Cross Country Teams Open Season At LIU Post Invitational
Men Take 16th; Women Place 18th
Brookville, N.Y.-The University of Bridgeport men's and women's cross teams opened their 2012 seasons at the LIU Post Invitational on Long Island on Saturday morning and the men took sixteenth place; while the women's team was eighteenth.
For the men, senior Dave Clarkin (Coventry, R.I.) was the team's top finisher covering the 8K course in a time of 30:40.03 which was good for the 69th scoring place.
On the women's side, graduate student Anna Krasnowska (Kedzierzyn-Kozie, Poland) was the team's best runner turning in a time of 23:09.29 for the 5K which was good enough for 86th scoring place. Katie Stanley (Grad., Oxford, England) and junior Stephanie Pearce (Surrey, England) were the next two UB women across the finish line.
Both Purple Knight cross country teams are back in action next Saturday at Fairfield University's Father Leeber Invitational.