AIKEN, S.C. – The University of South Carolina Aiken Women's Cross Country team finished second as a team at the Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 25.

The 2010 Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational served as USC Aiken's first full meet at USC Aiken's top-of-the-line home course, Pacer Path.

The Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational featured four different divisions with a men's collegiate 8K race and a women's collegiate 5K race. There were also 5K high school varsity girls and boys races on Saturday.

The Pacers finished in second as a team in the 5K women's collegiate race with a cumulative time of 1:50:56.05. The time was just short of first place finisher Clayton State, who ended its efforts on Saturday morning with a time of 1:44:52.60 as a team.

Two Pacers finished in the top eight in USC Aiken's first ever home cross country event with freshman Keely Gillespie (North Augusta, S.C./North Augusta) finishing fourth individually and Nicole Maitland (Chapin, S.C./Chapin) ending the race in eighth place.
Gillespie came in with a time of 20:52.39, while Maitland was just behind at 21:24.60.

Clayton State had the top three individual finishers with Samantha Walling collecting first place honors with a time of 19:45.34.

USC Aiken will next run in the Jaguar Invitational in Augusta, Ga. on Oct. 9, 2010. The meet is scheduled to commence at 9 a.m.