Castleton Cross Country Recap

September 9, 2007

Castleton wins women’s 5K, finishes sexond in men’s 8K

Castleton, VT – The Castleton State College cross country team took home the top spot in the women’s 5K race and finished second in the men’s 8K race at the Castleton invitational. SUNY-Cobleskill ended up second in the women’s race and won the men’s race. The Spartans out-scored Cobleskill 35-39 on the women’s side, while Cobleskill scored 32 in the men’s to best Castleton’s 45 and Southern New Hampshire’s 46.

WOMEN: Just as SUNY-Cobleskill’s April Ackerman was putting the finishing touches on her 20:23 win in the women’s 5K race the skies opened up and soaked the Castleton course. The host Spartans would take second and third position, as Katie Snyder and Sage Small ran the course in 21:49 and 22:32 respectively. Castleton would finish with four runners in the top-10 as Lauren Cosgrove (sixth; 22:50) and Justine Campbell (ninth; 23:19) would help the Spartans edge the Tigers 35-39. Cobleskill’s Meghan Lapoint and Anastasia Yakaboski finished fifth and eighth respectively, but it wasn’t enough as Castleton’s fifth runner, Beth Pantzer ended up in 15th spot to seal the win.

Rounding out the top-10 were: Southern New Hampshire’s Svea Messner-Dellea (fourth; 22:40), Melissa Hurley (seventh; 23:02), and Margaret Shields (10th; 23:21).

MEN: Southern New Hampshire’s Alex Brown took home the top spot, breezing through the 8K in 29:21. Cobleskill took second, third and fifth place as Dan Bulson (29:33), Kevin Wipple (29:39) and Nick O’Neil (30:36) all finished in the top five. Southern New Hampshire’s Nicholas Watts (29:59) ended up fourth to round out the top five. Castleton took home sixth, seventh and eighth spots as Mike Campbell (30:56), Jeffrey Paul (31:02) and Nicholas Grasso (31:03) were the top Spartan finishers.

Southern New Hampshire’s Spencer Rennick was ninth and Cobleskill’s Richard Ganett 10th to round out the top-10.

 Castleton State College Team Results
                           Castleton INVY  09-Sep-07                           
                       Castleton State College [CAST]                          
 
  1  Women   5000m Run
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    Name                     Age Team                               Avg/Mile
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  2 Snyder, Katie             22 Castleton         21:49.27 F        7:01.41
  3 Small, Sage               18 Castleton         22:32.48 F        7:15.32
  6 Cosgrove, Lauren          19 Castleton         22:50.17 F        7:21.01
  9 Campbell, Justine V       22 Castleton         23:19.43 F        7:30.43
 15 Pantzer, Beth             21 Castleton         24:25.84 F        7:51.81
 16 Pulkinen, Dana            FR Castleton         24:31.65 F        7:53.68
 18 Connors, Shannon          19 Castleton         24:35.52 F        7:54.92
 21 Huchinson, Molly          20 Castleton         25:31.34 F        8:12.89
 25 Carter, Vanessa           21 Castleton         26:45.49 F        8:36.76
 26 Parker, Courtney          JR Castleton         27:59.32 F        9:00.52
 29 Bergeron, Amber           18 Castleton         28:32.45 F        9:11.18
 36 Gillett, Janet            20 Castleton         30:15.07 F        9:44.21
 
  2  Men   8000m Run
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    Name                     Age Team                               Avg/Mile
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  6 Campbell, Mike            18 Castleton         30:56.03 F        6:13.37
  7 Paul, Jeffrey W           20 Castleton         31:02.57 F        6:14.69
  8 Grasso, Nicholas J        19 Castleton         31:03.25 F        6:14.83
 11 Burrows, Dave             42 Castleton         31:25.08 F        6:19.22
 14 LaPointe, Chris           22 Castleton         32:29.99 F        6:32.28
 19 Hicks, Andrew             FR Castleton         32:49.39 F        6:36.18
 31 Sharpiro, Sam             18 Castleton         35:49.87 F        7:12.49
 33 Marquez, Andrew              Castleton         36:42.52 F        7:23.08

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