The womenís cross country team finished fifth out of nine teams at the NCAC Championship meet, finishing two spots ahead of their projected seventh place finish.
The women harriers not only managed to finish ahead of four conference teams, they also landed three All-Conference nods. Sarah Appleton í12 and Colleen OíNeil í13 earned second team honors with 13th and 14th place finishes respectively.† Erin Plews-Ogan í13 finished 17th overall at the meet, good for honorable mention in the conference. Chelsea Fisher í11 and Jess Yarmosky í11 rounded out the scoring for the women with Fisher finishing 38th and Yarmosky at 41st overall in the competition.
The menís team also surpassed expectations, finishing seventh out of the 10 NCAC teams.† Rik Workman í10 led the way for the Scots with a 23rd place finish, followed closely by the 26th place finish of Terry Workman í10.† These individual performances finished just shy of conference honors, but were the best times for the men whose other scorers Jeff Lymaní10, Kevin DeGroot í13 and Ethan Rudowsky í12 finished 41st, 61st and 62nd overall.
The Scots will run next on Nov. 14 in the Div. III Great Lakes Regional Championships where the competition will be steeper and the harriers will hope to have the wind at their backs.