SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Appalachian State's women's cross country team tied East Tennessee State for the lowest point total at the 11-team Upstate Invitational on Saturday morning and finished second to the Buccaneers, who won the head-to-head tiebreaker.
App State and ETSU both had 48 points, 44 fewer than third-place Campbell. The Bucs claimed the tiebreaker with more head-to-head victories in comparing the teams' No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 runners.
Phylissa Greeley, a junior, led the Mountaineers by placing sixth with a 5K time of 17:58.3. Another junior,
Emily Fedders, posted a top-10 finish by placing ninth with a time of 18:22.0.
App State put its entire top seven among the top 20 in the field, as sophomore
Megan Scannell was 13th in 18:34.5, junior
Elisa Sargent was 15th in 18:35.9, junior
Erin Jameson was 17th in 18:40.2, sophomore
Sarah Venable was 18th in 18:40.9 and senior
Kerry Leonard was 19th in 18:41.7.
Sargent, freshman
Sarah Hajnos (18:50.6), freshman
Samantha Kolor (19:00.4) and senior
Leigh Harrow (19:08.4) recorded personal-best times.
Unattached runner Letitia Saayman had a winning time of 16:58.2, followed by Coastal Carolina's Lisha Van Onselen at 17:39.1.
Women's team results (Division I)
1. East Tennessee State 48
2. Appalachian State 48
3. Campbell 92
4. Coastal Carolina 118
5. Western Carolina 157
6. Mercer 160
7. Winthrop 183
8. UNCW 193
9. USC Upstate 222
10. Wofford 260
11. Gardner-Webb 280
