Felician Athletics - 10/20/07 WOMEN'S CROSS-COUNTRY - Felician Places Three On All-CACC Team, Finishes Second

PHILADELPHIA – Three members of the Felician College women’s cross-country team attained all-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference status at the eighth CACC Championship, hosted by the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia on Saturday morning at Belmont Plateau inside Fairmount Park. Felician finished second in the team standings for the third consecutive year.

By CACC rules, the first 15 finishers in the race were automatically named all-conference. The Golden Falcons’ top runner was freshman Toni Fowler (Mount Holly, NJ/Rancocas Valley), who completed the 5,000-meter (3.1-mile) course in 19 minutes, 58 seconds, good for sixth place out of 73 competitors. Junior Amanda Scibetta (Middletown, NJ/Middletown North), the 2006 individual champion, turned in her third straight all-CACC performance, finishing seventh in 20:40. Sarah Root (Aberdeen, NJ/Old Bridge) joined five other freshmen on the all-conference team, ending up 14th in 21:11.

The trio led Felician to the runner-up finish among 11 participating schools. Felician ended the day with 72 points, 15 behind champion Georgian Court University and three better than third-place Wilmington (Del.) University. Senior Melissa Barroqueiro (Carteret, NJ/Carteret) ran 22nd in 21:46, just 0.39 seconds ahead of sophomore Sophia Chick (Edison, NJ/Edison) in 23rd place to complete the Golden Falcon scoring.

Also running, and able to raise the scores of those finishing behind them, were senior Megan Williams (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) (30th, 22:35) and freshman Kaitlyn Minehan (Ocean City, NJ/Ocean City) (38th, 23:03).

Freshman Heather Miara of Georgian Court was named CACC Runner of the Year and Rookie of the Year after winning the race in 19:23. GCU has won six of the eight team championships.

2007 CACC Cross-Country Championship Results