This is the second installment in the series of looking back at the best events of the 2012 cross country season.

Alabama State University's cross country teams had a strong finish to the regular season as the women finished first at the Coach "O" Invitational and the men finished second.

The Lady Hornets finished with 25 points out-distancing the home standing Trojans who finished with 34 points.

Three of the Lady Hornets finished among the top-10, led by Paige Rankin's second-place finish. She crossed the finish line in 20:02.69. Artrailia LeSane (20:42.14) had a fourth-place finish and Kimberly Wedderburn finished sixth (21:01.54).

The rest of the Lady Hornets finished from 11^th to 16^th led by Santina Williams (22:06.74) in 11th. Shantia Wilson was 13^th (22:41.12), Jerrica Mahone was 15^th (22:44.45) and Soyong Smith was 16^th (23:00.53).

The men finished with 40, points trailing only Troy who finished with 18. The men's finish was paced by Brandon Coombs who finished fifth in the event with a time of 30:17.93. Cory Nwaiji was the second Hornet to finish among the top-10 with his 10^th-place finish crossing the line in 30:43.97.

James Walker's time of 31:51.39 placed him 13^th and Carleddy St. Jean (34:07.32) finished 18^th and Malcolm Brockton (36:43.78) finished 22^nd.

"Overall I think we did ok," Head Coach Ritchie Beene said. "There were some areas where I wanted us to do a little bit better. I think where we needed to work at was running the hills and they did that. I really liked the way everybody finished. They all got off to good starts, finished strong and sprinted it out and that is what they were supposed to do."

This was the toughest course the ASU teams had run all season, having two major hills to contend with on multiple times during the run. It was the test Coach Beene was looking for.

"The hills really took a lot out of us," Beene said. "They are steep and long, but I thought we were able to accomplish what we came here to do and we got some great experience running hills."

"We know what some of the key things we really need to focus on as we prepare for the SWAC," Beene said. "First of all, we need to get everyone healthy and we need to continue to work on improving our finishing and the middle part of the race. If we can take care of those areas we should be alright."