Negreann Earns All-Landmark Honors by Placing Seventh

Goucher Finishes Five Points Behind Merchant Marine in Sixth

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Goucher's Joey Negreann (Denver, Colo./Cherry Creek) was the seventh runner overall to cross the finish line today at the 2011 Landmark Conference Men's Cross Country Championships, making him an all-conference performer for the third year in a row.

The senior completed the race, which was shortened from its scheduled 8,000-meters due to a tree falling from the heavy wet snow and blocking a portion of the course, in 25:09.5.

Negreann and the six runners who finished ahead of him, including the individual champion, Ian Quinlan from Susquehanna, were accorded first-team All-Landmark Conference honors. The next seven runners after Negreann were designated as the second team.

Quinlan's winning time was 24:23.3, which was 1.5 seconds faster than the runner and defending champion, Matthew Lutcza from Moravian.

The next runners from Goucher to finish the race after Negreann were Nick Manta (North Wales, Pa./Abington Friends School), Troy Browne (Springdale, Md./C.H. Flowers) and Hugh Geller (Devens, Mass./Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School). Manta posted a time of 26:47.8, good for 22nd place in a field of 82 runners, while Browne (27:39.9) and Geller (27:42.6) were 42nd and 45th, respectively.

As a team, the Gophers placed sixth, just five points behind the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Moravian ended Susquehanna's four-year reign as Landmark Conference champions by finishing in first place with a team score of 38 points. The Crusaders were second with 49 points, followed by Scranton in third (55 points), Juniata in fourth (120), Merchant Marine in fifth (154), Goucher in sixth (159), Drew in seventh (168) and Catholic in eighth (172).