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UB Men Win Stampede Cross Country Invite

Men's results

Women's results

GRAND ISLAND, NY – The University at Buffalo men’s cross country team won the UB Stampede Invitational team title on Saturday as both the men's and women's teams hosted the lone home meet of the season. UB's men scored 22 points to hold off second place Colgate's 36 to take the team title. The UB women finished second to Colgate, scoring 38 points to the Raiders' 23. Temperatures were in the mid-70s with a strong breeze blowing along the course that borders the Niagara River.

Dan Giza

Senior Dan Giza (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) won the men's overall individual race in a time of 26:14.6 for the 8K course at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Giza moved past second-place finisher Lyle Tolli of Colgate (26:25.5) at the two-mile mark and opened the lead for the remainder of the race, winning by more than 10 seconds.

UB's Jason Ayr (Westfield, MA/Westfield) took third place in 26:37.4. The Bulls claimed the fifth through eighth spots to clinch the team title. Freshman Ryan Bloom (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport) finished fifth in 26:56.7 with Dan Healy (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West) sixth in 27:05.6. Jesse Mang (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) was seventh in 27:08.9 and Jacob Hagen (Amherst, NY/Sweet Home) rounded out the scorers for the Bulls with his eighth-place finish in 27:12.7.

Mary Veith

In the women's 5K race, junior Mary Veith (Derby, NY/Lake Shore) completed the course in 18:39.6, winning the race by more than 20 seconds over the next scoring runner, Colgate's Stacey Marion, who finished third overall in 19:00.6. Veith moved ahead of unattached runner Allison Carr about halfway through the race and increased her margin over the final distance.

Joining Veith among the UB scorers was sophomore Nicole Soblosky (Colonie, NY/Colonie) in fifth place in 19:27.6. Freshman Megan Niblock (Amherst, NY/Sweet Home) was 15th overall in 20:34.9.

The Bulls travel to Bethlehem, PA for their next meet, the Paul Short Invitational, on Friday, September 28 at 1:00 pm.

Team scores

Men: UB 22, Colgate 36, Erie CC 88, Hilbert 107.

Women: Colgate 23, UB 38, D'Youville 89, Medaille 116, Hilbert 137.