Lycoming News

Penn College's men's cross-country team achieved a 20th place finish out of 31 teams at the NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Championships, held on Saturday in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Mitchell Campbell led the team, finishing 90th among 211 runners with a time of 26:43 over the 8K course at Lock Haven University West Branch Course.

Other notable performances for Penn College included Alec Rees who placed 115th in 27:17, Matthew Woolcock who was 120th in 27:28, Holden Furey at 155th in 28:51, Jacob Parker at 159th in 28:56, Dillon Betts at 160th in 29:00, and Noah Bowers who finished in the position of 181st with a time of 29:46. The top five finishers contributed to the team's overall score.

The team's placement marked its highest achievement at an NCAA event, surpassing last year's record of finishing in the top twenty-five.

Carnegie Mellon emerged victorious in the men's field with a total of 19 points. They were followed by Johns Hopkins with a score of 66 and Marywood with an aggregate of 80 points. Matt Porter from Carnegie Mellon claimed first place individually with a winning time of 24:40.

On the women's side for Penn College, Elaina Brady led her teammates by finishing in the position of 163rd out of a field comprising of 204 runners on a separate course measuring six kilometers. She completed her run within a time frame of exactly twenty-six minutes and thirty seconds. Skyelar Splain finished next for Penn College women coming into position number one hundred eighty after completing her race within twenty-seven minutes and thirty-three seconds while Natalie Greiner took two hundredth place clocking thirty minutes fifty-one seconds during her run.

Johns Hopkins clinched victory among women’s teams scoring forty-two points across twenty-nine participating groups whilst Sara Stephenson from their contingent topped individual rankings clocking an impressive twenty-minute fifty-two-second completion period throughout this segment's competitive stretch.