ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Saturday, September 27, 2003

Etown Top-Finishing Division III Team at Lock Haven Invitational

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown finished seventh out of 16 teams and first among the four NCAA Division III teams competing at the Lock Haven University Invitational Saturday. The Blue Jays had recently added the meet to their schedule following the cancellation of the September 20 Elizabethtown Invitational due to hurricane damage sustained by the course.

Steve Sanko (Hazleton, PA/Bishop Hafey) was the Blue Jays' top finisher, coming in at 19th place out of 191 runners with a time of 25:39. Greg Wetzel (Warrington, PA/Central Bucks East) finished nine places and 17 seconds behind Sanko, and Matt Rockwell (Plymouth, NH/Plymouth Regional) was the number three Blue Jay finisher in 51st place with a time of 26:37. Senior co-captain Sean Mulcahy (Towanda, PA/Towanda) placed fourth in 26:44, finishing 54th overall, and first-year Brent Landis (Quarryville, PA/Solanco) broke into the top five for the first time in his collegiate career with a 68th-place finish in 27:10, finishing just ahead of displacers Nate Moore (Elverson, PA/Twin Valley) and Chris Williams (Dillsburg, PA/Northern York), who placed 75th and 77th, respectively, in 27:17 and 27:18.

Elizabethtown, which is in the midst of the most intense phase of its training cycle, will return to action at the Hanover College Pre-National Invitational Friday, October 10. There, the Blue Jays will get to test out the 2003 NCAA Division III Championship course while competing against some of the best teams in Division III.

Lock Haven University Invitational:

Team Scores: 1. West Virginia Track Club 32; 2. Princeton 50; 3. Penn State 102; 4. Lock Haven 118; 5. Millersville 166; 6. Duquesne 171; 7. Elizabethtown 186; 8. Bloomsburg 248; 9. Fairleigh Dickinson 282; 10. Bucknell 295; 11. Univ. of Charleston 301; 12. Slippery Rock 310; 13. Scranton 327; 14. Clarion 364; 15. West Virginia Wesleyan 401; 16. Frostburg State 446

Etown Results: 19. Steve Sanko 25:39; 28. Greg Wetzel 25:56; 51. Matt Rockwell 26:37; 54. Sean Mulcahy 26:44; 68. Brent Landis 27:10; 75. Nate Moore 27:17; 77. Chris Williams 27:18; 98. Jason Theobald 27:49; 111. Jose Miranda 28:07; 117. Nick Patterson 28:20; 124. Jason Ives 28:36; 130. David Cohen 28:46; 149. Brad Hiller 29:33; 188. Ryan Beltz 33:37