Cross Country Finishes Eighth and Ninth at BIG EAST Championships

Cross Country Finishes Eighth and Ninth at BIG EAST ChampionshipsCross Country Finishes Eighth and Ninth at BIG EAST Championships

Oct. 31, 2009

Men's Results | Women's Results

KENOSHA, Wis. - The University of Cincinnati men's and women's cross country teams finished in eighth and ninth place, respectively, at the 2009 BIG EAST Conference Championships Saturday afternoon at the Wayne E. Dannehl Cross Country Course. Villanova captured the women's title with 30 points, while Syracuse took home the men's championship with 55 points.

UC's men's team finished in eighth place with 250 points, while the women's team scored 272 points for a ninth-place showing.

Sophomore Eric Finan paced the men's team with a 24th-place finish and time of 25:45.6. Junior David Barry finished second on the squad crossing the line in a time of 26:19, which was good enough for 41st place, before freshman Corey Stoll crossed the line with a mark of 27:18, his best team finish of the season. Fellow freshmen Oliver Book and Chase Beckmann concluded the scoring as the duo was a second apart and finished 63rd and 65th, respectively.

Senior Jocelyn McCauley led a tightly packed group of UC runners clocking in at 22:25 placing her 34th. Senior Tamara Masters and junior Lilian Jelimo were separated by just four seconds, respectively, as the duo crossed the line in 46th and 48th place. Junior Michele McKenney was the next Bearcats runner to cross the finish line, doing so in a time of 23:36, before junior Katie Lewnard's time of 24:41 finished the UC point tally.

Cincinnati will train for a week before returning to action at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in Bloomington, Ind., on Saturday, Nov. 14.