Men's Cross Country Set to Compete at the AMCC Championships Saturday

Men's Cross Country Set to Compete at the AMCC Championships Saturday

ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend men's cross country team heads to Mt. Aloysius on Saturday for the 2022 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships. The 8K race will begin at 12:15 p.m. on the campus of the Mounties in Cresson, Pa.

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Penn State Behrend Men's News & Notes

* The Lions are looking for their 14th AMCC Championship in program history
* Behrend has won two in a row (2020, 2021)
* Last season, the Lions had seven runners place in the Top 10 to earn a team score of 20 at the championship meet
* Aidan Domencic (Cranberry Township, PA/Seneca Valley) is the top returning runner from the championship meet a year ago, finishing in third
* Sophomore Kody Klein (North East, PA/Cathedral Prep) has the fourth best 8K time in the AMCC heading into the race
* Klein, the 2021 AMCC Newcomer of the Year, posted his season-best time of 26:44.9 at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble almost two weeks ago
* Domencic and Nick Temel (Conneaut Lake, PA/Conneaut Area) are also ranked in the Top 10 best times in the conference to date
* The Top 10 runners will be named to the AMCC All-Conference Team

Competing Teams

Alfred State
Hilbert
La Roche
Mt. Aloysius
Penn State Behrend
Pitt-Greensburg