Sept. 19, 2009

Cavaliers Dominate Lou Onesty Invitational
The Virginia men’s and women’s cross country teams dominated their season openers on Saturday morning at Panorama Farms with both teams winning their respective Lou Onesty Invitational titles. Senior Lauretta Dezubay won her second-consecutive crown to lead the women’s squad to the title with 19 points, while junior All-American Emil Heineking ran away with the men’s title and the squad captured the victory with 28 points.

Dezubay won her second Lou Onesty title finishing the race in a personal-best time of 17:42.5. Senior Stephanie Garcia followed Dezubay across the line, finishing second and completing the course in 18:15.3. Junior Laurel MacMillan finished fourth in 18:44.3 before a slew of Cavaliers came in at 8-9-10-11, led by senior Samantha Stafford who finished eighth in 19:19.5. Senior Ariane Sloan finished ninth in 19:25.0, sophomore Anna Corrigan was 10th with a time of 19:33.4 and sophomore Erin Klein wrapped up the Cavalier finishers, claiming 14th in 19:44.4

For the men, Heineking won the title by almost a minute, finishing in 24:04.8. Sophomore Sean Keveren finished fourth for Virginia in 25:13.4, while junior Andrew Revelle took sixth in 25:22.4. Finishing in a pack of three and taking 10th-place was sophomore Sintayehu Taye, clocking in at 25:27.6. Junior Andrew Mearns finished 12th in 25:43.2 and junior Robbie Eckardt was 17th with a time of 26:23.9.

King Wins UMass Invitational

Amherst, Mass. - The Boston College women's cross country team, led by junior Caroline King, turned in its second straight first place finish to start the season with a win at the UMass Invitational on September 19. The Eagles had five runners place in the top 10, and four runners place in the top eight spots. The meet featured four other schools in UMass, Maine, Vermont and Amherst College.

The Eagles won the meet with 32 points, while Vermont's 42 points were good enough for second place. Maine came in third place with 93 points, while Amherst and UMass finished fourth and fifth respectively with 85 and 93 points.

Upperclassmen led the way for Boston College in this race as King crossed the line first with a time of 17:19, while classmate Christy Titus finished in seventh place with a time of 17:59. Senior Gretchen Andrus had a solid day as well for the Eagles as she finished in sixth place with a time of 17:52.