NEWVILLE, Pa. - The Haverford College men's cross country team qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship with its first place finish at the Mideast Regional at Big Spring High School hosted by Dickinson College on Saturday.
Senior Charlie Marquardt won his second consecutive individual title at the regional race with a time of 25:14.8, nine seconds in front of Muhlenberg's Jaryd Flank. The senior is on an incredible run, having won the last four races he's entered and six of the last eight events.
Haverford's average time (25:48.9) was eight seconds quicker than second place Elizabethtown. The defending regional champion Carnegie Mellon placed third with 98 points. Johns Hopkins was fourth, followed by Widener. Swarthmore (seventh) and Dickinson were the other Centennial Conference schools in the top ten.