For Immediate Release WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS— 9.14.02 Contact: Christina Cracolici Phone: (781) 283-2003 E-mail: ccracoli@wellesley.edu Wellesley Finishes Third In Roger Williams Invitational Bristol, R.I. – A youth-laden Wellesley College cross -country team place third overall at the Roger Williams Invitational, Saturday in Briston R.I. The race was a 5,000 meter run. Wellesley had two top-ten finishers as senior captain Morgan Adams (Cumberland Foreside, Maine/North Yarmouth Academy) placed ninth with a time of 20:30. First-year Christine Grant (Mercer Island, Washington/Mercer Island) placed fourth overall in her first collegiate race with a time of 20:04, 28 seconds behind the first place finisher Kirsti Fitzgerald of Connecticut College. Wellesley returns to action Saturday, September 21 at the Williams Invitational. Race time is schedule for 1 p.m. Team Scoring 1. Conn College – 1:41:23/20:16 avg. 2. US Coast Guard Academy – 1:43:43/20:44 avg. 1. Wellesley – 1:43:59/20:47 avg 3. Mount Holyoke – 1:44:50/20:58 avg. 4. Roger Williams – 1:45:56/21:11 avg. 5. U.Mass.-Dartmouth – 1:50:12/22:02 avg. 6. Babson College – 1:50:49/22:09 avg 7. Salve Regina – 1:51:22/22:16 avg. Wellesley Individual Runners Place 4th - Christine Grant, 20:04.00 9th – Morgan Adams, 20:30.00 13th – Lisa Damon, 20:46.00 21st – Rina Ito, 21:16.00 33rd – Olivia Griffiths, 21:39.00 46th – Mimi Monteiro, 22:12 68th – Erin Bys, 23:10.00 70th – Erika Spitzer, 23:30.00 71st – Bianca Levin-Soler, 23:35.00 75th – Laura Bowman, 23:41.00 ## |