Oct. 26, 2001

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The eighth-ranked Providence College men's cross country team and the eighth-ranked Providence women's cross country team each earned a third-place finish at the BIG EAST Cross Country Championship on October 26 at Van Cortlandt Park in New York, N.Y. Notre Dame (49 points) won the men's race and Georgetown (36 points) captured the women's race.

Running without two of their top runners, senior Paul Reilly (Loughrea, Ireland) and junior Adam Sutton (Preston, England), the men's squad (54 points) finished just five points behind Notre Dame and just two points behind second-place Villanova (52 points). Senior Hamish Thorpe (Auckland, New Zealand) was PC's top male finisher as he placed third in a time of 24:28 to earn All-BIG EAST accolades. Senior Dermot Galvin of Kilrush, Ireland (10th - 25:02) also earned a top-10 finish as he placed 10th in a time of 25:02. Providence received strong performances from three freshmen who all scored for the Friars. Freshmen Patrick Moulton of Pelham, N.H. (12th - 25:07), Dylan Wykes of Kingston, Ontario (13th - 25:13) and Patrick Guidera of Clonmel, Ireland (16th - 25:23) rounded out the scoring for the Friars. In addition to Thorpe, Galvin, Moulton and Wykes all earned All-BIG EAST honors.

On the women's side, PC scored 73 points to finish third behind Boston College (53 points) and Georgetown (36 points). Senior Claire Shearman (Portsmouth, N.H.) was the Friars' top female runner, placing sixth in a time of 20:41. She was followed by junior Roisin McGettigan (Wicklow, Ireland), who placed ninth (20:58). Shearman and McGettigan each were named All-BIG EAST. Senior Kathryn Casserly of Galway, Ireland (17th - 21:16), freshman Deidre Byrne of Avoca, Ireland (19th - 21:27), and junior Emer O'Shea of Limerick, Ireland (22nd - 21:36) also scored for Providence.

The men's and women's teams return to action on Nov. 10 at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass.

MEN'S RESULTS Top 10 - Distance: Cross Country
1.	Dan Wilson	Connecticut	24:22
2.	Luke Watson	Notre Dame	24:22
3.	Hamish Thorpe	Providence	24:28
4.	Adrian Blincoe	Villanova	24:31
5.	Ryan Hayden	Villanova	24:34
6.	Jonathan Fasulo	Villanova	24:42
7.	Tom Parlapiano	Villanova	24:43
8.	Todd Mobley	Notre Dame	24:47
9.	Marc Striowski	Notre Dame	24:48
10.	Dermot Galvin	Providence	25:02

12.	Patrick Moulton	Providence	25:07
13.	Dylan Wykes	Providence	25:13
16.	Patrick Guidera	Providence	25:23
17.	Tyler McCabe	Providence	25:25
68.	Michael Myers	Providence	27:14



MEN'S TEAM SCORES-
1. Notre Dame	        49
2. Villanova	        52
3. Providence	        54
4. Georgetown	        106
5. Connecticut	        163
6. West Virginia	168
7. Virginia Tech	225
8. Boston College	233
9. Seton Hall	        302
10. Rutgers	        304
11. Pittsburgh	        308
12. St. John's 	        316
13. Miami	        346
14. Syracuse	        357



WOMEN'S RESULTS Top 10 - Distance: Cross Country
1. 	Catherine Guiney	Boston College	20:04
2.	Marni Krippa	        Georgetown	20:27
3.	Megan Guiney	        Boston College	20:33
4.	Jill Laurendeau	        Georgetown	20:37
5.	Maria Cicero	        Boston College	20:37
6.	Claire Shearman	        Providence	20:41
7.	Jennifer Handley	Notre Dame	20:45
8.	Erin Sicher	        Georgetown	20:50
9.	Roisin McGettigan	Providence	20:58
10.	Nicole Lee	        Georgetown	20:59

17.	Kathryn Casserly	Providence	21:16
19.	Deidre Byrne	        Providence	21:27
22.	Emer O'Shea	        Providence	21:36
38.	Roisin Quinn	        Providence	22:28
39.	Marissa Colburn	        Providence	22:31
62.	Jessica Romaniuk	Providence	23:20



WOMEN'S TEAM SCORES-
1. Georgetown	        36
2. Boston College	53
3. Providence	        73
4. Notre Dame	        107
5. Villanova	        112
6. Virginia Tech	194
7. Pittsburgh	        203
8. Connecticut	        215
9. West Virginia	237
10. Syracuse	        306
11. Rutgers	        318
12. Miami	        377
13. Seton Hall	        391
14. St. John's 	        393