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Men’s XC Team Closes Season at AMCC Championships

Release Date:
October 28, 2006
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PAINESVILLE, OH – The Hilbert College men’s cross country team braved wind, rain, and plenty of mud on Saturday while competing at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championships (AMCC). Frostburg State’s Curt Ruble finished first at the 8K course at Eleanor B. Garfield Park to help lead the Bobcats to the team title.

Hilbert College was paced by Tom D’Arcy (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) who finished 59th out of 65 competitors in a time 45:48. The Hawks were short-handed on the afternoon and finished in 10th place with an incomplete team.

RESULTS

1 Frostburg State 31

2 Penn State Behrend 46

3 Penn State Altoona 81

4 University of Pitt-Greensburg 85

5 Mount Aloysius College 165

6 University of Pitt-Bradford 185

7 Lake Erie College 191

8 La Roche College 227

9 Medaille College 241

10 Hilbert Inc

Hilbert Finishers

59th Tom D’Arcy 45:48

61st John Arns 49:44

63rd Lamont Moreno 50:19


Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.