At its final meet before the America East conference championships, the Binghamton men’s and women’s cross country teams put together the squad’s best performance of the season at the Vermont Fall Foliage Invite on Sunday. Racing on the course that will host the AE championship meet next month, BU brought home every individual and team title possible, highlighted by a commanding sweep of the podium in the men’s 8k.
“Certainly, the reason we came up here was to get a race on the conference course,” said Binghamton head coach Annette Acuff. “We were very focused today. We executed really well. I’m just really pleased overall with both efforts and focus on both sides.”
On the women’s side of the action, junior Sydney Leitner secured her first career collegiate victory by crossing the line in 17:53.8 to beat her Catamount rival to the line by four seconds for the win. Also clocking in the top 10 in the team’s winning effort were freshman Anna Gansrow in sixth with a time of 18:18.8, and senior Jennifer Mui in ninth with a time of 18:25.7. Also inside the top 20 were the duo of sophomore Vicky Mordvinova and graduate student Molly FitzGibbons with respective time cards of 18:33.7 and 18:37.0 to finish 15th and 16th. These collective efforts gave BU a two-point margin over hosting Vermont to take the women’s 5k team title…