KUTZTOWN – Senior Luke Valdevit paced the East Stroudsburg University men's cross country with an 11th place finish to earn First Team All-PSAC honors at the conference championships on Friday morning at Kutztown.
Racing in the 8k at the North Campus Course, the Warriors took 12th out of 16 squads in the team stranding with an average finishing time of 28:22.
Valdevit clocked a time of 26:42.7 to become just the third runner in program history to finish 11th at the conference championships. He captured All-PSAC honors for the first time in his career and joined Bill Woodring (1991) and Matt Stohl (1999) with the only eleventh place finishes.
Junior Camden Shaffer logged the next best finish for ESU in 73rd with a time of 28:34.7 and sophomore Cole Streisel was not far behind in 77th after clocking a time of 28:41.2.
Rounding out the scoring finishers for the Warriors were a pair of freshmen, Brian McGarrity in 84th with a time of 28:46.5 and Evan Wooby in 93rd after finishing in 29:05.05.
Senior Koodsha Manjaro (106th – 29:43.6), freshman Brendon Solano (110th – 29:50.1), senior Josh D'Agostino (116th – 30:09.8) and freshman Scott Zoscin (119th – 30:16.0) also competed for ESU at the PSAC Championships.
The Warriors' runners will have one final opportunity to secure a spot at the NCAA DII Atlantic Region Championships as they head to Lock Haven on Saturday Oct. 30, for the Go Fast River Run.