Two area cross country runners will be running in upcoming national meets.

Senior Brock Loftus, of Ohio, led the University of Illinois-Springfield cross country team to a runner-up finish at the GLVC Championships on Saturday at Lewis University in Romeoville,

He finished eighth with a time of 24:30, the fifth-fastest 8K time in program history, earning All-GLVC honors

The Prairie Stars, who had their eighth straight top-three team finish at conference, will run in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championships in Kenosha, Wisc., on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Sauk Valley’s Kiana Brokaw, a sophomore from Princeton, has qualified for Sunday’s NJCAA National Championships in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She placed 8th with a season-best 22:24.2 in the NCJAA Region IV Meet in Geneva.