PRINCESS ANNE, Md. -It was a beautiful day in Princess Anne, Maryland for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Cross Country meet hosted by Maryland Eastern Shore. More than 40 total teams competed in the regional event to determine the teams and runners that would advance to the NCAA National Championship.

Maryland Eastern Shore was one of eight sites across the United States that hosted regional meets. UMES also hosted the regional in 2009. The top two teams and top 25 runners advance to the championship.

Villanova took first place in the women's race with a total of 57 points, while West Virginia finished second with 64 points. Villanova's Sheila Reid finished first with a time of 21:32.7.

Villanova also took second in the men's race with Georgetown finishing first with 47 points. Villanova finished with 63 points. Donn Cabral of Princeton finished first in a time of 30:30.3, while runners Ryan Sheridan of Villanova and Alexander

Lundy from Georgetown finished second and third respectively.

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Norfolk State Finishes in 20^th place at NCAA Southeast Regional

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Norfolk State men's cross country team placed 20th out of 32 teams on Saturday morning at the NCAA Southeast Regional meet hosted by the University of Louisville.

Senior Josef Tessema was the Spartans' top finisher on the 10-kilometer course. He finished 53rd overall out of 218 runners. Tessema clocked a time of 31 minutes, 32.6 seconds. Fellow senior Amos Kipkosgei was the next-highest NSU finisher, placing 122nd (119th toward the team total) in 33:00.00. Philemon Kimutai made it a Spartan senior sweep of the team's top three slots, as he placed 127th (124th in team points) in 33:04.6.

First-year sophomores Damtew Adnew and Nathnael Meseret rounded out NSU's top five. Adnew was 128th overall (125th in team points) in 33:05.9, and Meseret was 150th (146th in team points) 33:43.4.

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Bethune-Cookman's Dunkley Finishes 78th at NCAA South Cross Country Regional

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The NCAA South Cross Country Regional meet opened Saturday morning, hosted by the University of Alabama. One Wildcat was among the very substantial crowd of 191 competing athletes. Junior Kadian Dunkley wrapped up her season with a 78th place Regional finish at the meet.

A Brooklyn, N.Y. native, Dunkley moved from the role of contender to champion recently, when she took her top-ten conference ranking and blew it right out of the water with a big win at the MEAC Cross Country Championships, taking the overall individual title, earning All-MEAC status, and granting access to the Regional meet.

Though most regular season races are a 5k distance, the Championships run a 6k course; a distance Dunkley had. With a changing topography on Alabama's course, Dunkley was able to run a career best 22:32.1, earning her 78th place in the Regional meet.

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