FULL RESULTS

ERIE, Pa. - The Daemen College men's cross country team put together another solid outing today, finishing in third place at the 16-team Penn State-Behrend Invitational held at Behrend Fields this morning.  For Daemen, it was their second straight third-place finish, having done so at last week's season opening meet (Le Moyne Alumni Short Course Invitational).  The Wildcats accumulated 132 points in the team standings, besting fourth-place Gannon University (137) by five.  The University of Mount Union went low with just 17 points to sit atop the leaderboard, while the host Lions of Penn State-Behrend finished in second (59).

The Wildcats were paced in the 8K race by the duo of senior Zach Eustance (Hilton, N.Y./Hilton) and junior Jeremy Rushok (Akron, N.Y./Buffalo State College).  Eustance edged out his teammate to finish in 23rd place (27:52.5) while Rushok coming in four-tenths of a second later in 24th place.

Sophomore Matt Cregan (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) was next, finishing in 33rd place overall.  Cregan completed the course in 28:13.0.

Rounding out the Wildcats' scorers for the event were senior Zac Ekdahl (Middlesex, N.Y./Marcus Whitman) and freshman Matt McCann (Hamburg, N.Y./Frontier).  Ekdahl (28:13.6) came in 40th while McCann broke into the team's top five for the first time in his career, finishing in 55th place overall.

Mount Union took the top three overall spots in the race, including the winning time of 25:50.3 by Dan McGeary - the only sub-26-minute time of the race.

Daemen will enjoy a two-week break between races, returning to action on Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Talon Invitational in Rochester, N.Y., hosted by Roberts Wesleyan College.