Senior Rich Klauber Dominates, Leads Bobcats to 12th Place (out of 33 Teams) at Lehigh Paul Short Run
2012 Men's Cross Country Homepage
2012 Men's Cross Country Scheule
2012 Lehigh Paul Short Men's 8k Brown Race Results
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Quinnipiac men's cross country team put forth on of their strongest efforts of the season on Friday afternoon at the Lehigh Paul Short Men's 8k Brown Race as they placed 12th out of 33 collegiate teams. The Bobcats amassed 379 points on the afternoon while the University of Pennsylvania claimed first place with 47 points. Highlighting the Bobcat's effort was senior Richard Klauber (Thomaston, Conn.) who placed 6th overall (out of 225 runners) with a blazing time of 25:23.
"I'm so proud of the men for the job they did today," Quinnipiac men's cross country head coach Carolyn Martin said. "They've come a long ways since the start of the season and now we are consistently putting together strong finishes each week, it only shows how much we are capable of if we can just keep the momentum going."
The 2008 NEC Outstanding Performer of the Year, Klauber successfully navigated his way around a massive group of runners to claim the top-10 finish and a new personal-best time as well. The dynamic duo of Klauber and freshman Brendan Copley (Colchester, Vt.) put forth another strong showing and finishing first and second on the team for the third time in three races together this season. Copley put together a time of 25:55, landing him in 22nd-place in the overall results. His time is a new personal-best and his result was fourth best among all freshmen runners in the event.
Senior Mike Levene (Redding, Conn.) came through third fastest on the team with a 97th-place result, crossing the finish line in 26:53. Sophomore Spencer Mannion (Brookfield, Conn.) was not far behind Levene, finishing the race in 27:15 and 122nd-place. Freshman Daniel Fox (Johnsburg, Ill.) bested his previous season-best time of 27:41.5 at the Shawn M. Nassaney Memorial Race with 27:21 at the Lehigh Paul Short event.
The Bobcats are now in line for the New England Championships at Stanley Park in Westfield, Mass. on Sunday, Oct. 7. The men's sub varsity race will begin at 12:45 p.m. and varsity opens at 2:15 p.m.
PLACE TEAM POINTS
1 Univ of Pennsylvania 47
2 Canisius College 167
3 Stony Brook 182
4 East Stroudsburg Univ 186
5 Suny Cortland 191
6 Monmouth 206
7 Univ of Pittsburgh 263
8 Shippensburg 295
9 The College of N J 344
10 Indiana Univ. of Pa 348
11 Univ. of Vermont 355
12 Quinnipiac University 379
13 Rensselaer Polytechni 379
14 Colgate University 385
15 Coll of the Holy Cros 423
16 Ithaca College 426
17 Wesleyan University 427
18 West Chester Universi 501
19 Vassar College 502
20 Kutztown University 514
21 Suny Plattsburgh 519
22 Lafayette College 532
23 South Florida 564
24 Suny Fredonia 587
25 Moravian College 639
26 Manhattan College 697
27 Dowling College 723
28 Liu-Post 747
29 Suny Brockport 809
30 St. Thomas Aquinas 819
31 Gettysburg College 873
32 Loyola Univ Maryland 878
33 Niagara University 899
Contact: Maxx McNall; maxx.mcnall@quinnipiac.edu