Sept. 18, 2010
Men's Results 
| Women's Results
PHILADELPHIA - With all seven scorers placing in the top 40, the La Salle men's cross country team captured the meet crown at the Br. John "Paddy" Doyle/Iona College Meet of Champions at New York's Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday morning. The women placed third as a team, behind top 10 finishes by Meghan Lutz and Stephanie Bearish.
Alfredo Santana (Philadelphia, PA/Nueva Esperanza) led the men with a 14th place overall finish out of 207 runners by running a 25:35.17 on the 8K course. Sean Ward (Coatesville, PA/Coatesville Area) came in immediately after with a 25:35.73 for 15th place. Tom Pannulla (Coatesville, PA/Coatesville Area) was the third Explorer, also posting a top 20 finish with a time of 25:47.25 for 19th.
Nick Crits (Ambler, PA/Wissahickon) and Dave Hausherr (Townsend, MA/North Middlesex) also turned in top 25 finishes, with Crits crossing the finish line in 25:54.68 for 22nd and Hausherr running a 25:56.46 for 23rd. Two rookies finished among the Explorers' top seven as Luke Arbuckle (Elkton, MD/Elkton High) placed 30th with a mark of 26:04.22 and Nico Greco (Hartford, CT/North West Catholic) was the seventh Explorer and 37th overall with a 26:09.89.
Joe Beveridge (44th; 26:13.64), Nick Ross (77th; 26:38.51), Vince Perozze (84th; 26:43.82) and Alex Brazinski (86th; 26:44.52) also ran for the Explorers, all finishing in the top half.
The Explorers, ranked 15th in the Mid-Atlantic region in the latest USTFCCCA poll, scored 93 points as team to finish with the meet crown. They topped Mid-Atlantic No. 12 Penn, which finished with 108 points. No. 13 Albany (Northeast region) rounded out the top three teams with 140 points. Brown (NE #15) and Harvard (NE #9) were fourth and fifth, respectively. Also in the field were several other ranked squads, including national No. 10/Northeast No. 2 Iona, Columbia (NE #4) and Kentucky (SE #11).
Lutz (Langhorne, PA/Nazareth Academy) and Bearish (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh) led the Explorer women to third place via top six individual finishes. Lutz finished fifth overall out of 164 runners with a 6K time of 22:11.13 and Bearish crossed the finish line sixth with a time of 22:17.06.
Three more Explorers also posted top 20 times. Samantha Gallagher (Springfield, PA/Springfield) ran a 22:34.45 for 15th and rookies Michelle Capozzi (Red Bank, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) and Anne Areias (Southampton, PA/William Tennent) finished 19th and 20th, with times of 22:39.17 and 22:42.34, respectively.
Caitlin Storbeck (Eagleville, PA/Archbishop Carroll) also finished in the top 25, clocking a 22:48.76 for 23rd place. Wendy Hutchinson (Dover, PA/Dover) rounded out the top seven Explorers with a 23:11.73 for 35th. Caroline Grant (Springfield, PA/Cardinal O'Hara) also ran, finishing in 23:53.14 for 67th.
The Explorers, ranked ninth in the Mid-Atlantic region, finished with 65 points for third place as a team and just three points off of Kentucky's (SE #6) winning score of 62. Brown (NE #9) was second with 64 points. Penn (MA #7) and Columbia (NE #6) rounded out the top five teams. Also in the field were Lehigh (MA #12), Iona (NE #5) and Cincinnati (Great Lakes #14), which all finished in the top 10 of the team standings.
Monmouth Invitational:
Men's Results - Monmouth | Women's Results - Monmouth
Several Explorer runners also competed at the Monmouth Invitational at Holmdel Park in Holmdel, NJ, on Saturday morning. The men's 'B' squad finished third out of four Division I teams in the open meet, and the women also finished third out of four D-I teams.
Kasey Gellar led the men with a seventh place individual finish in the five-mile race. Gellar clocked a 26:53.5. Also in the top 20 were Rob Ricketts (16th; 27:25.0), Andrew Mahoney (18th; 27:28.8) and Matt Finn (20th; 27:30.3).
Beth Walker and Alyssa Mullen led the Explorer women with 23rd and 24th place finishes individually. Walker ran a 20:18.1 in the 5K race with Mullen a half-second behind in 20:18.6. Jessica DiVenere finished 32nd with a time of 20:33.4. Rounding out the top five Explorer finishers were Colleen Boland (37th; 20:54.6) and Karen Wojciechowski (38th; 20:55.4).
