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Oct. 29, 2005
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LORETTO, PA (October 29, 2005) - The Sacred Heart women's cross country team won their first-ever Northeast Conference Championship Saturday afternoon, finishing in a first-place tie with Quinnipiac to claim a share of the title. For the first time in league history, co-champions were declared at the 2005 NEC Women's Championships in a race held at Immergrun Cross Country Course on the campus of St. Francis (PA).
Sacred Heart's Kathleen Henry (Basking Ridge, NJ) won NEC Freshman of the Year honors and Sacred Heart head coach Christian Morrison was voted the conference's Coach of the Year by his peers.
The Pioneers and Bobcats finished with 51 team points apiece to share the team title. St. Francis (PA) finished third with 61 points while Monmouth(126) and Mount St. Mary's (149) took fourth and fifth, respectively, in the team competition.
Sacred Heart's Kathleen Duffy (Monroe, CT) was the Pioneers top runner and had a time of 19:52 to finish fourth. Henry was right behind her in fifth with a time of 20:02 to round out the top five individuals. Sacred Heart also had a ninth-place finish from Erin Kulasewski (West Warwick, RI) in a time of 20:24. The trio was named to the All-NEC team by virtue of their finish in the top-15 runners.
Senior Jenna Pisani (Vernon, NJ) just missed all-conference honors, coming in 16th with a time of 20:50. Junior Anne Duffy (Monroe, CT) was right on her heels in 17th at 20:51. Rounding out the Pioneer's top-seven where senior Kaitlin Clark (Babylon, NY) in 30th (21:52) and senior Ann Regan (Westfield, MA) in 31st (22:00).
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Quinnipiac's Katie Gwyther established a new course record in capturing her second straight individual crown. By virtue of her victory, Gwyther earned the NEC's Outstanding Performer award.
For the men, senior Tyler Arnett (Clinton Corners, NY) was SHU's fastest runner finishing in 28:36 in 37th place. Freshman Luis German (Southampton, NY) was 46th in 29:12. The rest of the Pioneer lineup featured sophomore Stephen Zito (Guilford, CT) in 50th (29:33), freshman John Kenworthy (Gloversville, NY) in 52nd (29:57), freshman David Jones (Charlton, NY) in 53rd (29:58), senior Robert Gill (Braintree, MA) in 54th (30:00) and junior Robert McDermott (Lindenhurst, NY) in 64th (30:59).
St. Francis (PA) placed five runners in the top 11 to capture the 2005 Northeast Conference Men's Cross Country Championship. The Red Flash's Ryan Sheehan (Pittsburgh, PA) won the race's individual title for the third time in his career and was named the conference's outstanding performer.
Both Pioneer teams will be in action next on Saturday, November 12th when they take part in the NCAA Regional in the Bronx, NY.
