Final Results

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. – The Roberts Wesleyan University women's cross country team opened its season with a fourth-place finish at the Daemen Alumni Invitational Saturday morning at Bassett Park.

"Today doesn't tell us a whole lot, but we checked the boxes that we needed to check," Roberts Director of Cross Country & Track and Field Andrew Dorr said. "We just wanted to go out and run the course and run it in groups of runners."

Junior Rachel Horner-Richardson was the top finisher for the Redhawks, completing the 5k course, which will be the site of the East Coast Conference Championship Oct. 26, in 19:48.5 to place seventh. Classmate Lydia Roselund was right on her shoulder, finishing ninth in 19:49.2.

The race marked the Roberts debut of five first-year runners – Paige Reeser, Zoe Maupin, Kennedy Mitchell, Amelia Mickelson and Evelyn Schmit – who finished 21^st through 25^th.

Other finishers for Roberts were junior Gianna Tribotte (27^th), sophomore Jessica Montemorano (37^th) and junior Kaitlyn Goodwin (38^th).

The Redhawks return to action on Sept. 28 for the Harry F. Anderson Invitational on Homecoming Weekend.