Men's Results | Women's Results

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College cross country teams ran well on a sloppy day at their own Gettysburg Invitational Saturday afternoon.

Running through a steady rain, the men's team finished with a 107-point score and placed third among 25 teams while the 35th-ranked women's squad had a 139-point score to take fourth out of 28 schools.

The men's team was paced by junior Clay Reynolds (Medway, Mass./Worcester Academy), who finished 10th among 316 runners. He was timed at 26:58 for the 8,000-meter course. The Bullets next four finishers placed just 35 seconds behind Reynolds.

Sophomore Brendan Repack (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) and senior Jeff Butterworth (Glen Mills, Pa./West Chester East) were next across the finish line, taking 23rd and 25th, respectively, in 27:17 and 27:21.

Junior Dan O'Neill (Monroe, N.Y./Don Bosco Prep.) finished 30th in 27:27 while senior Adrian Macdonald (Westwood, Mass./Westwood) rounded out the team scoring, finishing 34th in 27:33.

Division II Shippensburg University won the team title with 26 points while Susquehanna University was second with a score of 97. Makorobondo Salukombo of Denison University broke the tape in 26:19.

In the women's 6,000-meter race, the top three individual finishers were disqualified, resulting in senior Kerrin Epstein (Moravia, N.Y./Moravia) finishing second among 289 harriers in 23:46, just three seconds behind Erin Rhodes of Messiah College. Senior Sarah Fritz (Ledyard, Conn./Ledyard) also broke the top-10, placing ninth in 24:19.

Freshman Christine Esposito (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) placed 29th in 25:19 while senior Katie Haas (Binghamton, N.Y./Seton Catholic Central) finished 41st in 25:47. Sophomore Kyle Philbin (Annapolis, Md./Archbishop Spalding) completed the team scoring, placing 64th in 26:10.

The women's team title was also claimed by Shippensburg, which accumulated 72 points. Christopher Newport University (88) and Messiah (127) were second and third.

Gettysburg competes in its final non-championship meet of the season next Saturday, when it runs at the Elizabethtown College Invitational.