BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Yale women's cross country team took third out of 37 teams in the College Gold 6K at Lehigh's Paul Short Run Friday. The Bulldogs, led by senior Hebe Chadwick (ninth, 20:46.2), totaled 144 points. Penn also finished with 144 points but won the head-to-head tiebreaker with Yale for second. Liberty won the meet with 115 points.
 
This was Yale's best finish at this meet since winning it in 2018 (118 pts.).
 
Yale, ranked No. 12 in the Northeast Region heading into the meet, finished ahead of all six other teams that were ranked in the Northeast top 15. That included:

• No. 7 Army West Point (fifth, 193 pts.)
• No. 9 Cornell (18th, 506 pts.)
• No. 10 UMass (fourth, 148 pts.)
• No. 11 Quinnipiac (21st, 567 pts.)
• No. 14 Maine (29th, 785 pts.)
• No. 15 Brown (12th, 322 pts.)

 

• Full Results

 
The Bulldogs:

• Senior Hebe Chadwick (ninth, 20:46.2) was Yale's top finisher for the second race in a row.
• Sophomore Phoebe Benun (16th, 21:07.9) was second on the team.
• First-years Anna Prusak (28th, 21:22.3) and Naomi Douglas (34th, 21:27.3) were separated by five seconds.
• Junior Zoe Martonfi (57th, 21:42.6) was Yale's final scorer. 
• Senior Daniella Henderson (90th, 22:02.8) and junior Sylvie Sanok Dufallo (178th, 22:53.1) rounded out Yale's top seven.

 
Notes:

• Friday's third-place finish represents a dramatic improvement from the Bulldogs' finish at this meet last year (14th, 443 pts.).
• In the open women's 6K earlier in the day, junior Muriel Lovshin was Yale's top finisher (14th, 22:06.2).

 
Up Next:

• Yale will compete at the ECAC Championships on Saturday, Oct. 17, in Bethpage, N.Y.