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Millersville's Priscilla Jennings (Solanco) took home first-place honors at the Delaware Invitational Saturday, handily beating a field largely comprised of Division I runners.
Jennings' time of 17:51 was 35 seconds better than the second-place finisher and over a minute in front of third place.
Erica Anderson (20:04) and Brittney Zuver (20:06) also clocked top-30 finishes for the Marauders.
Millersville finished fourth of 14 teams, behind host Delaware, George Mason and Towson.
• The Millersville men's cross country team finished fifth of 14 teams at the Delaware Invitational Saturday.
The top five Marauder finishers ran times within a minute of each other, led by Connor Veres (27:44). Tim Stauring (28:11), Ben Morrison (28:17), Paul Walton (28:39) and Jeff Rafach (28:42) rounded out the top five.
George Mason won the team competition and Morgan State's Justus David claimed individual honors with a time of 25:38.
• Elizabethtown College men's cross-country team finished fifth out of 28 schools at the Inter-Regional Rumble, hosted by Oberlin College on Saturday afternoon.
The Blue Jays tallied 166 points as a team, finishing behind New York University (53), Allegheny College (56), Carnegie Mellon University (98) and the University of St. Thomas (114).
Eric Reichert was the top finisher for the Blue Jays, crossing the line eighth in 25:18. Colby Miller was 24th in 25:46, and Chris Heisey finished 33rd in 26:01.
Chris Marker of Allegheny was the individual winner with a time of 24:46.
• Elizabethtown College senior Megan Vandenhengel finished in sixth place to lead the Blue Jays to a 13th-place team finish at the Inter-Regional Rumble, hosted by Oberlin College.
Vandenhengel completed the six kilometer course in 21:56, 53 seconds behind champion Joanna Johnson of Oberlin.
• Stevens College's Chad Barninger won the Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association Championship meet Saturday at Penn State-Scranton with a time of 30:41.
Barninger completed the season having won every race he entered. He garnered conference honors as the year's outstanding male runner.
The Community College of Philadelphia won the meet with Stevens finishing second.
Field Hockey: The eighth-ranked Millersville field hockey team got three first-half goals and shut out Limestone College, 7-0, in a nonconference contest in Erie Saturday afternoon.
Kristie Testa (Lancaster Catholic) and Krista Bupp both tallied two goals, and Emily Woodland, Ashley Webber and Lauri Blessing each added one goal for the Marauders (8-8).
• Haverford's three-goal run in the first 10 minutes of the second half proved to be the difference as the Fords defeated Franklin & Marshall 3-1 in Centennial Conference action.
The Diplomats struck first midway through the first half. When Allison McLaren deflected Eileen O'Reilly's shot past the keeper, putting F&M up 1-0.
The loss ends the Diplomats' (6-7, 2-5) chance at a postseason, while the win keeps Haverford's (5-8, 3-3) hopes alive.
Men's soccer: Dylan Langley scored early in the first half to provide the lone tally as No. 12 Swarthmore earned a 1-0 win over visiting Franklin & Marshall a in Centennial Conference matchup.
Franklin & Marshall (8-5-1, 4-2) fired 14 shots, six of which were on goal, but they could not solve Swarthmore keeper David D'Annunzio. The Garnet improve to 13-1, 5-1.
Women's soccer: Haverford's Kate Van Aken's early goal stood as the game-winner as the Fords defeated host Franklin & Marshall 1-0 in the Centennial Conference.
Aken's goal came in the 11th minute when she headed an Anna Rayne free kick over the outstretched arms of F&M keeper Katie Golding.
Haverford improves to 9-2-2 (4-2), and the Diplomats fall to 3-12 (1-6).
Volleyball: The Millersville women's volleyball team dropped two matches Saturday afternoon, first falling to PSAC East rival West Chester, 3-1, and then coming up just short against Glenville State, 3-2.
In the first set against the Golden Rams (14-11), Millersville (11-21) posted 15 kills, while WCU had only nine. The kill advantage helped MU earn a 25-19 victory in the set before the Golden Rams turned their play up a notch in the final three sets.
Millersville battled back from a 2-0 deficit in their second match before falling to Glenville State (9-16) in the deciding fifth set, 15-13.
Postponements: Heavy rains forced the postponement of all four Elizabethtown College home athletic events Saturday: field hockey against Arcadia, men's and women's soccer against Widener and women's tennis against Alvernia. None of the games have been rescheduled.
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