St. John's University Athletics
St. John's University
BIG EAST Championships (6K)
St. John's Finishes 14th At BIG EAST Championships
10/31/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Oct. 31, 2008
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RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Led by senior Tyneka Greene, St. John's cross country moved up a place from last year to finish 14th out of 16 teams at the 2008 BIG EAST Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park on Friday. St. John's hosted the event which featured 16 women's teams and 14 men's teams.
With 397 points, St. John's fell two points shy of 13th place DePaul. Three freshmen scored for the Red Storm. Villanova won the championships with 40 points.
Greene finished 67th out of the field of 137, earning 59 points for the Red Storm with a time of 22:45, marking her career's second-fastest 6K time. Last year in Louisville, the senior captain finished 77th, crossing the tape at 23:15.10.
Running in their first BIG EAST Championships, freshmen Sabine Schneider, Aryon Trujillo and Nicole Cocozza had another great showing for St. John's, as all three scored in the top 100. Schneider finished 80th overall and earned 70 points with her time of 23:03. Trujillo finished 30 seconds later, scoring 81 points with an overall finish of 95th. Cocozza, overtaking three runners from DePaul, crossed the tape at 24:03, good for 90 points and placing 104th.
Sophomore Sarah Sudbury, the Red Storm's fifth consistent scorer, clocked in at 24:09.
Also running for the Red Storm were juniors Sarah Fry and Pamela Petruski, sophomore Kayla Regulski and senior Rakibat Abiola.
Fry pounded out of the woods and into the final stretch of the race neck-in-neck with a pack of five from Cincinnati and Seton Hall. Right at the heels of Alexandra Hehn of Seton Hall and Tanja Neumann of Cincinnati, she was able to overtake the Pirates' Clarisse Moh by .03 seconds at the finish line to place 120th at 24:32.
Petruski and Regulski came into the final stretch in the same group, as Petruski finished 128th with a time of 25:07 and Regulski finished three places and .20 seconds later. In her final BIG EAST race with St. John's, Abiola finished 133rd, clocking in at 25:45.
Up next, St. John's continues with its championship run, as the team will return to Van Cortlandt Park for the NCAA East Regionals on Nov. 15.
2008 BIG EAST Championship 6K Results
59. (67) Tyneka Greene - 22:45
70. (80) Sabine Schneider - 23:03
81. (95) Aryon Trujillo - 23:39
90. (104) Nicole Cocozza - 24:03
97. (111) Sarah Sudbury - 24:09
104. (120) Sarah Fry - 24:32
107. (128) Pamela Petruski - 25:07
131. Kayla Regulski - 25:27
133. Rakibat Abiola - 25:45
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