, Nov. 13.

The event will take place on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course with the women's 6k race starting at 1:00 p.m., (EST) and the men's 10k race to follow at 2:00 p.m. Live results of the race can be found by clicking here.
 
The top 25 runners will be named All-Region, while a total of 31 teams will move onto the NCAA DI Championships with 18 automatic bids (top two teams in each region), and 13 at-large bids. After teams have been determined, 38 additional individuals per gender are selected to compete at the NCAA Championships. From those teams not selected already, the top four finishers at each regional are automatically selected, but they must finish within the top 25 of the region.

The 10k race will be the first of the year of that distance for the red, white and blue.

The men are coming off a fifth-place finish at the Horizon League Championship, ending the Titans two-year run as conference champs. Sophomore Ben Kendell led the way earning runner-up with a time of 24:41, a new career record as well as a time that is tied for second in school history.

The second-place performance gave him First Team All-Horizon League honors for the second-straight season. Last year, he took 79th in 31:53 at the GLR, the best time ever by a Titan freshman at the NCAA event and the sixth quickest in school history. 

Senior Derek Gielarowski was 20th at the HL Championship in 25:42, while senior Austin Wigent just missed his PR by three seconds clocking 25:53 for 21st.

In last year's NCAA race, senior Colin Creagh led three Titans in the top 100 as Detroit tied for its best finish ever by taking 16th. UDM tallied 498 total points for 16th, tying for the best finish with the 1985 squad that had 413 points.
 
UDM came into the race having recorded two top-100 runners nine times in its history at the race, but with Creagh claiming 51st, Kendell 79th and Gielarowski placing 82nd, the Titans had three harriers in the top 90. 

Titan Hall-of-Famer Ken Dubois still holds the best performance ever by a Titan at the NCAA GLR finishing 23rd in 1985.