BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Junior
Gavin Mogck's third-place individual finish set the pace for seven Hawks finishing inside the top 15 as the Saint Joseph's men's cross country team opened the 2025 season with a first-place finish at the Lehigh Invitational on Friday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Mogck crossed the line in third, finishing the 6K race in 18:16.2, a tenth of a second off his personal best.
Andrea Botteon was four seconds behind in sixth place.
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Michael Glavin blasted his personal best out of the water, shaving more than 30 seconds off his best 6K time with a ninth-place finish in 18:22.2.
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Jay Shanahan led a kettle of four Hawks to cross the line within seven and a half seconds of one another. Shanahan's 18:29.2 was good for 12
th, with
Will Rau closing out the scorers in 13
th with a time of 18:34.4.
Ryan Cichocki was just behind in 14
th with a new personal best of 18:35.7, while
Brendan Hefferan's 18:36.5 placed him 15
th; Hefferan also shattered his own personal best by more than 45 seconds.
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Matt Hoffman and
Josh Forrest placed inside the top 20 as well, with Hoffman in 17th at 18:39.0 and Forrest less than three seconds behind in 20
th, both in new personal bests.
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Ian Romea's 18:43.6 set a new personal best in a 24
th-place finish, while
Jack Bolling turned in a 19:00.9 for 35
th.
Evan McGregor was 40
th with a time of 19:04.8.
• Elijah Stoudt's 19:27.2 pipped teammate
Jackson Kane by a half-second, while
Anthony Gargani posted a 19:33.2 and
Christian Napoli a 20:17.9 to round out the Hawk entries.
NEWS AND NOTES
• The Hawks finished with 43 points on the day, 13 points ahead of second-place Bucknell. Villanova was third with 57; Lehigh came in fourth with 107, Moravian was fifth at 114, and DeSales brought up the rear with 160.
• SJU's scorers turned in an average time of 18:25 to lead the field in that category as well.
• Friday's meet marked the third year in a row that Saint Joseph's topped the Lehigh Invitational Field.
UP NEXT
The Hawks will compete in the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational at Penn State on September 12.
