ONEONTA, N.Y. – The nationally top-ranked Cortland men's cross country team tied for first place out of nine schools at the Oneonta Airfield Invitational. The Red Dragons claimed four of the top eight individual spots despite still resting some of their top runners. Cortland and Plattsburgh each finished the meet with 45 points, easily ahead of Oneonta's third-place 88 points.

Junior Justin Wager (Guilderland) finished fourth overall and was the third collegiate finisher with a time of 18:54 over a 6,000-meter course. Hamilton College's Peter Kosgei, the 2007 NCAA Division III runner-up, won the race in 18:26.

Junior Jerry Greenlaw (Warwick/Warwick Valley) placed sixth overall in 19:19, with junior Travis DeRusso (East Berne/Berne-Knox-Westerlo) and junior Eric Stermer (Chenango Forks) in seventh (19:21) and eighth (19:27) place, respectively.

Rounding out Cortland's top seven were freshman Ian Clerkin (Cornwall) in 25th place (20:19), freshman Kyle Fitzpatrick (Washingtonville) in 30th place (20:33) and junior Jeffrey Marrone (Hauppauge/St. Anthony's) in 35th place (20:43). In all, 120 runners competed in the race.

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