The Barton Community College men’s cross country team placed in the national Top 20 for the second year in a row finishing 17th Saturday at the 2015 NJCAA Division I Cross Country Championship held at the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Barton completed the 8k race in a combined 2:19:00 to average 27:48 per runner as two Cougars placed amongst the nation’s best 100 runners.Region VI Champion Sampson Laari led the Cougars with a sixth place finish improving on last year’s seventh placing coming in at 25:06.6 earning a 2nd Team All-American status. Laari stayed with the leading six pack of runners through the first mile of the 8k race before gradually dropping behind the 4:48 winning pace clocking a 5:03 per mile average.