Men's Cross Country Set to Compete at Dickinson Long-Short Invitational

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Men's Cross Country Set to Compete at Dickinson Long-Short Invitational

9/25/2015 10:33:00 AM | Men's Cross Country

By: TBD

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bucknell men's cross country team will compete for the first time in three weeks when it travels to Newville, Pennsylvania for the Dickinson Long-Short Invitational on Saturday. The event will be held at Big Spring High School and features two separate courses for 4k and 8k races. The Bison will only compete in the shorter of the two.

"We were originally going to just bring our non-varsity runners and split them between the long and short races like last year," said Bucknell head coach Kevin Donner. "However after we decided to withdraw from Penn State last week, we decided to bring everyone and just run the shorter 4k races to use it as a tune-up for next week's races at Louisville and Lehigh. The athletes are excited about a shorter race and they will recover quickly from it."

A champion will be declared for each of the races, as well as an overall champion from the combined scores. Bucknell finished third of 36 teams last year. John Westwood was best among current Bison runners with his 17^th-place finish out of 260 runners in the 4k event. He was followed by Jordan Jackson in 21^st and Louis Tobias in 22^nd. Luke Giugliano was 11^th in a field of 233 runners in the 8k race, while Peter Murray was 14^th and Ross Pirnie was 22^nd.

In the team's lone event so far this season, Bucknell took third in a challenging field of eight teams at Colgate's Harry Lang Invitational. Giugliano, Pirnie, Zach Williams, Murray and Tobias all finished in the top 20 among 94 runners.

The Bison follow the Dickinson Invitational with two events next weekend. One group of runners will compete at Lehigh's Paul Short Run on Friday, Oct. 2, while another group will run at the Greater Louisville Classic on Saturday, Oct. 3.