NEWVILLE, Pa. – The Wilkes University men's cross country team finished 37^th out of 51 teams at the 2017 NCAA Mideast Regional hosted by Dickinson College at Big Spring High School Saturday morning.

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There were 365 total participants in the 8k event where the Colonels scored 1,094 team points.

Sophomore Franco Balbuena (Wilkes-Barre, PA/Coughlin) now holds eight of the top nine times in school history after he finished in 27:33.5 for the sixth best time. He placed 126^th overall for the event.

Freshman Noah Molina (Scranton, PA/West Scranton) ran a personal-best 28:02.3 to finish 163^rd which was the 11^th fastest time in the school record book. Sophomore Kevin Singhel (Athens, PA/Athens Area) ran a season-best 29:58.6 to finish 270^th. Freshman Kevin Long (Goshen, NY/Goshen) (274^th, 30:07.5) and sophomore Alan Sebastianelli (Archbald, PA/Valley View) (284^th, 30:17.3) rounded out the scorers for Wilkes.

Sophomore Ryan Weber (West Haven, CT/West Haven) (287^th, 30:22.1) and senior Kendrick Schell (Northampton, PA/Northampton) (301^st, 31:12.5) were the remaining Wilkes participants.