The Mens and Womens Cross Country teams showed the significant progress that has been made this year with impressive performances this afternoon at the Brooks Paul Short Run at Lehigh University. In races with many Division II teams and many regionally ranked Division III teams, the women came in second out of 33 teams and the men finished 13th out of 39 teams.
Grove City junior Kristen Carter (Bellingham, Washington) won the women's race in a time of 21:47. Congratulations, Kristen, for this significant accomplishment!
In coming in second, the women who had been unranked in the Mideast Division beat four teams that are currently ranked in the top ten in the Region. While not all of these teams may have been at full strength today (for example, it is noted that Mia Symoniak and Carly Latus of Allegheny have not yet competed this year and each of them did well in the Mideast Regional last year), the Grove City women have certainly shown today that they deserve to be ranked. Here are the teams competing today from our region:
| Womens Team | Place Today | Regional Ranking 9/25 |
| Grove City | Second | Unranked |
| Allegheny | Fourth | Fifth |
| Gettysburg | Fifth | Tenth |
| Messiah | Ninth | Seventh |
| Elizabethtown | Tenth | Eighth |
| Carnegie Mellon | Twenty-Second | Ninth |
Running today without reigning PAC Champion Dan Spaulding, the men also bettered many regionally ranked teams. Based on these results, expect to see Muhlenberg and Grove City added to the top ten in the region when the regional rankings are announced on Tuesday. Here are the results of the ranked teams in the race today, together with Muhlenberg and Grove City:
| Men's Team | Finish Today | Regional Ranking 9/25/07 |
| Dickinson | First | Fourth |
| Johns Hopkins | Third | Fifth |
| Muhlenberg | Fourth | Unranked |
| Grove City | Thirteenth | Unranked |
| Gettysburg | Eighteenth | Tenth |
| Messiah | Nineteenth | Seventh |
| Elizabethtown | Twenty-Fourth | Ninth |
Finally, it should be noted that the first three teams in our region competed in the Brown Races for Division I and ranked Division II/III teams. Thus, Haverford, Allegheny and Carnergie Mellon had excellent results in the men's race; and Dickinson, Haverford and Johns Hopkins likewise in the women's race. The times of these teams would have placed each of them ahead of any of the teams from our region in the White races.
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