LAKELAND, Fla.- The Ave Maria University cross country teams competed in their first full-length event on Friday morning, running in the FLRunners.com Invitational at Holloway Park in Lakeland. The women ran a 5k race and the men competed in an 8k, which are the lengths of both The Sun Conference and the NAIA championships. The women placed second in a seven-team field, while the men took third.