GETTYSBURG, Pa. - The Wilkes University men's cross country team finished 18^th out of 25 teams at the Gettysburg Invitational on Saturday morning. The Colonels had six runners post career-best times and scored 488 points in the 8k event.

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Freshman Blade Tirado (Closter, NJ/North Valley ) led the Wilkes finishers in 88^th place with a time of 28:23.0. He was followed closely by freshman Noah Molina (Scranton, PA/West Scranton). He posted a career-best time of 28:29.0 to place 89^th.

Freshman Kevin Long (Goshen, NY/Goshen) (141^st, 29:35.3), sophomore Alan Sebastianelli (Archbald, PA/Valley View) (148^th, 29:46.2), and sophomore Ryan Weber (West Haven, CT/West Haven) (167^th, 30:11.3) rounded out the five runners to figure into the team score for the Colonels. Sebastianelli ran a career-best time and Weber set a season-best time.

Rounding out the Wilkes participants were sophomore Killian Sloan (Bridgeton, NJ/Cumberland Regional) (174^th, 30:24.1), senior Kendrick Schell (Northampton, PA/Northampton) (177^th, 30:37.2), sophomore Kevin Singhel (Athens, PA/Athens Area) (184^th, 30:56.2), sophomore Jason Montemuro (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe) (193^rd, 31:12.4), and freshman Colin Ahrensfield (Ashland, PA/North Schuylkill) (236^th, 34:05.3). Sloan, Schell, Montemuro, and Ahrensfield all ran career-best times.

The Colonels next run at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at Delaware Valley University on Saturday, October 28 at 11:15 a.m.