BETHLEHEM, PA. – Cortland's women finished seventh overall and were the second-best Div. III school in the Brown Division of the Lehigh University Paul Short Run. The Red Dragons finished with 318 points. Bucknell won the race with 81 points. The 40-team race featured 16 Div. I schools, of which 11 placed behind Cortland.

Junior Kayla Blomback (Orchard Park) turned in a 42nd-place finish out of 360 runners with her time of 22 minutes, 41 seconds over 6,000 meters. Senior Ameena Dye (DeWitt/Jamesville-DeWitt) and junior Kerri Culhane (Sayville) were 59th (22:51) and 61st (22:52), respectively.

Junior Michelyn Little (Voorheesville/Clayton A. Bouton) and junior Kailyn Balzano (East Greenbush/Columbia) were each clocked officially in 23:05, with Little taking 85th place and Balzano 87th. Sophomore Allison Schumann (North Salem) also placed in the top third of the field with a 95th-place time of 23:09.

Also competing for Cortland in the division were: freshman Megan Wagner (Niskayuna) in 159th place (23:44); junior Jackie Boyce (Schaghticoke/Greenwich) in 190th place (24:03); freshman Sara Billings (Gansevoort/South Glens Falls) in 245th place (24:32); and freshman Jenny Messina (Queensbury) in 266th place (24:43).

Nine Red Dragons ran in the Paul Short Open Division. Cortland's best performer in that race was freshman Stephanie Carrier (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) in 177th place out of 402 runners in 24:35.

Cortland will compete next Saturday, Oct. 11, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Complete Results:
Women (Brown)
Women (Open)
Men (Brown)
Men (Open)