IUP Women Finish Fourth at Penn State's Spiked Shoe Invitational

Women's Results
Men's Results

The IUP women's team finished in fourth place behind only three Division I schools at the Spiked Shoe Invitational hosted by Penn State on Saturday.

IUP had a total of 125 points, just six shy of third place St. Joseph's.  Penn State won the meet with 25 points and Columbia was second with 43.

Rounding out the field behind the Crimson Hawks were St. Francis (136), Felician and Howard (both at 219) and Niagara (271).

Erica Hoffman was the top non-Division I runner, finishing 22nd overall with a time of 23:16 on the 6K course.  Maureen Newell also placed in the top 30, taking 26th in 23:27.

Stacie Stockard was 34th (23:51), Laura Blaesser was 45th (24:26), Bridget Connolly was 55th (24:33), Marissa Butler was 58th (24:52) and Tatyana Maltseva was 59th (24:52).

On the men's side, IUP was placed 10th with 252 points.  Columbia won with 24, followed by Penn State with 35.

Nate Shelly was 22nd with a time of 28:00 on the 8K course.  He was followed by Ben Shinsky (29:20), Luke Snyder (30:31), Kyle Hills (30:46) and Ben Havko (30:59).

IUP was competing without No. 2 runner Bobby Boston.

The Crimson Hawks return to action next Saturday at the Slippery Rock Invitational.