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Sports News: Fall 2000

Tuesday, October 31, 2000

MORAVIAN WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY REMAINS 8TH IN NATION

BETHLEHEM, PA --- With its eighth straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championship last Saturday, the Moravian College women's cross country team remained eighth in the nation in this week's NCAA Division III national poll.

The Greyhounds have won six of the seven meets they have run in this season and placed second in the other race.  Moravian is also 3-0 in dual meets.

Junior Heidi Wolfsberger (Moosic/Riverside HS) won her second straight MAC Individual Championship last weekend and she also has placed first in two other competitions.  Junior Emily Shertzer (Hummelstown/Lower Dauphin HS) has captured first place three times this season.  Wolfsberger and Shertzer have been followed by junior Kim Jaick (Coopersburg/Southern Lehigh HS), junior Erin Boyle (Philadelphia/ Nazareth Academy) and senior Hannah Wood (Palm/Upper Perkiomen HS).  All five of Moravian's top runners have finished in the top 40 of each race this fall and were in the top ten of the MAC meet.

The Greyhounds will take this weekend off as they prepare for the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional at Dickinson College on Saturday, November 11th.

 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Rankings - Oct. 30, 2000

Rank

Team (first place votes)

Region

Points

Last Week

Best Rank in 2000

1.

Middlebury College (8)

New England

200

1

1

2.

Calvin College

Great Lakes

192

2

2

3.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Midwest

184

3

3

4.

St. Olaf College

Central

174

4

4

5.

Williams College

New England

168

5

3

6.

Luther College

Central

161

6

5

7.

Baldwin Wallace College

Great Lakes

151

7

7

8.

Moravian College

Mideast

143

8

8

9.

Ithaca College

Atlantic

135

9

9

10.

Wartburg College

Central

131

10

10

11.

SUNY-Geneseo

Atlantic

115

11

9

12.

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Midwest

108

16

7

13.

College of New Jersey

Atlantic

101

14

5

14.

Hamilton College

Atlantic

90

12

6

15.

Brandeis University

New England

88

15

11

16.

University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse

Midwest

86

13

7

17.

Loras College

Central

64

19

12

18.

Elmhurst College

Midwest

55

22

22

T19.

Amherst College

New England

53

17

9

T19.

Washington (MO) University

Midwest

53

18

15

21.

Willamette University

West

51

20

20

22.

Nebraska Wesleyan

Central

29

21

17

23.

Connecticut College

New England

24

T23

23

24.

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

West

23

T23

17

25.

DePauw College

Great Lakes 

7

25

25


Others receiving votes: St. Lawrence University (6), Concordia-Moorhead College (6), Emory University (2)