Sarah Donovan
Freshman Sarah Donovan finished 69h in the women's race to lead the Warriors at the MAC Championships on Saturday.

Men's Cross Country

Donovan leads Warriors at MAC Championships

Men's Results | Women's Results

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Freshman Sarah Donovan (Bergen, N.Y./Byron-Bergen) led the Lycoming College women's cross country team to a 12th-place finish at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships on Saturday, Nov. 2, on the campus of DeSales University. The men's cross country team finished 13th.
 
Donovan finished in 69th place, posting a time of 27:32.89 on the 6K course, to lead the Warriors in the field of 150 runners. Elizabethtown took the team championship, as the Blue Jays had four runners finish in the top 10, and Lebanon Valley's Kelsey Patrick won the individual title.
 
Sophomore Lindsay Decker (Shapleigh, Maine/Massabesic) posted a time of 27:59.92, junior Kelsey Rawson (Waldorf, Md./North Point) notched a 28:07.64, sophomore Anna Summers (Paxinos, Pa./Shamokin Area) came across in 28:41.67 and freshman Victoria Wilson (Ringwood, N.J./Lakeland) rounded out the top five with a time of 28:42.43.
 
Sophomore Rachel Salmon (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) posted a time of 28:50.54, posting a career-best time at MACs. Senior Meredith Ellmore (Lothian, Md./Southern) crossed in 31:50.36, freshman Jacqueline Croteau (Islip, N.Y./Islip) in 32:15.59 and senior Carmen Niemeyer (Brookings, S.D./Brookings) rounded out the women's entries in 33:25.39.
 
On the men's side, the Warriors were led by a 102nd-place finish by freshman Jacob Miller (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central), as he posted a time of 31:33.98, to help the Warriors improve two slots over a 15th-place finish in 2012.
 
Widener picked up the team title, as individual champion Chris Garrity was one of three members of the Pride to finish in the top six on the 8K course.
 
Freshman Bryant Dietrick (Muncy, Pa./Muncy Area) posted a solid 32:43.23 to take 117th, junior Alex Bottorff (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) finished 120th with a time of 33:03.48, sophomore Peter Rittenhouse (Green Lane, Pa./Quakertown Community) posted a time of 33:05.10 to take 122nd and junior William Dietz (Mansfield, Pa./Mansfield Area) added a time of 33:05.24 to take 123rd to round out the top five.
 
Freshman John Woodburn (Fredericksburg, Va./Riverbend) crossed in 34:22.10, sophomore Jacob McClain (Cogan Station, Pa./Jersey Shore Area) posted a time of 35:16.47 and freshman Donald Keys (Erie, Pa./Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy) finished in a career-best 35:17.89. Rounding out the lineup, sophomore Isaac Pawling (Columbia, Pa./Manheim Cental) finished in 40:01.15 and junior Colton Dershem (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) notched a time of 40:17.18.
 
The Warriors will wrap up their 2013 campaign in two weeks when they run at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regionals at Lehigh University. The men's race will start at 11 a.m. before the women race at 12 p.m.


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