Cross Country starts season 9/6/14 in Hamilton 11:30

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9/5/2014 12:22:00 PM
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The cross country team will begin its 2014 campaign this Saturday at the Harry Lang Invitational in Hamilton, NY. The men, who finished 10th in last year's NCAA Championship, and the women, who finished 22nd, both enter the season ranked in the top-13 of the Coaches' Poll.

Chris Fox Previews the 2014 Season

Ranking the Orange

• Both the Syracuse men and Syracuse women enter the 2014 season ranked No. 1 in the Northeast Region in the USTFCCCA Preseason Poll.
• The men's team is ranked No. 8 in the national poll while the women's team is ranked No. 13.
• The Orange men were unanimously selected to repeat as ACC champions in the ACC coaches' poll. The Orange women were picked to finish third in the conference, just as they did in 2013.

Looking to Repeat

• The Orange will have a number of titles that they're looking to defend in 2014, with the first being the Harry Lang Invitational on Saturday.
• Both the Orange men and Orange women took first place in last year's Harry Lang Invitational.
• Jurius Silenieks and [URL='http://cuse.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=11233']Margo Malone

• were the teams' top runners at this event in 2013. Both return to the team as juniors in 2014.

New Look Orange

• The men's team brings in four freshmen in 2014 while the women's team welcomes six from the Class of 2018
• The men joining the team are: Mickey Burke [Henrietta,N.Y.], T.J. Hornberger [Derby,N.Y.], Justin Knight [Vaughan, Ontario] and Andrew Paladino [Morgantown,W. Va.].
• The women joining the team are: Stephanie Bitcon [Wayne, NJ.], Haley Cutright [Roanoke, Va.], Mary Malone [Pittsburgh, Pa.], Kellee McCann [Newark, Texas], Sabrina Olsen [Thomaston, Conn.] and Chelsie Pennello [Poolsville, Md.].

Familiar Faces

• From last year's NCAA Northeast Regional Tournament, the Orange return five of their top-seven women and four of their top-seven men.
• The returning men from the regional tournament are: Martin Hehir, Reed Kamyszek, Max Straneva and Ryan Urie.
• The returning women from the regional tournament are: Sydney Leiher, Maura Linde, Margo Malone, Jessie Petersen and Meredith Speakman.

Social Media

• Fans can stay updated through social media by using facebook.com/cuse or twitter.com/cuse

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Appreciate this. My oldest (13) runs XC and perhaps reading some of this will give him proper motivation to train harder. He finished 4th overall in their first open meet because he didn't really train hard over the summer. Gotta show up in shape!

 

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Looking at the Colgate athletic site looks like this meet starts at 11:30.

 

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Nikki Alexandra Todd‏@NewhouseSUNikki 31m
10 mins 'til women's xc team at SU begins here at Colgate University at the Harry Lang Invitational @NewhouseSports pic.twitter.com/OICOWWMaDa

 

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Nikki Alexandra Todd‏@NewhouseSUNikki 5m
Rain is starting to fall here in Hamilton just before the men's xc team starts the season off. @NewhouseSports

 

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  9:25 AM - 6 Sep 2014
  Nikki Alexandra Todd‏@NewhouseSUNikki 2m
  The SU and Colgate men's xc team started their season just a few minutes ago @NewhouseSports pic.twitter.com/NY9ZGW6h5U

 

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Nikki Alexandra Todd‏@NewhouseSUNikki 45s
Sophomore Shawn Wilson finished first for the SU men's xc team. @NewhouseSports stick around for the story of the season opener later!

 

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Danielle Kennedy@DNKennedy_ · 8h
Syracuse women's Cross Country opens their season with a win at Harry Lang Invite. Senior Angelica Peck is the top finisher @NewhouseSports

 

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http://cuse.com/news/2014/9/6/XC_0906144525.aspx?path=ccountry#.VAupGbkg-1s

9/6/2014 7:28:00 PM
The Syracuse cross country team got their season started in dominant fashion on Saturday, cruising to a pair of victories at the Harry Lang Invitational.

Men's Results | Women's Results

The 'Cuse women took the top-10 spots in the race and the men placed 11 in the top-12 including the first five. Junior Angelica Peck took the women's crown and freshman Shawn Wilson earned the men's title.

Peck paced the women's race, finishing in 16:30.50, exactly 10 seconds ahead of sophomore Emily Nist. Freshman Stephanie Bitcon (16:51.00) was the first SU newcomer across the line, finishing third.

Senior Molly Malone (17:00.90) and sophomore Rebecca Skodis (17:12.40) rounded out the Syracuse top-five, with Katherine Fleischer (6th, 17:12.40), Karina
Ernst (7th, 17:14.20), Mary Malone (8th,17:24.70), Chelsie Pennello (9th, 17:34.80) and Sabrina Olsen (10th, 17:54.60) rounding out the Orange in the field.

A pack of freshmen were out front for the Orange men as Wilson completed the course in 20:38.80 in his Orange debut, with Mickey Burke (2nd, 20:39.10), Colin Bennie (3rd, 20:39.30) and T.J. Hornberger (4th, 20:39.60) right on his heels.

Junior Andrew Bennison took fifth with a time of 20:40.10 to close out the Syracuse scoring. Joseph Kush (20:42.60), Nick Ryan (20:45.60), last year's champion in this event Juris Silenieks (21:08.70), Robert Hall (21:20.70), Philo Germano (21:23.60) and Andrew Paladino (21:34.90) finished seventh through 12th overall respectively as the other 'Cuse competitors.

The Orange will return to action next Saturday, Sept. 13 at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational on the campus of Penn State.

 

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Newhouse Sports‏@NewhouseSports 12h
Top runners held out - SUWXC still swept to open the season at Colgate. @NewhouseSports coverage by @DNKennedy_- http://newhousesports.syr.edu/2014/09/06/su-cross-country-women-reserves-sweep-colgate-in-season-opener/…

 

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