Dartmouth Women Run to 5th Place at Penn State's National Open

Friday, October 12

University Park, Pa.

10:45 AM

Dartmouth College

Penn State National Invitational

Photo by: Doug Austin

Dartmouth Women Run to 5th Place at Penn State's National Open

10/12/2018 1:19:00 PM | Women's Cross Country

Big Green take 5th at meet of national powers.

By: Pat Salvas

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Dartmouth women's cross country team ran to a fifth-place showing Friday morning at Penn State's National Open.

The Big Green posted 186 points on the 6K Blue-White Golf Course, led by junior Georgia Fear's 23rd-place showing in 21:11. Classmate Lauren Sapone was also credited with a time of 21:11, but was deemed to be 26th in the order of finish.

The host Nittany Lions were first in the team standings with 62 points with Michigan State (87), Georgia Tech (143) and Princeton (182) finishing ahead of Dartmouth.

As has been the story of the 2018 Big Green, the team benefited from a tight grouping of scoring runners. Friday was no different as Julia Stevenson was the third Dartmouth harrier to pick up points and was just four spots and two seconds back of Sapone as she was 30th in 21:13.

Lillian Anderson (53rd, 21:30) and Olivia Lantz (54th, 21:31) rounded out the scoring runners for the Green and White, while Glennis Murphy (60th, 21:35) and Ella Ketchum (74th, 21:42) weren't too far back.

In total, 28 teams and nearly 300 runners comprised the race.

The team is back in action next week at Central Connecticut's Short Course meet on Friday.