FULL RESULTS

CASTILE, N.Y. - Junior Jeremy Rushok (Akron, N.Y./Buffalo State College) and sophomore Matt Cregan (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) raced neck-and-neck today to pace the Daemen College men's cross country team at the 36th Annual Geneseo Invitational held at beautiful Letchworth State Park.  Rushok ran the 8K race in 26:47.1, besting Cregan (26:47.3) by just two-tenths of a second, to finish in 82nd and 83rd places, respectively, out of 289 total entrants.

As a team, Daemen accumulated 465 points to finish in 16th place out of 21 competing teams.  15th-place Utica College (439 points) finished 26 points ahead of the Wildcats while the race hosts from SUNY Geneseo went low with just 41 points to sit atop the team standings.

Rounding out the Daemen scorers today were senior Zac Ekdahl (Middlesex, N.Y./Marcus Whitman) and freshmen Matt McCann (Hamburg, N.Y./Frontier) and David DelValle (West Seneca, N.Y./West Seneca West).  Ekdahl came in 149th overall with his time of 27:32.2.  McCann (28:20.1) and DelValle (28:33.5) finished in 186th and 195th places, respectively.

Daemen will take next weekend off before traveling to northern Ohio for the Inter-Regional Rumble hosted by Oberlin College on Saturday, Oct. 18.  The race represents the Wildcats' final tune-up before the East Coast Conference Championships on Saturday, Nov. 8.