Women's 4K Results | Women's 6K Results | Women's Combined Team Scores
Men's 4K Results | Men's 8.1K Results | Men's Combined Team Scores

CARLISLE, Pa. – Senior Kerrin Epstein (Moravia, N.Y./Moravia) captured her second race in five days and the Gettysburg College men's and women's cross country teams each turned in an impressive third-place finish at the Dickinson College Long/Short Invitational Saturday at the Carlisle Middle School.

The unique invitational combines the scores from each of the two races, with the team's top three finishers in each race accounting for the team score.

The men's team finished fifth in the 4,000-meter race and third in the 8,100-meter event to finish with a team score of 101. Eighteen other men's teams had enough runners in each race to receive a combined score.

On the strength of Epstein's first-place finish, the Bullets women won the 6,000-meter race and were 10th in the 4,000 meters, accumulating a total score of 129. A total of 17 women's teams earned a combined score.

Junior Clay Reynolds (Medway, Mass./Worcester Academy) led the men's squad in the 4,000-meter race, placing sixth among 171 runners with a time of 12:32.7. Rounding out the team scoring were seniors Adrian Macdonald (Westwood, Mass./Westwood) and Chris McCullough (Havertown, Pa./Malvern Prep), who were 15th and 31st, respectively in 12:45.7 and 13:09.0.

Frank Devor of the University of Mary Washington won the men's 4K in 12:11.

In the men's long race, senior Jeff Butterworth (Glen Mills, Pa./West Chester East) took 10th among 182 harriers, clocking a 27:07.0. Sophomore Brendan Repack (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) was right on Butterworth's heels, taking 12th in 27:09.8, while junior Dan O'Neill (Monroe, N.Y./Don Bosco Prep.) completed the team scoring, finishing 28th in 27:49.8.

Dickinson's Greg Leak won the men's 8,100 meters in 26:06.7. Ninth-ranked Dickinson claimed the team title with 44 points while Carnegie Mellon University was second with a score of 50.

After a comfortable 36-second win at the Little Three Meet on Tuesday, Epstein faced stiffer competition in the 6K on Saturday but crossed the line nine seconds ahead of runner-up Kerry Arouca of Westfield State , finishing in 22:47.1. Senior Sarah Fritz (Ledyard, Conn./Ledyard) was Gettysburg's second finisher, taking sixth among 121 runners in 23:26.8, while freshman Christine Esposito (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) rounded out the team scoring, taking 12th in 24:06.3.

In the women's 4K, freshman Emily Smith (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) led the way with a 28th-place finish in the 173-competitor race. She was timed at 16:12.1. Also figuring into the team score were freshman Yaa Addison (Washington, D.C./St. Andrew's Episcopal School) and junior Casey Lumpkin (Newtown, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph Academy), who were 45th and 48th, respectively, in 16:48.5 and 16:55.1.

Emily Webb of Carnegie Mellon took first in 14:38.7.

No. 33 Dickinson also won the women's race, finishing with a combined score of 79, while Messiah College took second with 96 points.

Gettysburg returns to action next Saturday, when it travels to Messiah for a tri-meet that also will include Juniata College.