FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The UALR men placed 15^th of 34 teams and the Trojan women placed 29^th of 43 teams at the 24^th Annual Chile Pepper Festival on Saturday. Felix Maritim led the UALR men's team (55^th, 32:15.4) in the 10K run and Marissa DeLaPaz (102^nd, 23:06.9) paced the women in the 6K.

Texas Tech's Kennedy Kithuka won the men's 10K in a time of 28:53.0 and the Oklahoma State men's team took the top overall team spot. On the women's side, Oklahoma's Jess Engel won the 6K in a time of 20:42.1, while the Arkansas women finished first as a team.

Maritim paced the Trojans for the second-straight event, finishing 55^th of 313 runners in the men's 10K in a time of 32:15.4 - good enough for 20^th on UALR's all-time 10K list.  Shaun Koehn placed 76^th in 32:36.4 as the second UALR men's finisher, while John Vodacek finished 92^nd in a time of 32:50.0.

DeLaPaz led the UALR women by placing 102^nd in a time of 23:06.9. Mackenzie Bloom wasn't far behind, finishing 105^th in 23:09.6. Both DeLaPaz's and Bloom's finishing times were good enough to place them in UALR's all-time top-20 6K times.

Tori Copeland was the third UALR women's finisher at 174^th in a time of 24:10.6.

Saturday's race served as the final regular season tune-up for the Trojans, as they will now begin preparing for the Sun Belt Championships on Saturday, Oct. 27 in Bowling Green, Ky.