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Lady Knights finish 5th at Conference Carolinas Championships October 20, 2007 SPARTANBURG, S.C.—Junior Alyson Trovato (Cedar Park, Texas) finished just 11 seconds behind the race champion in third place to garner First Team All-Conference recognition to lead the St. Andrews Presbyterian College women’s cross country team to a fifth place finish at the 2007 Conference Carolinas Championships on Saturday morning. The Lady Knights had 135 points, just 10 points out of third place, to finish in the top-half of the field in the 12 conference school competition. Trovato just missed her personal record (PR) by four seconds, finishing the 5,000-meter course at the Roger Milliken Research Park (hosted by Converse College) in 19 minutes and 16 seconds. Trovato earned First-Team All-Conference honors for the second straight year with her third place finish out of 82 runners. Senior Veronica Gobeyn (Mullins, S.C.) had a top-20 result for the Knights concluding in 18th place with a time of 20:35. Freshman Marie Hibbard (Statesville, N.C.) set a new 5k PR at SAPC with a speed of 21:05. Hibbard’s fastest time of the year by four seconds was good for 23rd place. Classmate Desiree Cavazos (Fayetteville, N.C.) tied her own PR with a 30th place result and a time of 21:37. Sophomore Bonnie MacDonald (Carthage, N.C.) was the Lady Knights fifth scoring runner at 24:03. Freshman Danielle Martin (Newport, N.C.) and sophomore Lauren Crabb (Kalamazoo, Mich.) concluded the raced with times of 25:19 and 25:42, respectively. The 2007 NCAA Southeast Regional at the Wingate University Athletics Complex will take place on Saturday, November 3 with the women’s 6k race scheduled at 9:30 a.m. and the men’s 10k race at 10:15 a.m. SAPC Individual Results |