GUNNISON, Colo.— Colorado Mesa University redshirt sophomore Kira MacGill won a sprint finish to claim the individual victory at the Mountaineer Invite cross country meet on Saturday morning here at Gunnison Middle School.
 
MacGill won the 5-kilomter race in 18 minutes, 0.3 seconds to edge Western Colorado University's Katie Doucette by three tenths of a second and in the process became the first Maverick woman since 2014 to win an individual title.
 
MacGill finished second at last year's meet, nearly 40 seconds behind Doucette.
 
On Saturday, she became the first Maverick individual winner since Tess Skoe won the 2014 Maverick Open. He time was just one second off her 5K personal best, quite an accomplishment considering her PR was run much closer to sea level in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Saturday's race was held at more than 7,700 feet of elevation.
 
As a team, the Mavericks finished Saturday's race with a team score of 39 points behind the host and nation's seventh-ranked Mountaineers, who had the second through sixth place finishers to tally a winning team score of 20 points.
 
Maverick redshirt freshman Kendall White and sophomore Alyssa Britton also finished in the top ten as White took seventh in 19:13.9 while Britton was tenth in 19:27.0.
 
Ricky Maestas was 12^th overall and tenth amongst team scorers in 19:39.4 while Elaina Arcand competed CMU's team score with a 14^th place finish and 12 points.  She finished in 20:13.3.
 
Ally Herring led a group of unattached runners on the CMU roster, finishing 19^th amongst 30 total women in 20:46.7.
 
Saturday's meet, which amounted to a dual with Western, was CMU's season-opener.
 
The Maverick men also had a solid showing with two of the top three and three top-8 finishers.
 
The Mavericks will return to action on Oct. 8, hosting the Gig Leadbetter Maverick Stampede at the Lincoln Park Golf Course.