BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Daemen College women's cross country team competed inside the Buffalo-Niagara Region for just the seventh time since 2010 today, finishing third out of six non-NCAA Division I teams at the Canisius Alumni Classic held at Delaware Park. The 5K race featured 12 total teams, including seven NCAA Division I affiliates, and was scored separately for Division I and non-Division I teams.
Daemen amassed 77 points in their team standings today, coming in behind nationally-ranked teams McMaster University and SUNY Geneseo. McMaster, the No. 8 ranked team in all of Canada, totaled just 15 points to finish first, while the top NCAA Division III team in the land, Geneseo, finished second with 61 points. St. Francis University (Pa.) totaled 44 points to top the Division I portion of the standings, edging meet host Canisius (49 points) by five.
Daemen, the only NCAA Division II team in the field, elected to rest several of its regulars today.
Mackenzie Donahue (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora),
Amy Trabert (Amherst, N.Y./Amherst),
Brittany Denton (Oakfield, N.Y./Oakfield-Alabama) and
Ashley Cheff (Niagara Falls, N.Y./Niagara Falls) were all held out in order to rest for next week's conference championship meet.
The individual results included all 135 entrants regardless of affiliation. Senior
Hannah Rice (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora) paced the Wildcats by finishing in 57th place with a time of 20:33.3. She was followed by redshirt-sophomore
Rebekah Zee (East Aurora, N.Y./Slippery Rock University) who came in 58th place with the same recorded time of 20:33.3.
Katherine Robinson (Pasadena, Calif./Pasadena),
Shania LiVecchi (West Seneca, N.Y./West Seneca West) and
Emily Bradley (Lockport, N.Y./Starpoint) rounded out the Wildcats' scorers today, placing between 80th and 106th.
Daemen returns to racing next Saturday, October 22 at the East Coast Conference Championship meet in Rochester, N.Y.
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