HOLMDEL, N.J. – The Stevens Institute of Technology women's cross-country team won the season-opening Back to the Bowl Invitational on Saturday, with their five scoring runners all finishing in the Top 11 and all 10 competitors finishing among the Top 25.

Stevens finished with 39 points, 12 points clear of D-I Wagner and 37 points clear of third-place Staten Island.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Junior Isabella Gabay was the first Duck over the line, finishing second overall in 20:22.0, a new PR and less than four seconds back of the race winner. Senior Kaitlyn Adams was eighth, crossing in 22:00.1 and junior Anya Sadowski was 10^th in 22:34 flat. Sophia LaPenna showed out in her first collegiate race, crossing in 22:44 flat for 11^th, less than a second ahead of senior Kate Cen, who took 12^th, the final scorer for Stevens.
 
The rest of the 10 competing Ducks finished as follows: junior Catherine Bondi took 16^th (23:10.3), first-year Aisling McDermott finished 18^th (23:23.6), junior Allie Halverson (23:58.8) and sophomore Emily Laudman (24:21 flat) were 20th and 21^st, respectively, and sophomore Caitlyn Adamchuk was 25^th in 25:06 flat
 
INSIDE THE MEET

• The Ducks were the only team of the eight competing with four runners in the Top 10 and five runners in the Top 25

UP NEXT
The Ducks will race at 4:15 PM on September 18 in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Preview Meet in Stevenson, MD.

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