Saturday, September 10
Loudonville, N.Y.
10 a.m.
Bucknell University
at
Siena Invite
Photo by: Marc Hagemeier
Whittaker Places Third, Men’s Cross Country Team Fourth at Siena Invitational
9/10/2022 3:31:00 PM | Men's Cross Country
RESULTS
LATHAM, N.Y. – Bucknell senior Samuel Whittaker continued his strong start to the 2022 season with a third-place finish at the Siena Invitational on Saturday. Whittaker finished just eight seconds off the lead and took third in a field of 191 competitors, and the Bison finished fourth out of 14 teams.
RPI won the meet with 44 points, followed by Siena with 69, Williams with 89, and Bucknell with 100. Rider rounded out the top five with 110 points.
Whittaker covered the 8,000-meter course in 24:59.9. It was a strong follow-up to his winning performance at last week's Bison Open, when he finished 21 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
Elias Lindgren of Williams, who was the runner-up at the 2021 NCAA Division III Championship, crossed the line first in 24:51.1. RPI's Matthew Lecky, another DIII All-American. was second in 24:56.3, followed by Whittaker. The top three finished eight seconds apart, with the next pack of runners coming in 26 seconds later.
All seven Bison runners finished in the top 32, and the scoring five were all 29th or better. Bucknell's second through sixth runners consisted of three sophomores and two freshmen behind the senior Whittaker. Ben Santos was the No. 2 Bison in 21st place, followed by Bobby Lynam (23rd), Trent Dinant (24th), and Grayson Crockett (29th). Henry Didden (31st) and Domenic Campagna (32nd) were displacing runners.
"We were in pretty good position as a team at the 6K mark and then some of our men kind of broke down a bit," said head coach Kevin Donner. "Some of our guys were feeling under the weather with colds and congestion and just didn't have that final gear that you need over the last two kilometers. We should see a pretty good improvement over the next few weeks."
Bucknell will next have a week off before competing at the Boston College Invitational on Sept. 23.
LATHAM, N.Y. – Bucknell senior Samuel Whittaker continued his strong start to the 2022 season with a third-place finish at the Siena Invitational on Saturday. Whittaker finished just eight seconds off the lead and took third in a field of 191 competitors, and the Bison finished fourth out of 14 teams.
RPI won the meet with 44 points, followed by Siena with 69, Williams with 89, and Bucknell with 100. Rider rounded out the top five with 110 points.
Whittaker covered the 8,000-meter course in 24:59.9. It was a strong follow-up to his winning performance at last week's Bison Open, when he finished 21 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
Elias Lindgren of Williams, who was the runner-up at the 2021 NCAA Division III Championship, crossed the line first in 24:51.1. RPI's Matthew Lecky, another DIII All-American. was second in 24:56.3, followed by Whittaker. The top three finished eight seconds apart, with the next pack of runners coming in 26 seconds later.
All seven Bison runners finished in the top 32, and the scoring five were all 29th or better. Bucknell's second through sixth runners consisted of three sophomores and two freshmen behind the senior Whittaker. Ben Santos was the No. 2 Bison in 21st place, followed by Bobby Lynam (23rd), Trent Dinant (24th), and Grayson Crockett (29th). Henry Didden (31st) and Domenic Campagna (32nd) were displacing runners.
"We were in pretty good position as a team at the 6K mark and then some of our men kind of broke down a bit," said head coach Kevin Donner. "Some of our guys were feeling under the weather with colds and congestion and just didn't have that final gear that you need over the last two kilometers. We should see a pretty good improvement over the next few weeks."
Bucknell will next have a week off before competing at the Boston College Invitational on Sept. 23.
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