Men's Cross Country Conquers RMU Colonial Invitational

Saturday, September 16

Moon Township, PA

Bucknell University

Robert Morris Invitational

Photo by: Marc Hagemeier

Men's Cross Country Conquers RMU Colonial Invitational

9/16/2023 2:45:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

CLIFFORD, Pa.- The Bucknell Bison men's cross country team brought home its first victory of the 2023 season by defeating a host of regional opponents at the RMU Colonial Invitational. Bucknell used a first-place from Henry Didden to power the Orange & Blue to victory by 24 points over Slippery Rock. It was the first meet win for the Bucknell men since triumphing in the Bison Opener in 2022.

Results

**Standings**
Placement	Team	Points
1st	Bucknell	24
2nd	Slippery Rock	48
3rd	Robert Morris	82
4th	Indiana (Pa.)	109
5th	Mount Union	119
6th	Point Park	170

Donner's Debriefing

"This was a much-improved meet for our men compared to Colgate two weeks ago," said head coach Kevin Donner. "This was exactly what I wanted to see from our men. We handled the longer race well. It is always nice to win a meet, but I was also pleased with our competitors as we had to work for the win. We experimented going out a little faster than normal to see how we would handle the transition of settling in, and I thought most of our guys did a nice job at it. Didden held back a little bit early on to keep our other top guys together but at the four-mile mark, he just pulled away and looked good doing it."

Recap

Sophomore Henry Didden, after finishing second at the Harry Lang Invitational, captured his first cross country victory, finishing with a time of 24:19.4. He led the second-place runner by nearly eight seconds.

For the second week in a row, sophomore Grayson Crockett was the number two runner for Bucknell. Crockett broke into the top five, placing fourth (24:35.0).

Trent Dinant joined his fellow sophomores in the top ten, collecting sixth place (24.39.7), finishing 22 spots higher than at the Lang Invitational.

Peter Sorensen and Mason Siebenhaar rounded out the Bucknell scorers, placing eighth (24:50.4) and ninth (24:50.8) to put all Bucknell talliers in the top ten.

Senior Christian Cadmus narrowly missed the top ten by placing 11th (24:54.8).

Freshman Hayden Singer led all first-year runners with his 23rd-place finish (25.19.7).

Up Next

The Bison are off until the Paul Short Run on Sept. 30.