NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Stephanie
Williams (sr. Harrisburg/Riverside) led the Kutztown University
women’s cross country team to a seventh-place finish at the Iona
Meet of Champions Saturday. The men finished 13th out of 19 teams.
Williams finished 15th overall in the 6K race
with a time of 22:42, as the women defeated numerous Division I
teams. The Golden Bears’ 210 points were 15 shy of
Division I Harvard’s 195.
“They ran really, really well,” KU head coach
Ray Hoffman said. “This is a pretty big meet on the Division
I level.”
Joanna Horstmann (jr.
Downingtown/Downingtown West) finished 29th for KU with a time
of 23:25, while Kristen Cupido (fr. Bridgewater,
N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan Reg.), Maureen Watson (so.
Walnutport/Allentown Central Catholic) and Hailey Dell (jr. Saranac
Lake, N.Y./Saranac Lake) rounded out the Golden Bears top five.
Cupido (24:08) finished 49th, Watson (24:16) 52nd and Dell (24:38)
65th.
Jolene Collins (so. Annville/Palmyra)
finished 68th with a time of 24:40 and Keri Brown (fr.
Southampton, N.J./Seneca) was 92nd at 25:52.
Tom Mooney (fr. Churchville/Council Rock
South) led the men with a 66th-place finish in the 8K race at
27:36.
Pat Bone (sr. Doylestown/Central Bucks East)
finished in 73rd at 27:46 and Ben Loht (so. Lewistown/Indian
Valley) was three seconds behind him in 76th.
Kevin Rodgers (fr. Clifton Heights/Upper
Darby) finished 91st with a time of 28:27 and in 93rd place,
five seconds behind Rodgers, was Pat McKeever (sr. Midland
Park/Midland Park).
Tim Ballingall (fr. Downingtown/Downingtown
East) and Matt Cocciardi (fr. York/York Suburban) rounded
out the KU’s top seven with times of 28:43 and 29:53, respectively.
Ballingall finished 98th and Cocciardi 110th.
The men’s 13th-place finish was better than
West Virginia-Wesleyan, which is ranked No. 9 in the East Region,
one behind KU.
The KU cross country teams will be back on the
course at the Paul Short Invitational, at Lehigh, at 1 p.m. Friday.
