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Two Wilkes men runners set top 10 school times at the Gettysburg Invitational Saturday

WILKES CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS COMPETE AT GETTYSBURG INVITATIONAL AS TWO MEN SET TOP 10 SCHOOL TIMES

10/18/2014 3:38:00 PM

(Men's Results / Women's Results)

WILKES CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS COMPETE AT GETTYSBURG INVITATIONAL AS TWO MEN SET TOP 10 SCHOOL TIMES

GETTYSBURG, PA – The Wilkes University cross country teams competed at the Gettysburg Invitatiuonal Saturday afternoon with the Colonel men finishing 27^th of 34 teams while the Lady Colonels claimed 29^th of 35 squads.

Two Colonel men broke into the top ten school times list while setting personal-best times at the 8k race. Tyler Sutton (Wyalusing, PA/Wyalusing Valley) finished at 28:40 for 129^th place setting the third fastest time in school history. Jordan Lindley (Hunlock Creek, PA/Lake Lehman) followed Sutton crossing the line at 29:03 for 150^th place while claiming the eighth-best time in school history.

Martin Tolbert (York, PA/William Penn) finished at 29:40 for 194^th place while Forest Hawkins (Ashley, PA/Hanover) (29:55), Tyler Layton (Endicott, NY/Main Endwell) (30:30) and Brian McKenna (Hillsdale, NJ/Pascack Valley) (30:33) all set personal-best times in the race for Wilkes. Nicholas Benzeleski (Olyphant, PA/Mid Valley) rounded out the Colonel runners finishing at 33:43.

Regan Murphy (Plainfield, PA/Pen Argyl) led the Wilkes women with a time of 26:13 for 138^th place. Tracey Hilker (Hummelstown, PA/Lower Dauphin) followed at 27:15 for 194^th place while Alexis Nicholson (Allentown, PA/Allentown Central Catholic) crossed the line at 28:15 for 254^th place. Moriah Teed (Newark Valley, NY/Newark Valley) (28:27), Christine Klingel (Kunkletown, PA/Pleasant Valley) (28:31), Carmen Hillman (Urbana, OH/Graham School) (30:29), Michelle Brenneman (Schuylkill Haven, PA/Schuylkill Haven) (30:30), Stacey Kandrac (31:13), Christie O'Brien (Goshen, NY/Goshen) (32:04), Kayla Creedon (Honesdale, PA/Riverside) (32:28), Kaitlyn Sitch (Weatherly, PA/MMI Prep) (33:32), Cheyenne Barnes (Kunkletown, PA/Pleasant Valley) (35:31), and Abbey Sauerwine (Slatington, PA/Northern Lehigh) (36:15) rounded out the Lady Colonel participants in the 6k race.

Wilkes remains idle until Saturday, November 1^st when both squads run in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championship race hosted by Lebanon Valley College at 10:00 a.m.

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