NEWVILLE, Pa. –The Haverford College women's cross country team finished second in the team race on a snowy Saturday afternoon in the Centennial Conference cross country championships, hosted by Dickinson College at Big Spring High School.

Haverford was outrun by just one squad, a Johns Hopkins team that took the title for the fourth year in a row with a team score of 43 points. The Fords finished nine points back with 52 while host Dickinson finished third (69). Haverford had finished third at the Centennial meet the previous three seasons.

Senior Emily Lipman paced the Fords Saturday over the six-kilometer course coming within one second of capturing the individual title. Lipman posted a time of 23 minutes, 44.3 seconds to finish second to Dickinson's Taylor Ludlow who clocked a winning time of 23:43.0.

Joining Lipman in first-team all-Centennial honors for the Fords was sophomore Emily Scott who was seventh.

The second through fifth Haverford runners were tightly packed following Lipman's outstanding day in the snow and muck. From Scott's time (24:42.1) through the fifth scoring Ford, sophomore Flora Berklein in 16th (25:12.8), the spread was less than 31 seconds. Between that pair were juniors Sara Hess (13th, 25:05.9) and Andrea Tocci (14th, 25:06.3).

Senior Alice Vienneau (18th, 25:21.5) and junior Sheera Rosenbaum (21st, 25:28.5) also cracked the top 25 for the Fords.

With Swarthmore College finishing sixth in the meet, Haverford's finish ahead of the Garnet earns the first point in the Hood Trophy competition between the two schools as the Fords take a 1-0 lead in the annual rivalry.

Haverford continues its season with the NCAA 2011 Mideast Regional on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Center Valley, Pa. 

Results (PDF): Team scoring | Individual scoring