ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY 
Saturday, November 13, 1999

FROSTBURG, Md. --- The Elizabethtown men’s cross country team will participate in the NCAA Division III national meet for the first time ever as a team. The Blue Jay men finished in second place out of 30 teams at the NCAA Mid-East Regional meet Saturday, hosted by Frostburg State.

The two top finishing teams, Haverford and Elizabethtown, earned places at the NCAA National Meet Saturday, November 30 at Oshkosh, WI.

Franklin and Marshall’s Frank McCartney finished first overall with a time of 25:31. Elizabethtown’s top finisher was freshman Christian Hoch (Dillsburg, PA/Northern). The first freshman to cross the finish line, he finished eighth overall with a 26:25 time. Etown’s Larry Bullock (Rome, PA/Northeast Bradford) was right on Hoch’s heels, finishing ninth overall in 26:25.

Frank Rivera (Carlstadt, NJ/Becton Regional) was the third Blue Jay finisher, coming in at 28th with a 26:57 time. Jeff Harmon (Owings Mills, MD/Loyola Blakefield) finished 30th in 26:59, Mike Zwatty (Lewisberry, PA/Red Land) finished 32nd in 27:03, Dave Berdan (Dingmans Ferry, PA/Delaware Valley) crossed the line in 47th place in 27:25 and Dustin Scott (Morgantown, PA/Twin Valley) was the seventh Blue Jay to finish and the last to qualify for participation in the national meet. He finished 56th with a time of 27:33.

Hoch, Bullock, Rivera, Harmon and Zwatty were all named to the All-Mid-East Regional team, the most from Etown ever to receive this honor in a single year. Also, Hoch, Rivera, Zwatty and Berdan were among the first seven freshman overall to finish in the race, earning them All-Freshman first team honors. Scott placed among the top fourteen freshman to earn a spot on the All-Freshman second team.

The men’s team improved from a 24th place finish at last year’s regional meet to a second place finish and a program-first team national meet qualification over the course of a single year.

The last time Elizabethtown competed as a team in a national championship meet, it was a 26th place finish out of 56 teams at the old NCAA College Division Championships in Chicago, IL in 1965.

at Frostburg, Md.
NCAA Mid-East Regional meet
MEN’S RESULTS:
Participants (top two finishing teams receive NCAA Championship bids):
1. Haverford, 63
2. Elizabethtown, 107
3. Dickinson, 115
4. Allegheny, 159
5. Carnegie Mellon, 166
6. Swarthmore, 189
7. Frostburg State, 232
8. U. of Scranton, 262
9. Grove City, 263
10. Gettysburg, 293
11. Widener, 297
12. Johns Hopkins, 317
13. Salisbury State, 381
14. Franklin and Marshall, 395
15. Muhlenberg, 423
16. Moravian, 430
17. Lebanon Valley, 433
18. Allentown, 437
19. Messiah, 472
20. Ursinus, 511
21. Penn State-Behrend, 578
22. Susquehanna, 582
23. Albright, 631
24. Cabrini, 661
25. Marywood, 729
26. Goucher, 731
27. Delaware Valley, 777
28. Washington and Jefferson, 827
29. Western Maryland, 836
30. Wesley, 843

Top individual time:
1. Frank McCartney, Franklin and Marshall, 25:31

Elizabethtown finishers:
8. Christian Hoch, 26:25
9. Larry Bullock, 26:25
28. Frank Rivera, 26:57
30. Jeff Harmon, 26:59
32. Mike Zwatty, 27:03
47. Dave Berdan, 27:25
56. Dustin Scott, 27:33