Freshman Jessica Lesser finished 26th to lead the USC women's cross country team to a fifth-place finish at the well-run Mustang Challenge hosted by the Master's College at Central Park in Santa Clarita, Calif. today (Sept. 20). Following an invocation and the anthem, the gun went off and nearly 170 runners took off on the circular course, up and down hills, with an announcer calling all of the action among the leaders.