Men Conquer the Frostburg Mountains for 1st Place

For the third consecutive meet, the men's XC team took home the team title. The team finished in 1st with 45 points - 6 points ahead of Division II institution Pitt-Johnstown and 11 points ahead of Division II school, Alderson Broaddus.

On a day with cross country meet weather conditions, the men went up against 13 other schools and the hills of Frostburg, MD. Fortunately, after the women's race the course was still relatively good - but after one loop of the men's race it became pretty muddy. A few people lost shoes during the race and one guy from another school actually ran the entire race without shoes...that's how muddy and swampy some areas of the course were. Combine those conditions with the level of competition from the other schools - the men's team really did conquer the home course!

Our top-7 guys all finished in the top-25 and all under 32:00. Two of the men finished in the top-10, with one finishing in the top-3.

Robbie Romano was the first finisher for the Bobcats - crossing the line in 3rd place with a time of 28:39.37 (that's about a 5:45 average mile pace - and they run just a little less than 5 miles). Teammate, Jake Rickards came across the line in 9th place, a little over a minute later and only 3 seconds behind the 8th place finisher. Xavier Alvarez and Timmy Wolodkin finished just outside the top-10 in 11th and 12th place respectively. Xavier who ran a 30:21.29, crossed the line 8 seconds ahead of Timmy (30:29.04). Lorenzo Wilson was our 5th runner in and 19th overall (30:59.57). Rounding out the top-7 runners for the Bobcats were Matt Whitley and Brady Dumonchelle. Finishing within 10 seconds of each other, Matt came across the line in 23rd place with a time of 31:20.31 and Brady finished 25th overall. Senior Ben Allston competed for the first time this season - and in his first race he just barely missed out on being in the team's top-7.

Below is a list of the results for just the Bobcats. Congratulations FSU Men's XC!

FSU Men's results:

3rd - Robbie Romano - 28:39.37

9th - Jake Rickards - 29:57.35

11th - Xavier Alvarez - 30:21.29

12th - Timmy Wolodkin - 30:29.04

19th - Lorenzo Wilson - 30:59.57

23rd - Matt Whitley - 31:20.31

25th - Brady Dumonchelle - 31:30.15

26th - Ben Allston - 31:45.65

37th - Zach Talbert - 33:16.80

38th - Stan Higham - 33:21.26