HAVERFORD, Pa. – Senior Charlie Marquardt of the Haverford College men's cross country team was selected as the Centennial Conference Co-Runner of the Week, the conference announced today. It's the senior fifth career cross country weekly honor and third this season.
Marquardt was the first to cross the finish line (24:40) at the Rowan Inter-Regional Battle Border, eight seconds in front of Ernie Pitone of Widener. The returning Centennial Conference Runner of the Year has won five of the last seven races he's entered. His time was just four seconds shy of his personal best mark.
Haverford had the lowest total among the 24 teams entered in the Battle Border with 62 points. The Fords had their top five runners among the first 21 finishers in the 231-person event. TCNJ was second with 98 points, followed by Elizabethtown (132), Geneseo St. (151) and Ramapo (159). Centennial Conference rival, Dickinson, was seventh with Swarthmore (16th) and Johns Hopkins (19th) also participating in the event.
The senior captain shared the weekly honor with Jaryd Flank of Muhlenberg. Flank won the Gettysburg Invitational by nine seconds on Saturday.
The Fords will host the Haverford Invitational at the Alumni Cross Country Course next Friday at 5 p.m. before traveling to Stevenson for the Centennial Conference Championship on Halloween (Oct. 31).