SARATOGA, SPRINGS, 10/25/08 - Back on the trails after taking a
week off, the Keene State women's cross country team raced to
a fourth place finish at the Saratoga Invitational on
Saturday.
Nursing several injuries, the KSC women finished with 145
points. St. Lawrence won the women's championship with 65 points in
the 24-team field.
A
pair of freshmen led the KSC women. Heather Piece (Buckland,
Mass.) was 16th (18:36) and Andrea Walsh (Bolton, Conn.) was 18th
(18:42) on the 3.1 mile course.
Junior Rita Marcotte (Heath, Mass.), the Owls' top runner so far
this season, tweaked her knee, and dropped back to 20th
(18:46). Junior Kate Carr (Scituate, Mass.) was 44th
(19:15), and freshman Natalie Ferro (Dennis, Mass.) was the Owls'
fifth runner, placing 52nd with a time of 19:22.
Paige Mills (Keene, N.H.) and Nicole Slane (Milford, N.H.) didn't
compete and Amy Knoblock (Plymouth, Mass.) dropped out of the race.
Wendy Pavlus of St. Lawrence won the race with a time of 17:28.
The Keene State men won the Inviational for the second year in a
row
The Owl men, who entered the race ranked 28th in this week's
national poll, tallied 62 points. St. Lawrence was second
with 70 points. KSC should move up in the ranking after
defeating St. Lawrence and Trinity, which were 21st and 17th
respectively in the poll.
Sophomore Craig MacPherson (Derry, N.H.) paced the Owls with a
sixth place finish (25:46) on the 5K course. Teammate,
Brandon Schillemat (Nelson, N.H.), a sophomore, was right behind
him in seventh place with a time of 25:47. Sophomore Jeff
Trethewey (Merrimack, N.H.) (9th/25:50), senior Jason Garrity
(Topsfield, Mass.) (19th/26:02), and junior Patrick Davis
(Wethersfield, Conn.) (21st/26:08) round out the top scorers for
KSC.
Hamilton's Peter Kosgei won the race with a time of 25:05.
Keene
State competes next week at the LEC Championships at Westfield
State. The KSC women have won the race the past eight years.
