The Shippensburg University men’s cross country team won the Aubrey Shenk Invitational on Saturday at Gettysburg, finishing first among 44 teams with 70 points. Seven of the Raiders’ nine runners set collegiate bests in the 8K race.
Shippensburg finished 14 points ahead of Johns Hopkins. St. Bonaventure placed third with 98 points, followed by Davis & Elkins with 144 and the Georgetown Running Club with 151.
Tommy Crum Jr. won the individual race in 24:18.6, leading a field of 471 runners. His time was less than four seconds off his personal best and 38 seconds faster than his performance at the Paul Short Run two weeks earlier.
Julian Clark, Seth Reichenbach and Ben Hummel finished consecutively in 13th through 15th place. Clark ran 25:10.5, Reichenbach finished in 25:11.0, and Hummel crossed in 25:13.3. All three set collegiate bests.
Ryan Gourley completed Shippensburg’s scoring group in 27th place with a collegiate-best time of 25:28.2.
Jackson Gutekunst placed 30th in 25:30.0, Brennan Wellock finished 34th in 25:36.3, and Ramon Urena took 42nd in 25:49.6. Each recorded a collegiate best. Davey Johnson finished 163rd in 27:14.4.
The meet was Shippensburg’s first appearance at Gettysburg since 2018 and its final competition of the regular season. The Raiders will compete at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Bloomsburg.
