ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY
Saturday, November 14, 1998

ETOWN FINISHES 18TH OUT OF 40 AT NCAA MIDEAST REGIONALS

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. --- Jen Olmstead finished 42nd out of 278 runners to pace the Elizabethtown women's cross country team to an 18th-place finish out of 40 teams at the NCAA Mideast Regionals on Saturday at Allentown College.

Olmstead, who became the Jays' first all-Conference runner since 1994 at the MAC championships two weeks ago, finished the regional race in a time of 20:25.66, just 13 seconds and seven places shy of attaining all-Region status.

Also finishing in the Top 100 for the Blue Jays were Gretchen Junko (61st) and Allison Felty (63rd).  Lori VanOrder (150th) and Janet Lalino (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) (237th) rounded out Etown's top five finishers.

Etown women's individual finishers (278 total runners):
42. Jen Olmstead, 20:25.66, 61. Gretchen Junko, 20:53.73, 63. Allison Felty, 20:54.50, 150. Lori VanOrder, 22:02.17, 237. Janet Lalino, 24:25.58, 238. Robyn Belek, 24:30.47, 251. Kathy Valeo, 25:11.44.

Women's Team Scores
1.  Carnegie Mellon (71)
2.  College of New Jersey (84)
3.  Moravian (109)
4.  Haverford (164)
5.  Dickinson (187)
6.  Messiah (260)
7.  Swarthmore (269)
8.  Rowan (271)
9.  Franklin and Marshall (288)
10.  Bryn Mawr (314)
18.  Elizabethtown (534)