Women Claim 2nd at Northeast Regional, Punch Their Ticket to NCAA Championship Meet

Friday, November 9

Buffalo, N.Y.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

NCAA Northeast Regional

Photo by: Dartmouth

Women Claim 2nd at Northeast Regional, Punch Their Ticket to NCAA Championship Meet

11/9/2018 11:57:00 AM | Women's Cross Country

Meet Results

Pack running leads Dartmouth to their Ivy League record 13th NCAA meet.

By: Pat Salvas

AMHERST, N.Y. – For the second time in as many years and an Ivy League record 13th time in program history, the Dartmouth women's cross country team has qualified for the NCAA Championship.

The 27th-ranked Big Green will move on to 2018 national championship meet next week in Madison, Wisconsin, thanks to a second-place finish Friday morning at the Northeast Regional in suburban Buffalo.

Dartmouth posted 88 points to punch their ticket, claiming one of the region's two automatic berths along with 20th-ranked Columbia (41 points). The Green edged out third-place Yale by just six points with Cornell (120) taking fourth and making the 6K race on the Audubon Golf Course an Ivy League dominated affair.

Once again, it was pack running that helped Dartmouth during the race in cold, wet, snowy conditions.

Glennis Murphy (10th, 22:09.1) and Lauren Sapone (11th, 22:10.7) led the way at the top, with Georgia Fear (14th, 22:16.8) and Julia Stevenson (16th, 22:16.8) adding some immediate depth to the team scoring.

Rounding out the scoring was Lillian Anderson (37th, 22:40.5) with Olivia Lantz (38th, 22:40.6) one spot out, missing points by a tenth of a second.

The Big Green edged out the other nationally ranked team running on Friday as No. 25 Syracuse took sixth (155).

Check back next week with DartmouthSports.com for all the information regarding the Big Green's trip to the Badger State and the 2018 NCAA Championship.