The field for the Nov. 23 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., were announced on Sunday. It consisted of 31 teams and 38 individual qualifiers for both the men and women.

However, Cal fell short of qualifying after each team finished eighth on a chilly and muddy Springfield Golf Course.

Portland, Washington, Oregon, Arizona State and Stanford earned trips to nationals from the West Region on the men’s side. The latter four squads, along with Arizona, made it on the women’s side.

The Cal women could have helped their chances on Saturday by topping the Wildcats, which they had already done at the Pac-10 Championships, but the Bears finished three spots behind Arizona while racing without redshirt freshman Ellie Keene. Keene was the team’s second place finisher at Pac-10s, but suffered a foot injury at the conference meet.

“Arizona was on their game today and … we weren’t,” senior Alison Greggor said. “If we had finished fifth or sixth, (a berth) was very likely. It didn’t go exactly as planned.”

“It was a tough meet for us,” coach Tony Sandoval said after the meet. “We had a couple of tough breaks.”

Indeed, Cal’s top two runners — sophomore Deborah Maier and Steve Sodaro — both missed out on individual berths to the NCAA championships by just one spot, despite having career-best regional finishes and earning all-region team honors.

Sodaro placed 16th, one behind Cal Poly’s Joe Gatel, while Maier (14th) finished behind UCLA’s Shannon Murakami.