Cross Country

Aggies Compete At MAC Championships

CENTER VALLEY (PA) - The Delaware Valley College men's and women's cross country teams competed at the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championships held at DeSales University. The women placed 11th out of 14 teams while the men took 12th out of 14 squads.

In the women's competition, the Aggies placed ahead of King's College, Widener University and Lebanon Valley College. Messiah College won the title.

Individually, freshman Brittany Schwartz continued her standout season by placing 13th out of 132 competitors with a 6K race time of 26 minutes, 33.38 seconds. Sara Brown was 45th with a time of 28 minutes, 13.78 seconds while Talesha Karish was 80th with a time of 29 minutes, 51.60 seconds. Katie Lemoncelli (30:05.17) and Amanda Barr (34:12.72) rounded out the scoring by placing 80th and 114th respectively.

On the men's side, Delaware Valley placed ahead of Drew University and Lycoming College with Elizabethtown College taking top honors.

Freshman Chip Brumbaugh was the top Aggie finisher as his 8K race time of 30 minutes, 31.79 seconds was good enough for 57th place out of 140 runners. Kevin McCoy (31:07.65), James Hammond (31:09.79) and Kevin Weber (31:19.90) followed each other in 74th, 75th and 76th place while Dan Fenstermacher (33:41.33) ended the scoring by finishing 100th.