Penn Relays, Thursday night distance results: Three IC4A qualifiers in one race

It was a long but perfect night, weather-wise, for the distance races at Penn Relays. In the men's 10km, Will Griffin, Quimes DelaCruz and Joel Moss all qualified for the IC4A Championships. For Quimes and Joel, the times were personal-best marks. For Joel, it represented sweet vindication after his oh-so-close, less-than-a-second near miss at Penn last year. Nicely done, Big Man Moss! In the women's 5km, Katie Messina had a solid but so-so race in the Olympic Development section. The time was 9 seconds slower than her PR set at Colonial, but it should be noted that it is her second-fastest ever. Splits provided by team captain Matt Panebianco, who will be on the 4x800 relay on Saturday. If there are errors, let me know, as I was bleary-eyed in typing these ...

College men’s 10,000-meter run Championship

15-Will Griffin 30:17.35 *IC4A qualifier

69, 2:22 (73), 3:32 (70), 4:44 (72)

5:56 (72), 7:09 (73), 8:21 (72), 9:36 (75)

10:48 (72), 11:59 (71), 13:12 (73), 14:23 (71)

15:35 (72), 16:47 (72), 18:01 (74), 19:14 (73)

20:27 (73), 21:42 (75), 22:57 (75), 24:12 (75)

25:27 (75), 26:40 (73), 27:54 (74), 29:06 (72)

30:17.35 (71.35)

First 5km: 15:00; second 5km: 15:17.35

18-Arquimedes DelaCruz 30:30.01 *IC4A qualifier

69, 2:22 (73), 3:32 (70), 4:44 (72)

5:56 (72), 7:09 (73), 8:21 (72), 9:36 (75)

10:48 (72), 11:59 (71), 13:12 (73), 14:23 (71)

15:35 (72), 16:47 (72), 18:01 (74), 19:14 (73)

20:27 (73), 21:43 (76), 22:58 (75), 24:12 (74)

25:29 (77), 26:44 (75), 28:03 (79), 29:20 (77)

30:30.01 (70.01)

First 5km: 15:00; second 5km: 15:30.01

30-Joel Moss 31:04.35 *IC4A qualifier

72, 2:25 (73), 3:36 (71), 4:48 (72)

6:01 (73), 7:14 (73), 8:27 (73), 9:41 (74)

10:54 (73), 12:08 (74), 13:24 (76), 14:39 (75)

15:54 (75), 17:10 (76), 18:27 (77), 19:43 (76)

20:59 (76), 21:15 (76), 23:31 (76), 24:47 (76)

26:04 (77), 27:22 (77), 28:38 (77), 29:54 (76)

31:04.35 (70.35)

First 5km: 15:16; second 5km: 15:48.35

Olympic Development Women’s 5,000-meter run

26-Katie Messina 17:46.08

83, 2:46 (83), 4:13 (87), 5:36 (83)

7:02 (86), 8:28 (86), 9:54 (86), 11:21 (87)

12:48 (87), 14:15 (87), 15:40 (85), 17:06 (86)

17:46.08 (40.08)

Kilometer splits: 3:29, 3:33, 3:35, 3:38, 3:31