Saturday, Oct. 13, the Elizabethtown College cross country teams competed in the Inter-Regional Border Battle Championship and Open hosted by Rowan University.

The men’s team took 12th place in the open and 15th in the Championship. Junior Samuel Gerstenbacher was Etown’s top finisher. In the open, first-year Blake Samsel and senior Darren Labenberg were the top two Blue Jays runners, finishing in the top 100. In the Championships, Gerstenbacher was 11th overall out of 394 runners and dropped his 8k time down by 30 seconds to 25:20.4.

The women’s team took ninth in the open race and were 17th in the Division III Championships. First-year Brooklyne Wiley led in the 6k open race and took over a minute off her time, finishing in 25:37.9. Sophomore O’Livia McIntosh set a new personal record in the race and finished in 25:43.4, beating the 26-minute mark for the first time.

The teams will compete at the Lebanon Valley College (LVC) Last Chance Run Fast Invitational Friday, Oct. 19.