Mountain Hawks Put Three In High 15 at Lehigh Invitational

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh’s girls’s cross nation group started their season on the Goodman Campus for Friday night’s Lehigh Invitational. The Mountain Hawks took third place towards a subject that included Moravian, DeSales, West Virginia, Bucknell, Muhlenberg, and Saint Joseph’s. The Mountain Hawks solely fell eight factors behind second place West Virginia, nevertheless it was Patriot League rival Buckell that stole the present with the meet’s prime 4 finishers.

Lehigh’s first finisher got here in fifth place total, as first-year Zoë Louis opened up her collegiate profession with bang. Her time of 21:55.2 locations her within the prime group of Lehigh’s girls’s squad. 

“I think Zoe Louis went right off the start and put her nose right in it and ran with some really top dogs,” stated head coach Debbie Utesch. “I think it was a really good first time out for 6,000 meters for her.” 

Sophomore Sadie Millett was the second Mountain Hawk to complete, rounding out the meet’s prime ten finishers. Millett began off the season with a 20 second private greatest, crossing the road at 22:29.6. Sophomore Kaya Meler was the third Mountain Hawk to complete, and the third Mountain Hawk to set a brand new collegiate greatest, ending in 22:37.7 (fifteenth). 

First-year Courtney Cane (twentieth, 22:49.5) and junior Devon Sutton (twenty second, 22:52.0) had been the following two Lehigh runners to complete, beginning off their seasons with strong performances. Rounding out Lehigh’s prime seven and the occasion’s prime thirty, had been first-years Emma Hyde (23:11.1) and Katelyn Nolan (23:33.2), who got here in twenty fifth and thirtieth place, respectively. 

When requested about her ideas on the season opener, Utesch had this to say: 

“This gave some women a chance that maybe were not necessarily top seven people last year to jump up at a pretty high level for us today. I’m pretty excited about the women’s side when we put the whole squad together.”

That alternative will come when Lehigh might be again competing on the Goodman Campus in two weeks for his or her subsequent meet. The Mountain Hawks will face off towards Lafayette in The Rivalry on Saturday, September thirteenth.