XAVIER CROSS COUNTRY NEWSLETTER  10/14/97

            Over the weekend the team competed in two meets, The All Hallow’s Invitational and the Manhattan College Invitational.  The team did very well with 26 runners posting personal bests and 32 seasonal bests.  The team seems to be rounding into shape.  Here are the results:

ALL HALLOW’S INVITATIONAL AT VCP 10/10/97

FROSH RACE (1.5miles)            SOPH RACE (2.5 m)            J.V. RACE (2.5 m)

Alcoser            11:20 *            Dabagh             18:31*             Keane      16:42pr*

Dwyer              11:49               Morillo            19:04*pr         Alcoser    17:01pr*

Bernstien            13:34 pr         Chow               19:14*pr         Carroll     17:20*

Wong               16:13                                                               Smith        18:10

                                                                                                Armstrong  19:19pr

                                                                                                Romano    20:25

                                                                                                Troisi        20:54

                                                                                                Cambeiro  21:30 pr

                                                                                                Donnelley 24:59pr

MANHATTAN COLLEGE INVITATIONAL AT VCP 10/12/97

FROSH RACE                         SOPH RACE

Harmon            9:06 **pr                 Gochal             16:18 *pr

Fedders            9:27 **pr                 Donahue          16:25 *pr

Nolan               9:36 **pr                 Errante             16:53 pr

Sullivan 9:37 **pr                          A Brunetti            17:10

Messina            9:44 **pr                 Rameriez         17:48 pr

Napolitano            10:11* pr                     Letteiri              18:23 pr

Dougherty            10:43 *pr                  

3^rd place team out of 32

J.V. RACE                                         VARSITY RACE

Carrihill            15:36 *pr                   Simko              14:12 *

Pereira             15:40 *pr                   Traugott           14:14 *pr

French              16:10  pr                     Caraballo         14:54

Serrano            16:39  pr                     McGoldrick    15:20 pr

Carpenito            17:47                           Duvert              15:31

Aleksey            18:00                           C Brunetti            15:32

                                                            Joe Alcoser            15:44 pr

MEDAL COUNT:  With the 25 won this weekend, the season total rises to 113.

MOST IMPROVED PERFORMANCE: This week we had some tremendous improvements.  Pat McGoldrick, William Bernstien, Jeff Alcoser, Steve Errante, Lee French, Tom Napolitano, Andrew Donahue, and Joe Alcoser all had over a minute drop in their time. 

BEST PERFORMANCE: This week’s award goes to the 26 runners who hit pr’s this weekend.  Also the Freshman team ran great against some of the toughest competition on the East coast.