GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Allegheny men's cross country team continued their 2019 campaign at the 31^st Annual Gettysburg Invitational Saturday (Oct. 19).
 
The Gators had one of their top finishes of the season as they finished second overall out of the 28 teams competing.  Division-I Saint Francis won the event with a score of 57, while the Gators tallied a score of 77.
 
Freshman Owen Isham (State College, Pa./State College Area) led the way for the Gators as he finished the 8k course in 26:29.0 to finish eighth.  He was one of four Gators to finish inside of the top-16.
 
Adam Cook (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel) was only 2.8 seconds behind Isham as he placed 10^th with a time of 26:31.8.  Tim Weighart (Brookline, Mass./Brookline) was on the heels of Cook as he finished just .3 seconds behind him in 11^th-place.  Seth Conard (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/Woodridge) also cracked the top-16 as his time of 26:48.8 placed him in 16^th.
 
Alex Spiro (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg Area) rounded out the top-five for the Gators as he finished in 32^nd with a time of 27:45.4.
 
The split between the Allegheny one and Allegheny five runner was 1:16.4
 
Luke Kellett (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) finished 35^th with a time of 27:52.5 and Kevin Long (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown West) finished 56^th with a time of 28:15.2 for the sixth and seventh Gator runners.
 
The individual title went to Jason Richwall of Muhlenberg who finished with a time of 25:48.7.
 
The Gators are off until Nov. 2 when they compete at the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships in Indiana.