PLACE TEAM POINTS PLACES OF FINISHERS AVG. TIME SPREAD 1* Sacred Heart 51 4 5 9 16 17 30 31 20:24 59 1* Quinnipiac 51 1 10 12 13 15 18 20 20:07 2:47 3 Saint Francis (Pa) 61 2 6 8 22 23 25 26 20:27 1:35 4 Monmouth 126 3 7 29 38 49 57 59 21:30 3:21 5 Mount St. Mary's 149 11 24 34 35 45 46 54 21:49 2:26 6 Wagner College 153 19 27 32 33 42 48 21:52 1:44 7 Central Conn. St 159 14 28 36 40 41 50 55 22:00 1:56 8 St. Francis (Ny) 225 21 37 39 60 68 69 70 23:18 5:11 9 Long Island 257 43 47 53 56 58 65 23:27 1:25 10 Robert Morris 272 44 51 52 62 63 64 73 23:48 2:04 11 Fairleigh Dickinson 337 61 66 67 71 72 74 25:44 2:31NEC All-Conference Team
ID# PLACE PLACE FINISHER TIME PACE 119 1 1 Kaitlyn Gwyther, Sr, Quinnipiac* 18:01 5:49 212 2 2 Whitney Schnarr, Jr, Saint Francis (Pa) 19:33 6:18 73 3 3 Katina Alexander, Sr, Monmouth 19:47 6:23 172 4 4 Kathleen Duffy, Jr, Sacred Heart 19:52 6:24 186 5 5 Kathleen Henry, Fr, Sacred Heart^ 20:02 6:27 210 6 6 Erika Jacobs, Jr, Saint Francis (Pa) 20:09 6:30 76 7 7 Malia Lyles, Jr, Monmouth 20:16 6:32 218 8 8 Shannon Kovack, So, Saint Francis (Pa) 20:22 6:34 165 9 9 Erin Kulasewski, Sr, Sacred Heart 20:24 6:35 127 10 10 Ashley Reichelt, So, Quinnipiac 20:27 6:36 92 11 11 Brittany McCann, Sr, Mount St. Mary's 20:30 6:37 122 12 12 Jenna Nechamen, Jr, Quinnipiac 20:36 6:38 125 13 13 Susan Ashe, So, Quinnipiac 20:40 6:40 12 14 14 Ashley Hill, Jr, Central Conn. St 20:41 6:40
* NEC Outstanding Performer ^ NEC Freshman of the Year NEC Coach of the Year: Christian Morrison, Sacred Heart
PLACE TEAM POINTS PLACES OF FINISHERS AVG. TIME SPREAD 1 Saint Francis (Pa) 23 1 2 3 6 11 14 20 26:47 58 2 Quinnipiac 57 7 9 10 15 16 17 19 27:19 41 3 Mount St. Mary's 96 4 5 22 30 35 39 48 27:38 1:44 4 Robert Morris 125 8 18 21 36 42 47 66 28:02 1:45 5 Monmouth 140 23 25 27 31 34 38 40 28:06 30 6 Wagner College 193 13 28 45 49 58 61 28:51 3:06 7 Long Island 207 12 24 41 63 67 69 71 29:19 4:16 8 Central Conn. St 212 29 33 44 51 55 56 60 29:00 2:04 9 Sacred Heart 238 37 46 50 52 53 54 64 29:27 1:23 10 Fairleigh Dickinson 253 26 32 59 62 74 75 30:24 6:23 11 St. Francis (Ny) 303 43 57 65 68 70 72 73 31:01 3:35
NEC All-Conference Team
CLASS ID# PLACE PLACE FINISHER TIME PACE 197 1 1 Ryan Sheehan, Sr, Saint Francis (Pa)* 26:21 5:23 195 2 2 Patrick Quinn, Sr, Saint Francis (Pa) 26:35 5:26 198 3 3 Alphonsus Suravicz, Sr, Saint Francis (Pa) 26:45 5:28 83 4 4 Zach Emerson, Jr, Mount St. Mary's 26:48 5:29 89 5 5 Matt Logie, Fr, Mount St. Mary's^ 26:51 5:29 196 6 6 Kyle Ridington, Sr, Saint Francis (Pa) 26:55 5:30 109 7 7 Jeffrey Roginielewicz, Sr, Quinnipiac 27:01 5:31 135 8 8 Mike Booth, So, Robert Morris 27:08 5:33 104 9 9 Greg Brink, Sr, Quinnipiac 27:11 5:33 112 10 10 Jacob Gurzler, So, Quinnipiac 27:15 5:34 200 11 11 Nicholas Brousse, So, Saint Francis (Pa) 27:19 5:35 41 12 12 Craig Cocchio, Jr, Long Island 27:19 5:35 242 13 13 Mouhamed Halwani, So, Wagner College 27:21 5:35 203 14 14 David Holliday, So, Saint Francis (Pa) 27:22 5:36
* NEC Outstanding Performer ^ NEC Freshman of the Year NEC Coach of the Year: Scott Catone, St. Francis (PA)
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