CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – With a school-record tying performance, freshman Quincy Amabile (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg Area) led the Lycoming College cross country team with a 45^th-place finish at the DeSales Cross Country Invitational, as he posted a 27:06 on the 8K course on a cool Saturday, Oct. 7.
 
Amabile tied the school record of 27:06 set by Greg Seymour in a dual meet with King's in 1994 and edged out the mark of 27:14.5 set by Scott Condello at the 1999 MAC Championships. Amabile is just the sixth runner in program history to post an 8K time of less than 28:00.
 
On the women's side, freshman Kaylee Long (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) also posted a performance for the record books, coming up just 1.2 seconds shy of the school record of 24:14.8 set by Michelle Herman at the 2009 NCAA Regional. Long finished 54^th in a field of 255 and helped the varsity women finish in 17^th place in a field of 35 and she is the third runner in program history to post a time of less than 25:00 in a 6K race.
 
Sophomore Rachel Fritz (Honesdale, Pa./Honesdale) followed Long with a career-best 26:10 to take 119^th, senior Sarah Donovan (Bergen, N.Y./Byron-Bergen) finished in 26:21 to take 125^th in her best career run at the DeSales course, and senior Victoria Wilson (Ringwood, N.J./Lakeland) added a career-best 26:26 to take 133^rd. Rounding out the scoring five, freshman Amanda Goulden (Wharton, N.J./Morris Hills) added a career-best 28:00 to take 174^th. Senior Abigail O'Connor (Mt. Holly Springs, Pa./Home-schooled) finished in 31:46 in the varsity race.
 
Senior Jacob Miller (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) finished second for the men's team, which took 21^st in a field of 38 teams, as he notched his first time of better than 30 minutes this year, taking 140^th in a field of 255 runners in 29:58.
 
Junior Joseph Ingrum (Lodi, Calif./Lodi) finished 169^th in 31:09, sophomore Andrew Dion (Tiverton, R.I./Tiverton) took 192^nd in 32:50 and senior Donald Keys (Erie, Pa./Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy) took 199^th in 33:06 to round out the top five. Senior John Woodburn (Fredericksburg, Va./Riverbend) (36:17) and junior Sean Hastings (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy) (36:44) also factored into the team scoring for the Warriors.
 
In the junior varsity race, junior Lindsay Smith (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) (28:06), senior Jacqueline Croteau (Islip, N.Y./Islip) (30:14) and junior Kaitlin Fair (Manheim, Pa./Manheim Central) (31:22) posted solid performances for the women. On the men's side, freshman James Wait (Cherry Valley, N.Y./Cherry Valley) posted a career-best time of 33:00.
 
The Warriors get back in action on Saturday, Oct. 15, when they head to the Gettysburg Invitational. The men's race starts at 10:30 a.m. and the women will start at 11:30 a.m.