FOREST, Va. --- Weather canceled one event for ODAC cross country runners with the annual Hagan Stone Classic lost to the rain, but that didn't keep conference athletes from competing -- and placing well -- at three other high profile meets. Those included the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University on Friday afternoon along with Saturday's Mike Woods Invitational at SUNY-Geneseo and Don Cathcart Invitational hosted by Salisbury University.
Earning this week's ODAC Runner of the Week awards are both go Lynchburg athletes following outstanding showings in fields in upwards of 380 competitors. Kelsey Lagunas posted the second-fastest 6K time in Lynchburg women's cross country history, while Frank Csorba became the first men's competitor to break 24-minutes on an 8K course in ODAC history. Both established the fastest times in the ODAC at those distances this season.
Below are entries for both winners from today's cross country release. Most weeks this fall, the following schedule will be used for awards reporting:
- Sundays: football (thru 11/13/22)
- Mondays: field hockey, soccer, swimming (begins on 10/10/22), volleyball, wrestling (when it begins)
- Tuesdays: cross country
- Wednesday: golf
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MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
Frank Csorba | Lynchburg | Sr.
Csorba, a senior from Boydton, Va., picks up his second ODAC weekly honor of the season following a blistering pace into the ODAC and Lynchburg record books at the Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University. Csorba finished fourth overall and first among Division III competitors in the brown race, posting an eight-kilometer time of 23:56.0 buoyed by a 4:48.3 per-mile pace. His overall time was the second-fastest (23:14.7 - Alex Phillip, John Carroll University) of all Division III athletes in the entire Paul Short Run meet, which featured four men's 8K races and 1,692 total men's runners. Csorba's time is not only the fastest 8K in the ODAC this season, but it is the first sub 24-minute 8K time in ODAC and Lynchburg history.
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WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
Kelsey Lagunas | Lynchburg | Sr.
Lagunas, a senior from Johnstown, Colo., registered the fastest time on a six-kilometer course in the ODAC this season following a strong showing in the brown race at the Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University. Lagunas finished 27th overall and ninth among Division III competitors in a 383-person field. She used a pace of 5:51.7 per mile to registered a 6K time of 21:51.2. That ranks as the second-fastest 6K time in Lynchburg women's cross country history. It is also the fastest time in the ODAC this season.
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