CARLISLE, Pa. – The Wilkes University men's cross country team finished 13^th out of 22 teams at the Dickinson Long-Short Invitational with 151 points on Saturday morning.

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Franco Balbuena (Wilkes-Barre, PA/Coughlin) led the way for the Colonels, finishing 33^rd overall with a time of 27:26.0, the fourth best 8k time in program history. Balbuena now holds the top five times and eight of the top-10.

Noah Molina (Scranton, PA/West Scranton) (78^th, 28:57.9), Kevin Long (Goshen, NY/Goshen) (29:29.7), Kevin Singhel (Athens, PA/Athens Area) (99^th, 30:14.7), and Ryan Weber (West Haven, CT/West Haven) (30:45.8) rounded out the scorers for Wilkes.

The Colonels also had a handful of runners finish the 4k race, with Blade Tirado (Closter, NJ/North Valley ) (42^nd, 13:27.6), Alan Sebastianelli (Archbald, PA/Valley View) (77^th, 14:13.5), Kendrick Schell (Northampton, PA/Northampton) (86^th, 14:22.2), Killian Sloan (Bridgeton, NJ/Cumberland Regional) (96^th, 14:43.3), Jason Montemuro (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe) (100^th, 14:48.2), and Colin Ahrensfield (Ashland, PA/North Schuylkill) (114^th, 15:37.6) finishing for Wilkes.

The Colonels return to action on Saturday when they head to Center Valley, Pa. for the DeSales Invitational starting at 11:15 a.m.