Stevenson and Hogan Pace Colonials in Paul Short Invite

Friday, October 3

Lehigh, PA

10:00 AM

George Washington University

Paul Short Invitational

10/5/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track/Cross Country

Oct. 5, 2008

LEHIGH, PA -

LEHIGH, PA - Senior Collin Stevenson and redshirt sophomore Megan Hogan once again were strong for the Colonials in their race in Lehigh, PA at the Paul Short Invitational. Stevenson ran a 26:12 in the 8K race and Hogan followed up her strong run two weeks ago and ran a 21:37 in the women's 6K race.

The women finished in 35th place out of 43 teams at the race, and had very strong runs from their top three. Full George Washington women's results are below:

35. GW 1356 54 Megan Hogan, Jr* 21:37 5:48
1358 152 Meaghan Smith, Jr* 22:50 6:07
1361 169 Jessica Stern, So* 23:01 6:10
1362 259 Kelly Wills, Jr* 24:11 6:29
1359 276 Kyla Sommers, Fr* 24:54 6:40
1357 278 Laura Petrik, So* 24:56 6:41
1355 288 Emily Foster, Fr* 25:41 6:53
Time = 1:56:30 Places = 910

The men's team had a very balanced effort and their entire results are as follows:

40. GW 256 202 Collin Stevenson, Sr 26:12 5:17
254 218 Rob Lockhart, Jr 26:29 5:20
255 236 Keith Moody, Sr 26:47 5:24
249 241 Dan Cartica, Jr 26:51 5:25
257 250 Andrew Zahornacky, So 26:59 5:26
252 271 Dan Kane, Fr 27:39 5:34
248 285 Zach Borenstein, So 28:26 5:44
Time = 2:13:15 Places = 1147

Head Coach Brian Beil was pleased overall with his team's effort on Friday. "While our team score wasn't what we were hoping for today, there were some notable individual performances," said Beil. "Our top three female finishers ran as a pack for half of the race, and Megan Hogan was able to put in a strong, even-split effort as a result. Three girls set new personal records for the 6K, but we know we've got to close the gap from our #1 runner to our #5 runner if we hope to post the team score we're looking for at the conference championship in four weeks."

The team now gets the week off as it will return to action at the Penn State National Invitational. The meet is scheduled to take place at State College, PA on Friday, October 17 at 10:00 a.m.