October 15, 2011
Grove City takes 23rd at Oberlin
OBERLIN, Ohio – The Grove City College men’s cross country
team took 23rd out of 34 teams at the Oberlin College Inter-Regional
Rumble Saturday morning.
The Wolverines finished with 589 team points at the meet,
which featured several of the country’s premier programs. Albion won the team
title with 117 points.
Sophomore Alec Schultz (Wayzata, Minn./Orono) paced Grove City
by finishing 70th overall with a time of 27 minutes, 6.3 seconds.
Sophomore Mark Talbott (Tallmadge, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian) finished 107th
in 27:37.1.
Also for Grove City, junior Wesley Coopersmith (Sellersville,
Pa./Pennridge) finished 127th (27:46.6), junior Tim Coyle (Langhorne,
Pa./Holy Ghost Prep) earned 136th (27:56.1) and junior Francis Ridge
(Derby, N.Y./Lake Shore) finished 182nd in 28:25.0.
Junior Ben Henderson (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) came home 186th
(28:29.0) and freshman Joey Clark (Colorado Springs, Colo./Palmer) placed 192nd
(28:30.9).
Franciscan’s Bill Jones won the individual race with a time of
25:23.3. Three-hundred fifteen runners competed in the race.