HAVERFORD, Pa. - The Haverford College men's cross country team had another very strong showing at its Alumni/Open race with 32 alumni returning for the team's annual kickoff meet last Saturday afternoon on campus.
Saturday's alumni/open race featured a total of 63 runners between the varsity, alumni and open entrants into the field. Ryan Kredell put forth an impressive season debut to capture the overall title, with a time of 14:42.5 to pace the field. In fact, the first eight finishers were all from the varsity squad, a sign of strong things to come from an experienced Haverford roster poised to make some noise in the postseason races after capturing both the Centennial Conference and Metro Regional championships a year ago.
Max Brelig (14:58.3), Peter LaRochelle (15:01.6), Aaron Bratt (15:02.8), Nathaniel Leighninger (15:07.7), Miles Colescott (15:19.4), Reza Eshghi (15:21.9), and Jamie Moreland (15:22.8) all finished ahead of the top Alumni finisher, David Watt '20 (15:23.4).
The complete team of alumni finishers included: David Watt '20, Matt Katz '22, Jordan Schilit '13, Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe '18, Peter Kurtz '19, Greg Morgan '19, Scott Kaiser '22, Charlie Hale '17, Ian Woodhouse '19, Jack Hunter '21, Matt Willig '18, Jason Tripp '94, James Barker '20, Jacob Gaba '22, Ben Siqueiros '12, Karl Paranya '97, Anthony Belber '95, Aryn Davis '97, Bryan Ray '94, Brian Peabody '92, Jon Berenbom '94, Steve Petro '00, Tuomi Forrest '92, Marc Balcer '96, Rob Wingate '91, Paul Song '83, Nate Suter '95, Andrew Eldredge-Martin '01, Dan Rafferty '94, Matt Leighninger '92, and Will Brennan '91.
A complete list of the day's results is linked at the top of this page. The varsity squad returns to action at the Main Line Invitational on Friday, September 16. The men's race will start at 5:30 p.m. on the Alumni Cross Country Course.