THE FACTS
>Gettysburg places 35th
What: Paul Short Run in women's cross country action
When: Friday, Oct. 3
Where: Bethlehem, Pa.

THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg competed in the White Race of the annual prestigious four-race Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh, finishing 35th in the race with 899 points.

THE LEADERS
• Elyse Tancini (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) led the Bullets with a 110th-place showing, posting a time of 22:51.2 on the 6,000-meter course. Her time was nearly a minute faster than her 6K time last week.

FOR THE FOES
• NYU won the 45-team race with 55 points, outdistancing Carnegie Mellon by 102 points.
• RPI's Jules Bleskoski won the race with a time of 20:20.8. She was one of five runners to break 21 minutes.

THE REST OF THE STORY
• Carys Cook (Hendersonville, Tenn./Lauralton Hall (Texas)) crossed the line 184th with a time of 23:27.1.
• Rowe Crawford (Swarthmore, Pa./Strath Haven) was 211th with a time of 23:37.7.
• Ava Romano (Middletown, N.J./Middletown South) finished 234th with a time of 23:52.2.
• Eliza Hoover (Mahwah, N.J./Academy of the Holy Angels) placed 263rd with a time of 24:15.2.
• Sarah Smith (West Chester, Pa./Unionville) was 267th (24:18) while Sara Lessard (Sharon, Mass./Sharon) was 277th (24:25.5).
• Cassidy Gorham (311th, 24:52.8) and Abbey Woodcome (345th, 25:17.3) rounded out the Bullet competitors.

THE INSIDE STORY
• A total of 404 runners competed at the 6,000-meter distance.
• Elyse Tancini turned in the Bullets' fifth-ranked time on the course while Carys Cook's time ranks 22nd for Gettysburg at Lehigh.

NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at its own Aubrey Shenk Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 18. The first race begins at 10 a.m.