YORK, Pa. - Senior Eric Graves
earned the Capital Athletic Conference Male Athlete of the Year
award as he led the Salisbury University men's cross country team
to its third straight CAC title, seventh overall, with a
first-place finish at the 2007 CAC championships on Saturday at
John Rudy Park in York, Pa. First and second place in both the
men's and women's championships were separated by seven points. The
SU men's team edged University of Mary Washington, 26 to 33, while
the Eagles took first place in the women's race with 27 points to
end Salisbury's streak of three consecutive titles. The SU women's
team finished in second place with 34 points.
Graves crossed the finish line first overall as he won by 30
seconds with a time of 26:04. Fellow senior Buck
Stokes finished third overall and earned first-team
All-CAC honors with a time of 26:44. SU's Zack
Dickerson and Chris Barnard joined Graves
and Stokes as first-team All-CAC runners as they finished fifth and
sixth, respectively. Dickerson and Barnard were separated by a mere
tenth of a second as each runner ran finished with a time of 27:02.
Junior Roland Lane ran arguably his best race of
the season as he finished 11th overall with a time of 27:39 to help
secure the men's championship. Freshman Sam Boimov
finished 12th with a time of 27:44 and junior Ben
Thomas finished 15th overall with a 27:38. Lane, Boimov
and Thomas were named second team All-CAC.
SU swept the three men's postseason awards as Graves was named
CAC Athlete of the Year, Barnard was named CAC Rookie of the Year
and SU head coach Jim Jones was named Coach of the
Year.
Junior Kelly Sullivan and senior Casey
McInerny finished third and fourth overall in the women's
race as each runner earned first-team All-CAC honors. Sullivan
(23:24) finished 27 seconds ahead of teammate McInerny (23:51) as
the two led the maroon and gold. The women had five runners finish
as second-team All-CAC performers as freshman Kristin
Stromberg finished eight overall with a time of 24:17,
senior Zuzka O'Zwoldike finished ninth overall
(24:26), junior Amy DeMichele finished 10th
overall (24:27), freshman Masha Berge finished
14th overall (24:42) and junior Jenn Bulger
finished 15th overall (24:43).
The Sea Gulls will return to action to Saturday, November 10, as
they travel to Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., to participate
in the NCAA Division III Mideast Regionals.
