STEVENSON, MD – The Wilkes University men's cross country team placed fifth of 11 teams Saturday at the Shannon Henretty Invitational hosted by Stevenson University.

A field of 122 runners competed with Johns Hopkins taking the team title. The Colonels scored 175 points as they competed at the 8k distance for the first time this season.

Phillip Castrine (Germansville, PA/Northwestern Lehigh) was the top Wilkes finisher in 49^th place with a time of 29:30.76. The rest of the scorers for the Colonels were John Zick (Middletown, NY/John S. Burke) (59^th, 30:27.23), Noah Molina (Scranton, PA/West Scranton) (60^th, 30:29.47), Kevin Singhel (Athens, PA/Athens Area) (67^th, 31:14.63) and Kevin Long (Goshen, NY/Goshen) (71^st, 31:48.86).

Also finishing for Wilkes were Dylan Corriere (Easton, PA/Wilson Area) (72^nd, 31:51.74), Alan Sebastianelli (Archbald, PA/Valley View) (77^th, 32:18.45), Brandon Whitman (Mountain Top, PA/Crestwood) (89^th, 33:27.47), Jason Montemuro (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe) (93^rd, 33:44.97), Kaleb Hanson Richart (Wilkes-Barre, PA/Meyers) (102^nd, 35:10.72), Patrick Connors (Hanover Twp., PA/Hanover) (105^th, 35:23.20) and Colin Ahrensfield (Ashland, PA/North Schuylkill) (109^th, 36:23.43).

The Colonels return to the course next Saturday when they compete at the Cougar Classic in Dallas, Pa. at 10:00 a.m.