CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – The Haverford College women's cross country team raced into the NCAA championship meet with a team fourth-place finish, securing an at-large bid on Nov.12 at the 2011 NCAA Mideast Regional hosted by DeSales University.
Senior Emily Lipman led the way with a seventh-place finish on the six-kilometer course with a time of 22 minutes, 46 seconds. Dickinson College's Taylor Ludman, the 2011 Centennial Conference individual champion, captured the individual regional crown clocking a winning time of 22:33.
Haverford posted a team score of 120 points Saturday for its fourth-place finish. Johns Hopkins University, the Centennial's 2011 team champion, won the regional title with 78 points while Dickinson (99 points) earned the other automatic team bid into the national event with its second-place regional finish. Elizabethtown College (108 pts.) was third.
Also cracking the top-15 for Haverford was junior Andrea Tocci who was 14th in a time of 23:30. Sophomore Emily Scott (26th, 23:55), senior Alice Vienneau (34th, 24:02) and sophomore Flora Berklein (39th, 24:13) rounded out the scoring places for the Fords.
Lipman, Tocci, Scott and Vienneau earned all-region (top-35) nods with their performances.
The Fords learned early on Monday that they had been extended a team at-large bid to the meet hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.