Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Raptor women place sixth at Jack Saint Clair Memorial race

10/8/2023 12:17:00 AM

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (Oct. 7, 2023) – The Rutgers University-Camden women's cross country team placed sixth of 10 scoring teams as the Scarlet Raptors competed Saturday at the Jack Saint Clair Memorial Cross Country Race.
 
The race was held at the Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.
 
The Raptor women scored 173 points, while the Rutgers-Camden men ran only four runners.
 
The Liberty Track Club won the women's 6K race with 15 points, led by Veronica Eder, who won the 74-woman race in a time of 21:34.1.
 
Rutgers-Camden sophomore co-captain Isabella Bordon led the team in a time of 31:27.7 to finish 39th overall. Freshman Xochitl Bautista-Castelan finished 41st in a time of 32:18.1, while freshman Lindsay Lopez Trejo was 44th (32:30.9).
 
Freshman Tiffany Chan placed 53rd in a time of 35:27.1, while freshman Kaitlyn Novak finished 65th (41:28.5) and freshman Mya Cabanas Montero was 67th (42:25.7).
 
The Rutgers-Camden men ran only four runners in the men's 8K race, which was won by the Philadelphia Runner Track Club with 24 points. Milan Duka of UNAB was the individual winner in the 88-man race in a time of 27:08.1.
 
Graduate student David Morrow led the Raptors and finished 37th in a time of 32:31.6, while his fellow co-captain, grad student Miguel Angel Gisone, finished 58th in a time of 35:13.3. Sophomore Walter Pierce placed 75th (38:05.9) and freshman Angel Chaj was 86th (49:48.4).
 
The Scarlet Raptors will return to action on Wednesday in meet at Cairn University in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The women's 6K race starts at 3 p.m., while the men run an 8K race at 4 p.m.