Sept. 20, 2009

Men's Results | Women's Results

BOSTON - All-American Andrea Walkonen won her second race in as many weeks, taking home a 50-second victory at the BU Invitational held at Franklin Park Sunday afternoon. Walkonen completed the 5K course in 17:40, giving her a second victory on the young season after taking home the title at last week's America East Pre-Championship meet in Williston, Vt.

The Terriers took on Brown, LaSalle, Marist and Northeastern at the invitational and ended up winning two head-to-head matchups. BU fell narrowly to Brown, 30-26, and to Northeastern, 31-26, but defeated Marist, 25-30, and handled the Huskies by a score of 16-46.

Sophomore Katie Matthews was the next Terrier to cross the line, finishing with a time of 18:32, good enough for fourth place. Junior Kathleen Davies was just six seconds back of Matthews at 18:38 and finished in 11th-place, while senior Sarah Mosser ran a 19th-best time of 18:57. Other top finishers for BU included freshman Marita Stressenger (19:40, 31st), sophomore Anna Lukes (19:54, 36th), and freshman Tenny Ostrem (20:16, 46th).

On the men's side, junior Eric Ashe followed up his win last week with a second place finish at Franklin Park. Ashe completed the 8K race in 25:07, just 12 seconds back of Marist's Adam Vess, who took the individual title with a time of 24:55. The men's team also took home two wins in the meet, downing Northeastern 17-46 and Brown 29-30.

Junior Craig MacPherson was BU's next finisher, crossing the line in 8th-position with a time of 25:22. Sophomore Peter Gilmore ran a time of 25:26 for a 13th-place finish and senior David Polgar (26:26), sophomore Joe Greenspun (26:27) and junior James Weider finished 35th, 36th and 37th, respectively, to round out BU's scorers.

The Terriers are back in action at Franklin Park on October 10, as they host the New England Championship on their home course.