Oct. 13, 2007
Results
EASTON, Pa. - Navy women's cross country runner Bethany Rahall (Fr./Yorktown, Va.) posted the team's fastest time, 37th overall, as the Midshipmen closed out the regular season with an eighth-place finish out of 11 teams at the Lafayette Invitational on Saturday morning at Metzgar Fields.
One day after claiming a 23-38 victory over Army in West Point to capture the N-Star, the Midshipmen primarily raced their freshmen and sophomores en route to a 246-point effort. Maryland won the meet with a score of 68 points, followed by Bucknell's 75 points, Kutztown's 77 points, American's 88 points and Holy Cross's 117 points.
"Our main objective was to get out on and familiar with the league championship course," stated Navy head coach Karen Boyle. "Our second team really ran well, with several runners recording personal records. We had strong finishes with good packing, especially in the middle."
Rahall covered the 6k course in 22:23 to pace the Midshipmen with a 37th-place time out of 122 runners. The Navy freshman's performance marked the first time she led the Mids across the finish line in her young career.
Anne Prisk (Fr./Traverse City, Mich.) came in 53rd place with a 22:50 clocking, followed by Caroline Barlow's (Fr./Orange Park, Fla.) 63rd-place time of 23:07. Kaitlin Baker (So./Rockford, Mich.) registered Navy's fourth-best time, 67th overall, with a 23:11 performance and Nicole Kauzlarich (So./Kanehoe Bay, Hawai'i) rounded out the scoring five with a 23:14 showing for 71st place.
Navy boasted an impressive 51-second differential between its scoring-five runners on Saturday and a 1:02 spread among its top-seven performers.
The Midshipmen will start their postseason by heading back to Lafayette's home course on Saturday, Oct. 27, for the Patriot League Championship. Race time is scheduled for 12 noon.
