Swarthmore Runs Second, Fifth at Long/Short



COMPLETE MEN'S RESULTS
COMPLETE WOMEN'S RESULTS

CARLISLE, Pa. - The Swarthmore women's cross country, led by Nyika Corbett '10 and Emma Stanley '09, finished second as a team while the men's side came in fifth place at the Long/Short Course Invitational hosted by Dickinson College Saturday morning.

The Garnet women totaled 13 points to finish second out of 14 teams in the 4K event - just behind champion Dickinson (12 points); it is the best finish for Swarthmore at the event (2002 - 27 points).  Dickinson's Caitlin Bradley won the individual title with a time of 14:14.  Corbett was the second runner to cross the line, finishing in a time of 14:59, and was followed in by Stanley in fourth position (15:15).  Swarthmore freshman Erin Ronhovde made it into the top-10 (seventh - 15:31) while sophomores Kathy Feeney (19th - 16:01) and Faith Pampel (20th - 16:05) sailed into the top-20.

Senior Vernon Chaplin paced the Garnet men to a team-total of 45 points, finishing fifth behind champion Shippensburg (17 points), Carnegie Mellon (20 points), Elizabethtown (27 points), and Haverford (30 points).  Chaplin finished eighth out of 151 runners with a time of 12:37.51 in the 4K run.  Junior Ross Weller was the next Swarthmore runner to finish, completing the course in 18th position (12:49.60), while classmate Jon Shoop was 22nd (12:54.80) and sophomore Erik Saka finished 31st (13:03.65).

The Garnet women will run in the Seven Sisters Championship on Sat., Oct. 14 hosted by Bryn Mawr at Rose Tree Park.  The Swarthmore men head to Center Valley, Pa. on the same day to compete in the DeSales University Invitational.

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