September 10, 2006

Women's cross country wins Castleton Invitational, men finish second

Castleton, VT -In Castleton's only regular season home meet the Spartans looked impressive, winning the women's meet with seven runners finishing in the top 11. On the men's side the team finished second to Southern New Hampshire University, a mere 8 points behind.

MEN: Southern New Hampshire University won the men's 8K race with a team score of 44. The team boasted four runners in the top 11, led by Fred Wills at 28:34 and Alex Brown at 29:28. the two finished second and third respectively. Castleton finished second with a team score of 52, led by fourth place finisher Michael Sullivan (Granby, CT/Granby Memorial) with a time of 29:31. Rounding out the men's meet was third place Johnson State College (60), Green Mountain College (61) and Southern Vermont College (136).

WOMEN: Castleton dominated the women's race taking the 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9 positions to score a team total of 21. The Spartans also had the 10th and 11th place finishers to displace. Winning her first career race was Elizabeth Halnon (Blackstone, MA/Blackstone-Millville) with a time of 23:11. Right on Halnon's heels was teammate Katie Sprowl (Rochester, NH/Dover) with a second place time of 23:18.

The teams will travel to Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, NY for the NYU Invitational on Saturday, September 16 beginning at 10:00 AM.

Castleton Team Results

Women

23:11.57 Halnon, Elizabeth 1 23:18.58 Sprowl, Katherine A 2 23:25.91 Campbell, Justine V 4 23:29.98 Klein, Maggie L 5 24:44.90 Perron, Janet 11 25:26.83 Pantzer, Beth 13 26:30.15 Gribaudo, Liz 15 27:26.91 McKenna, Katie 17 28:28.58 Airoldi, Ashley L 21 28:34.81 Singer, Katelyn B 22 30:32.99 Gillett, Janet 26 31:01.36 Coons, Carolyn 27 34:50.49 Plouffe, Danielle 35 34:50.87 Snyder, Katie 36

Men

29:31.79 Sullivan, Michael 5 30:20.13 Paul, Jeffrey W 8 30:54.82 Grasso, Nicholas J 10 32:04.59 Arthur, Trevor T 15 32:46.12 Burrows, Dave 19 34:13.83 Mack, Christopher I 24 35:46.25 Wissler, Joey 28 36:07.38 Park, Eric 31 40:13.23 Renfro, Paul 34

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