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Men's Cross Country

Men's Cross Country Places Second at Wilmington

Date: October 13, 2006
Location: WILMINGTON, Ohio
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The Big Red men's cross country team placed second out of 16 teams at the Wilmington College Fall Classic on Friday night.

Denison was led by a pair of top 10 finishers in Joel Bendtsen (Chillicothe, Ohio/Chillicothe) and Grant Russo (Medina, Ohio/Medina). Bendtsen placed fifth with a time of 26:15.41 over the course of the 8K run. Russo took eighth overall in 26:40.88 and Brian Gilson (Cortland, Ohio/JFK) and Clark Paciorek (Novi, Mich./Northville) were just outside the top-10 with 11th and 12th place finishes, respectively. Gilson logged a time of 27:00.50 and Paciorek crossed in 27:02.02.

Rounding out the top-five for Denison was sophomore Skylar Mosenthal (Briarcliff, N.Y./Briarcliff) who placed 22nd in 27:22.65. First-year Adam Tewahade (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit) took sixth on the squad and 28th overall with a time of 27:32.32.

This was the final warm up for the Denison men before the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships which will take place on Oct. 28 in Richmond, Va.