Meet Results

PREBLE, N.Y. – The Plattsburgh State women's cross country team placed third out of nine teams at the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Championships hosted by SUNY Cortland Saturday at Dwyer Memorial Park, posting a score of 106 points.
 
The Cardinals placed just ahead of Cortland, with the fourth-place Red Dragons registering a score of 108 points. SUNY Oneonta took fifth (121 points), SUNY New Paltz placed sixth (127 points), Oswego State finished seventh (191 points), Buffalo State came in eighth (211 points) and Fredonia notched a ninth-place result (228 points). SUNY Potsdam did not register a team score due to the fact that it did not have the minimum five runners needed.
 
Senior Aislyn McDonough (Rouses Point, N.Y./Northeastern Clinton) fired off a 7:03 mile pace navigating the six-kilometer course and eventually stopped the clock at a 17th-place time of 26:14.9. Making their SUNYAC Championship debuts, first-year student Sarah Smith (Lake Pleasant, N.Y./Wells) finished 22nd (26:58.2), while her classmate, Lauren Purvis (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool), placed 24th (27:03.4).
 
Senior Rebecca Block (Lake Grove, N.Y./Sachem North) took 27th (27:17.0), while first-year students Skyler Misiaszek (Castleton, N.Y./Maple Hill) and Emma Ginnane (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) and senior Kristen Thomas (Islip, N.Y./Islip) placed 48th (28:28.8), 58th (29:24.8) and 61st (29:24.8), respectively, to round out the Cardinals top seven runners.
 
SUNY Geneseo won its 20th overall and 10th consecutive conference championship with a near-perfect score of 17 points. Junior Kathleen McCarey of Geneseo won the individual title with a time of 23:57.8.
 
Plattsburgh State next competes at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championships hosted by Connecticut College on Saturday, Nov. 13, at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn.