Behrend Women’s Cross Country Secures Personal Best Times At Gettysburg

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend women's cross country team finished 14^th in its final regular season race of the season in the Aubrey Shenk Invitational, hosted by Gettysburg on Saturday.

Distance: 6k
Teams: 19
Total Runners: 212

Key Moments:

* Lindsey Hartle (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth) placed 89^th out of 212 runners for a top finish for the Lions
* Hartle delivered a time of 25:04.5, which trumps her previous AMCC fastest time of 25:37.1 that she set at Fredonia
* The next Behrend runner to cross the finish line was Baylee Dernar (Wattsburg, PA/Seneca) in 94^th place with a time of 25:09.3
* This is a personal-best time for Dernar this season
* Macie Horvath (Hermitage, PA/Hermitage) (25:46.8), Bethany Litwiler (Reynolds, PA/Reynolds) (25:54.1), Alivia Hetrick (Waterford, PA/Waterford) (25:57.5) finished in 115^th, 117^th, and 119^th, respectively
* These marks are all season-bests for Horvath, Litwiler, and Hetrick
* Other Lions to register personal best times at Gettysburg were Ivy Laffan (Waterford, PA/Fort LeBoeuf) (26:05.4), Sam Abate (North East, PA/North East) (26:13.7), and Abby Major (Erie, PA/McDowell) (27:51.4)
* Behrend notched a team score of 408 for 14^th place out of 19 teams
* The host Gettysburg was victorious with a team score of 95, followed by Towson (104) and Allegheny (124)

Up Next:

* The Lions will compete in the conference championships on Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Westmoreland Fairgrounds in Greensburg, PA. Women's race begins at 11 a.m., followed by the men's race at noon