Posted: 10/01/2010
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh hosted the 37th annual Lehigh University Brooks Paul Short Run Friday on the Goodman Campus. Members of both Mountain Hawk teams enjoyed strong performances on the day. Junior Katherine Pierce led Lehigh’s women to a 24th place finish by taking 38th in the women’s 6K Gold race, while junior Evans Kosgei finished 45th in the men’s 8K Gold race to lead Lehigh to a 32nd place finish.
Georgetown captured the women’s team title with 34 points as all seven Hoyas finished in the top 20 individually. Virginia finished second followed by James Madison, Cornell and Columbia. On the men’s side the top two were reversed with Virginia taking the title with 132 points, followed by Georgetown, William & Mary, Dartmouth and the University of Guelph from Canada.
Kosgei crossed the finish line in 24:51 to lead the Lehigh men. Other Mountain Hawks who competed in the men’s 8K Gold race included freshman Jimmy Miller, who finished 107th with a time of 25:14, Senior Andrew Jervis who placed 173rd (25:40), junior Evan Flach (217 – 26:02), junior Dan Soltan (260 – 26:30), senior Kyle O’Connor (279 – 27:04) and freshman Russ Vignali (283 – 27:14).
Liberty’s Sam Chelenga, the 2008 winner of the men’s 8K, captured his second Paul Short Run title with a time of 23:34. Virginia’s Emil Heineking took second, 15 seconds behind Chelenga, while Richmond’s Andrew Benford placed third.
Pierce finished with a time of 22:12, earning top honors among Mountain Hawk women in the 6K Gold race. She was joined in Lehigh’s lineup by freshman Jessica Kendzor who finished in 110th place with a time of 22:17. Also competing were senior Andrea Mascaro (160 – 22:47), freshman Hannah Pierce (166 – 22:48), senior Kaitlin Grimm (178 – 22:55), junior Carolyn Morse (211 – 23:15) and junior Megan Hetzel (214 – 23:19).
Georgetown junior Emily Infeld took top honors in the women’s 6K Gold race, finishing in 20:04, six seconds faster than Colgate’s Elise DeRoo. Alison Parris of James Madison finished third.
Kosgei crossed the finish line in 24:51 to lead the Lehigh men. Other Mountain Hawks who competed in the men’s 8K Gold race included freshman Jimmy Miller, who finished 107th with a time of 25:14, Senior Andrew Jervis who placed 173rd (25:40), junior Evan Flach (217 – 26:02), junior Dan Soltan (260 – 26:30), senior Kyle O’Connor (279 – 27:04) and freshman Russ Vignali (283 – 27:14).
Liberty’s Sam Chelenga, the 2008 winner of the men’s 8K, captured his second Paul Short Run title with a time of 23:34. Virginia’s Emil Heineking took second, 15 seconds behind Chelenga, while Richmond’s Andrew Benford placed third.
In the women’s 6K Brown race, Rutgers totaled 118 points to take first place, while Millersville Elicia Anderson took top honors with a time of 21:03. Princeton had the top two finishers in the men’s 8K Brown race in Max Kaulbach and Alejandro Arroyo Yamin and took first place with 34 points.
The women’s 6K White race went to Kristina Koutsouros of West Chester with a time of 22:04. Swarthmore Collge took the women’s team title in the White race with 92 points. Rowan University won the men’s 8K White race with Eric Dubois and Steve Mennitt taking the top two overall spots for Rowan, Dubois in 26:10 and Mennitt seven seconds later.
In the girls high school Brown race Pennsbury took the team title with 121 points, with Sara Sargent taking individual honors with a time of 17:43. Bethesda-Chevy Chase won the girls White race with Penn Charter’s Catie Skinner taking top honors. Walter Johnson won the boys Brown race, with 127 points. Tunkhannock Area’s Reese Ayers was the overall winner, crossing the finish line in 15:48. In the men’s White race, West Chester East topped the field with 130 points. Taylor Brandon of Kennard-Dale was the individual winner.
In the boys high school JV race Nick Lapinski from Don Bosco Prep finished in first with a time of 17:14. Stephanie Welte from Saint Basil Academy won the girl's JV race with a time of 21:45.
Complete results from the Lehigh Brooks Paul Short Run are available via the links below.