Men's Cross Country | 10/15/2016 4:56:00 PM

Men's Results l Women's Results

GLASSBORO, NJ  - Competing for the first time in two weeks, the Nazareth cross country teams hit the road to New Jersey to run in the Inter-Regional Meet, hosted at Rowan University.  The woman placed 26^th out of 45 teams with 806 points, while the men were 37^th out of 43 teams with 1,187 points.

For the men,  senior Matt Battaglia and freshman Nicasio Gristina fished just over two seconds apart for the 7.8-kilometer course.  Battaglia came in at 26:33.1 for 207^th place, while Gristina followed in 26:35.9 for 214^th place.

Jack Wessel was next in line with a 27:12.2 for 240^th place.

Rounding out the scoring for Nazareth was Thomas Lannon (28:03.6) for 261^st place and Edward Ely (28:21.7) for 265^th place.

On the women's side Johns Hopkins was the champion with 70 points and SUNY Geneseo took the men's title with 71 points.

Emily Thompson cracked the top 100 with a 22:44.6 over the 6-kilometer course to place 98^th.  Freshman Megan Menz crossed the line in 23:10.1 to finish in 142^nd place.

Sophomore Eileen Shea clocked a 23:44.4 to take 185^th place.

Claire Ludington (23:50.8) and Sage Miller (23:52.0) were separated by less than two seconds to take 190^th and 191^st place, respectively.

Nazareth will have two weeks off before the Empire 8 meet on October 29 in Oneonta, NY.