Runners from St. Lawrence University, Plattsburgh State,
and Ithaca College all stay close in the front pack of
the race at the St. Lawrence University Invitational.
(Sam Wangerin photo)
Runners from St. Lawrence, SUNY Plattsburgh and Clarkson
keep a steady pace across open field at S.L.U.'s 27th
annual Ronald Hoffman Invitational. The
20th-ranked St. Lawrence University women's cross
country team placed four runners in the top-five scoring
positions to easily win the 27th Annual Ronald C.
Hoffmann Invitational at St. Lawrence on Saturday
afternoon. Mary Terhune finished the 6K cross country
course in 23:03.29 seconds. She was 16.38 seconds behind
the individual winner, Jenna Van Vliet of Carleton
University. St. Lawrence totaled just 19 points to
easily win the six-team meet, with Clarkson second and
SUNY Plattsburgh was third. Norwich, coached by former
St. Lawrence cross country runner and assistant coach
Seth Jackson '12, finished fourth with 118 points.
(Zach Matthie photo)
Nov. 22: St. Lawrence University's women's cross country
team place four runners in the top 30 and earned the second
podium finish in program history at the NCAA Division III
Cross Country Championships at the Kings Island Golf Center
in Mason, OH on Saturday, finishing third. The Saints,
making their seventh straight championship appearance and
ninth overall, had their fifth top ten finish and the second
best in program history, trailing only the second place 2009
team. SLU finished with 138 points, trailing only Johns
Hopkins which had 87 and MIT which finished with 112. The
top three teams finished exactly in the same positions as
the final national poll going into the meet. Senior
Cassia Hameline, running her first season of cross
country, earned All America honors and was the top Saint
finisher with an eighth place finish in 21:51.5. She is the
fourth Saint runner in program history to have a top ten
finish, joining two-time champion Wendy Pavlus, Johanna
Ludington and
Amy Cymerman. "We ran about as well as we possibly
could," said Saint coach
Mike Howard. "We have an extremely young team...even
Cassie as a senior is really a rookie...and while I was real
confident going in because of the way we have run up to this
point, nerves are always an issue in this kind of race. We
talked about our race plan for the last couple of days and
we went out real aggressive right from the start. They
carried out the plan marvelously." First Year
Megan Kellogg was the second Saint finisher and will be
the first rookie All America in Saint program history after
an 11th place finish in 21:57.1. Kellogg was the top first
year finisher in the race and recorded the best first year
finish in Saint program history. The previous best was a
39th place finish by
Ella Martin in 2012. Senior
Anne Martino and sophomore
Lisa Grohn were the other top 30 finishers for the
Saints with Martino in 21st in 22:19.1 and Grohn in 26th in
22:20.9. Martino and Grohn both made dramatic improvements
over their finishes of a year ago with Martino moving up 71
places and Grohn 36. They join Hameline and Kellogg as All
America, giving the Saints four in one year for the first
time in program history. "Four All Americas in one race is
pretty impressive," Howard said. "Megan
Kellogg ran lights out. She has continued to get better
and better in each of the last couple of weeks. She got out
a little slower than we wanted…she was caught up in some
traffic and stuck back in the 70s and 80s, but she put in a
lot of work to move up. You don't usually see that kind of
composure in any runner, to say nothing of a rookie." First
Year
Ashley Leta completed the Saint scoring with a 115th
place finish in 23:21.5 while
Carrie Pomainville was sixth in 178th, running 23:47.7
and
Anna Rabideau finished 238th in 24:23.7. "Johns Hopkins
and MIT have veteran teams, but I think we put a little fear
in them. We were even with them, or even a little ahead
through the top four runners. Their experience and depth
made a difference…not to take anything away from
Ashley Leta, our fifth finisher, who ran a gutsy race
over the last 1000 meters to move by a number of runners and
lock up third for us." Howard added.
Nov. 15: Two big moves by rookies over the final 2000
meters of Saturday's NCAA Atlantic Region Cross Country
Championship at Genesee Valley Park in Rochester made a huge
difference for St. Lawrence University's nationally
second-ranked cross country team.
Megan Kellogg moved up four spots over the final 2000
meters to finish third overall and
Carrie Pomainville passed five runners to move into 30th
at the finish and the points gained were enough to give the
Saints a 50-51 win over Geneseo in the first head-to-head
meeting between the two state powers this season. "We knew
going into the race that Geneseo was a very talented,
veteran team so it was going to be a battle and it certainly
played out that way," said Saint coach
Mike Howard. Both the Saints and Geneseo
advance to the NCAA Division III Championships in Ohio Nov.
22 as the automatic qualifiers from the Atlantic Region
while Oneonta, which finished third, fourth place Cortland
and perhaps others from the 39-team regional field will have
to wait and see if they land at large bids. The Atlantic
region title was the fifth for the Saints since 2009 and
they will be going to nationals as a team for the seventh
straight year. Geneseo, ranked second in the region and
fifth in the national polls, led the Saints at both the 2000
and 4000 meter marks in the race, but Saint runners steadily
moved up to position themselves for the strong final third
of the 6000 meter race. Senior
Cassia Hameline and sophomore
Lisa Grohn ran in the top ten from the start of the
race, and Kellogg, 12th after 2000 meters, made a move in
the second 2000, moving into seventh before a strong final
2K to help power the Saint surge past Geneseo in the team
standings. Hameline finished second overall behind
individual champion Amy Regan of Stevens Institute, who won
the race in 21:05.8. Hameline ran 21:26.2 with Kellogg
finishing in 21:34.5.
Anne Martino was seventh in 21:44.1 and Grohn finished
eighth in 21:56.7 to give the Saints four in the top ten.
