Bulls Show Signs of Depth at the Canisius Alumni Challenge

Saturday, October 19

Buffalo, NY

12:00 PM

Canisius Alumni Challenge

Bulls Show Signs of Depth at the Canisius Alumni Challenge

10/19/2019 3:08:00 PM | Cross Country

BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo cross country teams visited local Delaware Park Golf Course where they raced in the annual Canisius College Alumni Challenege. This race gave the Bulls' depth chart a solid outing to gain experience.

In the first race of the day, the women's team claimed ninth place out of 13 teams. Rachel Barich led the way for the Bulls as she finished the 5k race in 19:54.3, good for 30^th place. Right behind Barich was Samantha Vetter who finished in 42^nd place (20:17.3) and Saroja Rao who claimed 52^nd place (20:38.6). Rounding out the Bulls' top-five were Megan Kane (78^th place – 21:40.6) and Marlee Shaffer (95^th place – 22:18.9).

In the men's 8k race, Ryan Buzby led the charge for the Bulls as he ran a collegiate career-best 25:50.3, good for eighth place. Alex Hislop finished in 25^th place in a time of 26:36.3. Leon Atkins (45^th place – 27:02.0), Michael Hannon (54^th place – 27:17.5) and Dhiren Dhamecha (70^th place – 27:49.3) rounded out the top-five for the Bulls. Honorable mention to Nicholas Tobani as he finished with a career-best 8k time of 28:22.8, for 88^th place.

The Bulls will travel to Ithaca, NY for the Reif Memorial Run hosted by Cornell. The race is set to start at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25.

For complete men's results, click here. For complete women's results, click here.