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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- September 9, 2006
CONTACT: Glyn Turner 585,567,9648

         Cross-Country Record's Seven More Personnal Best's At 

                                         Oswego State

Meet Overview: 

Oswego, N.Y.-The Houghton Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams continued their seasons on Saturday in the Pat Peterson Invitational at Oswego State. Another stormy day promised to again challenge the athletes in the day’s contest, with both races running on a one hour storm delay. Both the men’s and women’s races featured a slew of nationally ranked teams including last years Women’s NCAA Division III National Champions Geneseo University, Ithaca is third nationally, St. Lawrence is 26th nationally, and Cortland is 32nd and on the Men’s side Geneseo is ranked 21st and Cortland is 33^rd in the latest NCAA III poll.

The women’s race went off first with; the Houghton Women were the first out on the rain soaked course. The women were lead by 5^th year senior Mary Gibson, (Grosse Pointe, MI) in 19:16 (PR) for 11^th place, followed by first year runner Kaity Fadden (Highland Park, NY) in 19:53 (PR)  for a 23^rd place finish.  Both women ran excellent races given the conditions, improving on last weeks performances and setting PR’s.  These women were followed by Junior Irene Vickner (Brockport, NY) finishing in 20:56 followed by the main pack of Houghton Women lead by Sophomore Rachel Rhodes (Salamanca, NY) in 21:39, Lydia Throneblade (Castelton, VT) in 22:09 and freshmen Lindsey Privitera (Binghamton, NY) turned a great performance in 22:19. In her first collegiate race Junior Heather Hutton (Canada) had a great result in 23:39.  

The women’s team finished the race in 6^th place out of 12 complete teams, and showed good improvement from last weeks opening meet.  A really great finish given the four highly ranked women’s teams in the race including two top three teams in the country. 

The Men’s race also featured numerous top ranked teams, and the Houghton Men did not disappoint in their performance.  The men had eight PR’s (personal records) in the meet and that is amazing considering the conditions and the fact that all but one male had a PR today.   The men followed the lasts weeks’ example and practiced their “pack-running” techniques and ran the first two miles of the race as one unit.   The men were lead by Sophomore Chad Stauring (Arkport, NY) in time of 26:41 (PR), he was followed by Senior captain Ryan Fadden (Highland Park, NY) who finished in 27:05 (a PR) both men finished in the top 40 finishers.   The next pack of Houghton harriers was not far behind led by Junior Mike Platt (Wayne, NJ) in 27:18 (PR)  he was followed by Sophomore Jacob Connor (Orchard Park, NY), in 27:32 (PR) freshmen Landry Jarvis (Canada) had an excellent race with one minute PR and rounding out Houghton’s scoring with a time of 27:42.

Sophomore Dan Ballard (Syracuse, NY) had a difficult finish after running with the lead pack until the 4 mile mark to finish in 27:56. Dan was followed by second year runner Aaron Williams, (Fulton, NY) who finished in 28:20 for a PR as well.  Junior Joe Campagna followed Williams across the line in 28:34. Senior Ryan Spear Finished next in 29:09. 

The Men’s team followed the women’s lead in finishing 6^th out of 12 teams an also showed vast improvement from last year’s season opener.  The men’s looks to have a bright future this season and will be exciting to watch as the develop. Considering the depth of talent in the men’s race and the close score many positives can be seen the days results. 

Coaches Corner:            

Assistant Coach Matt Dougherty:  

“Both teams had really good performances, especially given the conditions of the meet for the second meet in a row. Both teams showed glimpses of what the can accomplish, what they need to do right now is focus on the training and team tactics.”  

“The pieces of the puzzle are all their we just need to keep training hard, stay healthy and keep focused throughout the season.”  

Meet Results:  

Women’s 

 Team Results Women

            Team                Points

1. Geneseo                      15   (2005 NCAA Division III National Champions)

2. Ithaca                         82    (#3  NCAA Division III National Ranking)

3. St. Lawrence                86  (#26  NCAA Division III National Ranking)

4. Cortland (SUNY)          108 (#32  NCAA Division III National Ranking)

5. Alfred University          143     

6. Houghton College      170

7. Buffalo State               200

8. LeMoyne College          208

9. William Smith               243

10. Daeman (NAIA)          284

11. Oswego State           339

12. Keuka College            365 

Men’s  

Team Results Men

            Team                Points

1. Geneseo                       20        (Ranked  21st NCAA Division III)

2. St. Lawrence                50        (Ranked 35^th NCAA Division III)        

3. Cortland Suny               117      (Ranked  33rd NCAA Division III)

4. Oswego State               139     

5. Ithaca College               146

6. Houghton College         177

7. Alfred University            215

8. Lemoyne                      239

9. Utica College                242

10. Buffalo State              274

11. Hobart                       281

12. Daemen (NAIA)           326

13. Keuka                        407