"I'm extremely proud of this team. We graduated eight
talented seniors last year so our success this season was
going to require huge improvements from our upperclass
ladies and big time performances from our rookies, both
delivered today. Cassie continued to run remarkably,
Anne Martino, a senior with four years of NCAA
experience ran big time over the last mile to gain a few
critical spots and our first-year class, Kellogg, who may
have run the best rookie race I have ever seen, Pomainville
and Leta, ran lights out finishing as three of the top four
first-year runners in the region," Howard added. Geneseo had
its scorers in with three in the top ten and five in the top
17, but Pomainville's move from 35th to 30th over the final
2000 meters was the key to the Saint win as the Saint top
five finished a point ahead of Geneseo. Pomainville ran
22:39.1 with her strong finish while
Ashley Leta was the sixth Saint finisher in 37th in
22:47.3 and
Anna Rabideau was 99th in 23:53.9.
Aug 30. With more than half of the top 10 constituted of
Clarkson University Cross Country members, the Golden
Knights' men's and women's runners dominated the 2014
Kangaroos Cross Country Invitational on Saturday.
Men's Race Results
Women's Race Results The Golden Knights' men had three
of the top five, seven of the top 10, 10 of the top 15 and
18 of the top 30, Clarkson scored just 25 points in the
5,000-meter event at SUNY Canton. Plattsburgh was second at
46, followed by Johnson State (98), host SUNY Canton (104)
and Potsdam State (108). The women weren't quite so dominant
overall (14 of the top 30 total, but four of the top five
and seven of the top 10), but actually scored lower with
just 21 points with the fifth runner taking seventh overall.
Potsdam State was a distant second (71), followed by
Plattsburgh State (74), SUNY Canton (100), and Johnson State
(105). Freshman AJ Beers ( Square, NY) came in second
place with a time of 17:22 (5:36 mile), 34 seconds off the
pace of the top finisher, and was he was followed by
classmate Matt Danosky (Attleboro, MA) just a second later.
Sophomore Lukas Patrizio (Port Chester, NY) took fifth place
in 17:40 and another freshman, Kris Lizins (Elverson, PA)
came in seventh to round out the scoring. Freshmen Taylor
Fenoff (Saratoga Springs, NY), Jacob Erdman (Gouverneur,
NY), and Michael Fife (Alton, NH) closed out the top 10 for
the Knights. On the women's side, sophomore Victoria
Hathaway (Troy, NY) came in second place with a time of
21:12, 12 seconds shy of the top time. Senior Sarah
Governale (Wading River, NY) took third in 21:23, while
freshman Tara Siegle (Poland, NY) came in fourth in 21:59
and junior Lindsey McCormick (Gouverneur, NY) crossed the
finish line at 22:12. McCormick's classmate Ashley Forshey
(Scotia, NY) closed out the Clarkson scoring by coming in
seventh in 22:53, but Allie Day (North Yarmouth, ME) and
Chelsea Farinacci (Huntington, NY) were right behind her in
eighth and ninth, respectively.
Aug 30. Employing a six-woman team comprised mostly of
underclassmen, the Plattsburgh State women's cross country
team raced to a third-place finish in its season-opening
race at the SUNY Canton Kangaroo Invitational on Saturday
afternoon. The Cardinals put up 74 team points to beat out
both SUNY Canton and Johnson State. Clarkson netted a total
of 21 team points to take home the title while SUNY Potsdam
amassed 71 points to edge out Plattsburgh State for the
runner-up spot. Freshman Jessie Smillie put forth the
only top-ten finish of the day for Plattsburgh State when
the product of Bohemia, N.Y., crossed the end line in a
10th-place time of 23:27. After Smillie's splendid
debut race was in the books, a trio of Cardinal racers
checked in as top-20 finishers. Sophomore Brianna Bessette
completed the five-kilometer course in 15th-place time of
24:13. Hot on the heels of Bessette was the first-year
duo of Caitlin O'Donnell and Emily Haig. O'Donnell recorded
a 16th-place finish in 24:16 while Haig checked in in 17th
place with a time of 24:17. Junior Kelsey McNally rounded
out the group of top-five Plattsburgh State finishers by
completing the course in 24:58 - good for 22nd place.
Plattsburgh State newcomer Lien Manly was the final Cardinal
to cross the finish line as she began her collegiate cross
country career with a 32nd-place finish in 26:32. On
Saturday, Sept. 6, the Cardinals will make their home debut
by racing in the annual Cardinal Classic. The five-kilometer
race is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., directly outside of
the Field House.
Aug 30. Freshman
Samantha Smith (Mooers Forks, NY) crossed the line in
sixth place overall leading the SUNY Canton women's cross
country team to a fourth place finish at the second annual
Kangaroo Invitational on Saturday afternoon. Smith covered
the 5-kilometer course in 22:20 in her first collegiate
race.
Keara Byrne (Queensbury, NY) posted a time of 24:34 to
place 19th individually. Meanwhile,
Kim McCarthy (Ludlow, MA) finished third for the Roos in
a time of 25:44 good for 28th. Freshmen
Rachel Youngers (Evans, NY) and
Patti Carpenter (Penfield, NY) rounded out the top five
SUNY Canton finishers crossing the line in 31st and 40th
place, respectively.
Laura DiFrenza (Salt Point, NY) and
Bri Herd (Rochester, NY) also turned in top 50
performances for the Roos. The Roos posted a team score of
100 points in the five-team event edging out Johnson State
College (105). Clarkson University took home the team title
with 21 points, while SUNY Potsdam (71) and SUNY Plattsburgh
(74) battled it out for second and third place,
respectively.
Full Results The women's cross country team is back in
action Sunday, September 7 when they travel to Castleton, VT
to take part in the Castleton State Invitational.
