Sunday, October 18, 2009

Solid day at Albany

Our women's team placed 2nd at the UAlbany meet on Saturday and the men won for the second consecutive year. The weather turned out better than we could have hoped. It was cold, but sunny/partly cloudy and dry. A far cry from what a few of us experienced at Penn State the day before!

Click here for complete results.

On the women's side, we had a tight pack behind our lead runner, Addie DiFrancesco. In addition, we had seven women under 19:00 and 15 women under 20:00. All noteworthy.

On the men's side, we patchworked some varsity guys who were going to run at Penn State along with the guys who were scheduled to run at UAlbany. Conor Shelley had a strong PR up front, Will Griffin ran a strong race. Freshman Quimes DelaCruz continued to impress with his 25:20. Sam McMullen dipped under 26:00 for the first time.

Way down on the list, but no less impressive, Brendan Green lopped two (2!) minutes off his previous 8km PR and broke 30:00 for the first time. In fact, he broke 29 en route!!! (28:51.2).

There were many more highlights and I'll try to get more details in the coming days.

This was a good meet as we head into our championship season.

Women's results

6. Addie DiFrancesco - 17:56.9 - 2nd fastest time in school history for 5k XC
17. Kathryn Sheehan - 18:21.0
23. Brittany Burns - 18:25.0
29. Katie Messina - 18:35.8
34. Erin O'Reilly - 18:41.7
46. Julie Hudak - 18:50.5
47. Jackie Gamboli - 18:50.9
77. Jillian Corley - 19:17.3
82. Sarah Keating - 19:21.6

Women's Gold Race Results
Laura Lindsley - 19:22.6
Sarah Parsloe - 19:38.1
Dayna McLaughlin - 19:44.8
Kara Lightowler - 19:48.5
Allyson O'Brien - 19:49.8
Briana Crowe - 19:56.5
Rebecca Denise - 20:12.6
Kelley Hanifin - 20:32.2
Colleen Smith - 20:44.8
Lauren Pica - 20:54.0
Katie Topalian - 20:56.9
Kelley Gould - 21:03.9
Shannon Farrell - 21:09.6
Rachel Lichtenwalner - 21:25.6
Dana Boscarino - 21:29.3
Rachel Bremer - 21:39.3
Elizabeth O'Brien - 21:47.2
Meaghan Lass - 22:32.4
Erin Quadros - 23:11.2
Daria Kowalik - 23:39.3

Men's results

2. Conor Shelley 24:39.8
4. Will Griffin 24:53
9. Quimes DelaCruz 25:20.3
14. Tim Keegan 25:27.8
18. Nick Webster 25:36.4
41. Sam McMullen 25:54.2
60. Tom Lipari 26:08.1
82. Matt Janczyk 26:24.6
122. Zak Smetana 27:04.3


Men's Purple Race Results


2. Sean Nestor 26:14.0
4. Mike Nicoletti 26:27.1
6. Pat Duggan 26:31.3
8. Brian Townsend 26:49.7
9. Matt Panebianco 26:50.8
11. Billy Posch 26:55.6
13. Colin Johnson 26:57.2
14. Mike Keegan 27:01.2
19. Ryan Brown 27:11.3
29. Ryan Fitzsimons 27:23.0
34. Joel Moss 27:38.7
61. Will Schanz 28:21.5
63. Greg Masto 28:24.7
72. Brendan Green 28:51.2
101. Luke Shane 30:38.7

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