Lake Forest College Cross Country News & Notes October 23, 1999  Contact:  Scott Rucker, SID FORESTERS PICK UP THEIR PACE AT FIRST ANNUAL FORESTER INVITE      Home sweet home. At the Forester Invite, Lake Forest's only home meet of the season, twelve of the thirteen Lake Forest runners ran their top time of the season. The meet was the first-ever of its kind and was held at the Half Day Forest Preserve in Vernon Hills, IL on Saturday (Oct. 23). The meet was the second in school history that Lake Forest College has hosted and the first meet to bear the school's name. Last year, Lake Forest hosted the Border State Duals.      As a team, the Forester women placed an award-winning second (among collegiate teams) overall with 86 points as four runners broke into the top 25 for all-time top times in school history. Junior Michelle Murillo (Des Plaines, IL) was the Foresters' top finisher with a time of 20:06, good for sixth place in the 66-person race. Junior Sarah Simpson (Colorado Springs, CO) followed closely behind in 11th place with a time of 20:27 for the five-kilometer race. Murillo's and Simpson's times were the 11th and 14th fastest 5K times, respectively, in school history. It was Simpson's career best time and the third time this season that she has broken into the all-time top 25. Freshman Jill Hinrichs (Geneseo, IL), 20:53, ran the 21st fastest and sophomore Jen McGuire (San Francisco, CA), 20:54, the 24th fastest time in the five-year history of women's cross country program at Lake Forest. Freshman Melissa Brown's (Cape Coral, FL) 23rd place finish with a time of 21:00 rounded out the point-scorers for the Foresters. Molly Sutherland (St. Paul, MN), 22:36, and Lark Mills (Arlington, TX), 22:41, also ran season best times.      The Lake Forest men's team finished in ninth place out of 11 collegiate teams and each of the four Forester runners ran their season best time. Freshman Eric Crawley (Braintree, MA) became the first male runner this season to crack the all-time top 25 when he completed the eight-kilometer course in 28:57, the 18th fastest time in school history. Zack Warmack (Idaho Springs, CO), Sean Smith (Evergreen, CO), and Brandon Johnson (Phoenix, AZ) all ran their top time of the season and finished within a minute of each other. Warmack ran a 30:24 (61st place), Smith, who broke 31 minutes for the first time and bested his previous top time by 30 seconds, ran a 30:36 (62nd place), and Johnson completed the course in 31:21 (68th place).      The Foresters will take this weekend off as they prepare for the Midwest Conference Championship Meet, hosted by Monmouth, on November 6th. At last season's MWC Championship Meet, the men took ninth while the women were seventh.     Complete Meet Results -- Men, Women