PERU – This season has not gone how Brittany Schwarz imagined her senior cross country campaign going, but Saturday she took several steps in the right direction.

Schwarz has been a standout for Dixon since she was a freshman, but this year was not going her way. Saturday, though, Schwarz ran a season-best time and took seventh place at the Northern Illinois Big 12 meet at Baker Lake.

"That was a season PR on a hard course," said Schwarz, who had a time of 18 minutes, 35 seconds. "I was having some trouble early in the year. Now, I think I'm back.