HOUGHTON, N.Y. – The SUNYIT Men's Cross Country Team continued to run circles around the majority of their competition on Saturday, finishing in 2nd-place out of 15 teams at the Houghton College Highlander Invitational.
Continuing to dominate with equanimity was SUNYIT freshman Derek Struck (Knox, N.Y. / Knox-Berne-Westerlo). Struck finished second in the ninety-eight person race, giving him his third top-2 finish in the team's first four races. Struck obliterated his previous 8k best on the young season, carding a scorching time of 26:28.88 at the Houghton course.
Struck's supporting cast stepped up big as well, as fellow freshman and high school teammate Sean Reynolds (East Berne, N.Y. / Knox-Berne-Westerlo) unseated team veteran Dylan Parry (Voorheesville, N.Y. / Voorheesville), who until Saturday had possessed a stranglehold on the two-spot for the Wildcats. Reynolds finished in 15th with a time of 27:39.1, but Parry was right behind him in 19th with a mark of 27:46.51. The emergence of both Parry and Reynolds this season has been a boon for the Wildcats, who have put their depth to good use in 2012.
To see the rest of the Wildcat finishers, along with results for the 14 other teams competing at Houghton over the weekend, click the link at the top of the page.
SUNYIT will hit the trails again this Saturday at the Cazenovia Invitational. Race time for the men is scheduled for noon.
