Meet Results
 
CANTON, N.Y. – Plattsburgh State women's cross country's junior Jazz Roberts (Albany, N.Y./Guilderland) posted perhaps her best performance yet in a season full of memorable races, as she finished second in a 220-runner field at the Ronald C. Hoffmann Invitational hosted by St. Lawrence University on Saturday. The six-kilometer course is the same one that the Cardinals will compete at on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the NCAA Division III Atlantic Regional Championships.
 
Roberts charted a time of 22:37.0 and averaged a 6:04 mile pace, edging SUNY New Paltz's senior Emily Cavanagh for the runner-up spot by 4.1 seconds. Roberts was in 10th place through 955 meters and had moved up into second by the two-mile mark. She continued to hold off Cavanagh down the stretch, and Roberts ended up with the top finish among State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) runners at the meet.
 
Sophomore Rebecca Block (Lake Grove, N.Y./Sachem North) was the next Cardinal to cross the finish line, as she took 91st with a time of 25:27.5. Sophomore Kristen Thomas (Islip, N.Y./Islip) finished 161st (26:52.7), while sophomore Aislyn McDonough (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Northeastern Clinton) placed 171st (27:13.0). Senior Mikayla Barrett (Rotterdam, N.Y./Schalmont) and freshmen Madison Myer (Carthage, N.Y./Carthage) and Ashlyn Hatzis (Highland Mills, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) rounded out the Cardinals at the meet with times of 27:34.4, 29:29.8 and 34:11.5, respectively.
 
As a team, the Cardinals finished 19th out of 20 with 471 points, just one point back of 18th-place Utica College. The University of Rochester captured the team title with 59 points, followed by the Rochester Institute of Technology (second, 92) and Ithaca College (third, 108). Ithaca's sophomore Parley Hannan led at each of the checkpoints and finished first individually with a time of 22:08.9.
 
Plattsburgh State competes in its final tune-up before the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Championships on Saturday, Oct. 19, when it runs at the Connecticut College Invitational at 12:15 p.m.