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Holmdel, NJ -- Sacred Heart University senior Katherine Wrinkle (Medford, N.Y.) (pictured) took top honors, and earned the women's most outstanding cross country performer, while St. Francis University claimed its third consecutive Northeast Conference Championship on Saturday morning at Holmdel Park. Wrinkle ran the five-kilometer course in 18:50.3, while Red Flash freshman Erika Jacobs (Toronto, Ontario), who earned Freshman of the Year honors, finished in second place overall, crossing the line in 19:26.5.
St. Francis, who had four runners place in the top-14 to earn All-Northeast Conference honors, claimed the team award in the meet with 52 points, six points ahead of Sacred Heart, whose coach, Christian Morrison earned NEC Coach of the Year.
Monmouth University, also with four runners in the top-14, took third place in the meet with 64 points, while Wagner College (89) and Quinnipiac University (114) rounded out the top-five team finishers.
Rachael Knous (St. Mary's, Ohio) of Wagner crossed the line in third position with a time of 19:27.6, while Quinnipiac's Carolyn Robin (Foster, R.I.) took fourth place (19:31.6) and Katina Alexander (Pleasantville, N.J.) of Monmouth University finished in fifth place, leading the Hawks with a time 19:38.4.
Mount St. Mary's sophomore Brittany McCann (Franklinville, N.J.) finished in sixth place with a time of 19:42.6, while Sacred Heart's Suzanne Neglia (Andover, N.J.) claimed seventh position with a time of 19:55.5.
St. Francis University boasted the eighth through tenth place finishers, as Laura Beach (Curryville, Pa.), Whitney Schnarr (Waterloo, Ontario) and Amy Shoemaker (Ebensburg, Pa.) crossed the line with times of 20:02.8, 20:05.4 and 20:07.5, respectively.
Maris Reutzel (Meadville, Pa.) of Wagner came in eleventh place (20:09.0), just ahead of three Monmouth runners, who rounded out the All-NEC performers in the meet. Junior Erin Guinther (Slatington, Pa.) broke through in twelfth place (20:11.8), while sophomores Kristin Wallace (Oswego, N.Y.) with a time of 20:14.4 and Erin Vaccaro (Langhorne, Pa.) (20:19.3), took thirteenth and fourteenth place, respectively.
Team Scores
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Rank Team Total 1 2 3 4 5 *6 *7
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1 ST. FRANCIS PA 52 2 8 9 10 23 36 37
Total Time: 1:40:26.20
Average: 20:05.24
2 SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY 58 1 7 15 17 18 30 33
Total Time: 1:40:02.30
Average: 20:00.46
3 MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 64 5 12 13 14 20 25 29
Total Time: 1:41:00.70
Average: 20:12.14
4 WAGNER COLLEGE 89 3 11 16 27 32 40 42
Total Time: 1:42:23.40
Average: 20:28.68
5 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY 114 4 21 24 31 34 35 41
Total Time: 1:43:33.40
Average: 20:42.68
6 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE 184 19 28 38 47 52
Total Time: 1:48:17.70
Average: 21:39.54
7 MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE 186 6 26 39 57 58 71
Total Time: 1:49:36.70
Average: 21:55.34
8 ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY 251 43 49 51 53 55 61 69
Total Time: 1:52:57.20
Average: 22:35.44
9 ST. FRANCIS NY 252 45 46 48 54 59 60 62
Total Time: 1:53:45.00
Average: 22:45.00
10 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVE 273 22 50 66 67 68
Total Time: 2:04:23.00
Average: 24:52.60
11 LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY 292 44 56 63 64 65 70
Total Time: 2:04:28.20
Average: 24:53.64
Women's Cross Country All-Conference Performers (Top-14 Finishers)
Name Year School Avg Mile Finals Pts
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1 Wrinkle, Katherine SR SACRED HEART 6:37.9 18:50.3 1
2 Jacobs, Erika FR ST. FRANCIS PA 6:50.6 19:26.5 2
3 Knous, Rachael JR WAGNER COLLEGE 6:51.0 19:27.6 3
4 Robin, Carolyn GS QUINNIPIAC U 6:52.4 19:31.6 4
5 Alexander, Katina SO MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 6:54.8 19:38.4 5
6 McCann, Brittany SO MT. ST. MARY 6:56.3 19:42.6 6
7 Neglia, Suzanne SR SACRED HEART 7:00.9 19:55.5 7
8 Beach, Laura JR ST. FRANCIS PA 7:03.4 20:02.8 8
9 Schnarr, Whitney FR ST. FRANCIS PA 7:04.3 20:05.4 9
10 Shoemaker, Amy FR ST. FRANCIS PA 7:05.1 20:07.5 10
11 Reutzel, Maris FR WAGNER COLLEGE 7:05.6 20:09.0 11
12 Guinther, Erin JR MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 7:06.6 20:11.8 12
13 Wallace, Kristin SO MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 7:07.5 20:14.4 13
14 Vaccaro, Erin SO MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY 7:09.2 20:19.3 14