Men's Results
Women's Results
PSAC XC Central
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Mansfield men improve to 10th at PSAC Cross Country Championship – Injury-depleted women's team limps to 14th place finish
SLIPPERY ROCK –
Will Mullen finished 36
th overall to lead the Mansfield University men's cross country team to a 10
th place finish at the PSAC Cross Country Championship meet in Slippery Rock Saturday morning.
Mullen, a junior from Waverly, NY, finished the 8K course with a time of 26:57.4 ahead of teammate
Jesse Jones who was ten places back with a time f 27:13.4. Senior
Alex Beard was the Mountaineers third-best finisher with a time of 27:21.0 good for 50
th place.
Jake Shedden placed 62
nd overall with a time of 27;57.5 while Jordan Booth was n 76
th palace with
Eric Scherer (29:38.8) and
Jake Portock (30:26) placing 81
st and 84
th respectively.
Mansfield finished the 13-team event with 270 points. Edinboro won the championship with 34 points.
It was a huge improvement for the men's team which finished 13th at last year's championship.
On the women's side, a Mansfield team that had been nationally and regional ranked early in the season, continued to suffer from the injury-bug which has plagued the team for much of the season. Competing without top runners Jess and
Kristy Scordino along with
Susan Learn, Mansfield was able to field just five runners led by junior
Savannah Boucher who finished 51
st overall with a time of 24:19 over the 6K course.
Kait Chewidden was MU's second-best runner coming in 75
th with a time of 25:29.9.
Amy Lee was 8
th (26:24.4) with Kristen Von Beveren 92
nd (26:33.6) and Rachel Tylock 102
nd (28:14.6).
Shippensburg captured the women's title with 62 team points. Mansfield had 409 points.
The North Atlantic Regional Championship is set in two weeks at Lock Haven.
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