ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY 
Tuesday, September 21, 1999

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Soaked from the rain, mud-spattered and exhausted, 80 runners from Elizabethtown, Millersville, and Franklin and Marshall crossed the finish line at Elizabethtown College's cross country course Tuesday with one purpose in mind: to determine which school's teams are the fastest in Lancaster County.  In the end, the victors of the first annual 'Battle for the Buggy' Lancaster County collegiate cross country championship were Elizabethtown's men and Millersville's women.

The men's 5000 meter race began at 5:00 p.m.  16 minutes and 37 seconds later, Franklin and Marshall's Frank McCartney (Chalfont, PA/Germantown Academy) was the first to cross the finish line.  He was also the only Diplomat to finish in the top 15.

Jim Carney of Millersville finished second with a time of 16:53, and Elizabethtown's Larry Bullock (Rome, PA/Northeast Bradford) finished third in 16:56.  Immediately following Bullock was Etown teammate Mike Zwatty (Lewisberry, PA/Red Land), and Millersville's Mark Stallings (Atglen/Great Valley) completed the top five.

Elizabethtown's top five finishers all occupied the race's top ten, while Millersville had four runners finish in the top ten.  The end result was that Elizabethtown defeated Millersville, 25-30, and Franklin and Marshall, 20-39, to win the inaugural men's Battle for the Buggy.

Elizabethtown returns to action at the Frostburg State Invitational Saturday, October 2, 1999.  Start time for the women's race is 11:00 a.m., and start time for the men is 11:45 a.m.

Date:  Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Site:  Etown College
Distance: 5,000 meters
Course: all grass and trails with some rough footing, somewhat hilly
Conditions: 60's, rainy, mud soaked

MEN   5:00 P.M.

Pos. Name              School Time
1st  Frank McCartney      F  16:37
2nd  Jim Carney           M  16:53
3rd  Larry Bullock        E  16:56
4th  Mike Zwatty          E  16:58
5th  Mark Stallings       M  17:02
6th  Jeff Harmon          E  17:12
7th  Stephen Pizzuli      M  17:12
8th  Frank Rivera         E  17:26
9th  Christian Hoch       E  17:37
10th Karl Hollstein       M  17:43
11th Cory Hawley          M  17:47
12th Dustin Scott         E  17:48
13th Russel Stellmach     M  17:51
14th Daniel Kratzer       F  17:55
15th Scott Ware           M  17:58
16th Jordan Romano        F  17:58
17th Dave Berdan          E  18:05
18th William Cordeiro     F  18:06
19th Art Davis            M  18:08
20th Faycal Falaky        F  18:08
21st Ken Contrisciane     M  18:09
22nd Nicholas Montgomery  F  18:15
23rd Michael Berg         F  18:16
24th Cory Soulliard       M  18:19
25th Colin Foran          E  18:24
26th Neale McPheron       M  18:28
27th David Thaler         M  18:35
28th Keith Greenawalt     E  18:37
29th Andrew Hoffman       F  18:37
30th Ian Tracy            E  18:53
31st John Ulrich          E  18:55
32nd Christoff Lombard    M  19:06
33rd Mike Bushnell        M  19:22
34th Ryan Gibbons         F  19:33
35th Justin Udzella       E  19:39
36th Alexander Grant      F  19:39
37th Craig Oakum          E  19:59
38th Charlie Vincent      F  20:02
39th Scott Miller         M  20:15
40th Paul Keen            F  20:17
41st Brian Doherty        F  20:39
42nd Matthews Banda       F  20:50
43rd Tony Alicea          E  21:07
44th Jonathan Bost        E  21:19
45th Nathan Lawrence      F  23:33

Team Scores:               Standings:
Etown 25, Millersville 30  Millersville  1-1
Etown 20, F&M 39           Etown  2-0
Millersville 20, F&M 39    F&M  0-2