CENTER VALLEY, Pa.—Swarthmore College Women's Cross Country raced to seventh place in the NCAA's Mideast Regional Championship on Saturday and had two runners named all-region.

Xiaojing Zeng and Kenzie Himelein-Wachowiak cracked the top-35 to earn all-region honors.

The Garnet compiled a score of 276 finishing just behind  Messiah (274) and a point in front of Elizabethtown (277).

As a team, the Garnet scorers averaged a time of 24:28 in the 6K race, and all five scorers came in at 85th place or better.

Himelein-Wachowiak and Zeng, seniors, finished faster than 24 minutes to earn all-region accolades. Himelein-Wachowiak came in 23rd place with a time of 23:50 and Zeng was just four seconds behind her, taking 30th place.

Junior Phoebe Whiteside and sophomore Emma Novak were neck-and-neck with each other. Whiteside held a nine second lead on Novak at the two-mile mark, but Novak nearly closed the gap by the finish line. Whiteside recorded a time of 24:46 for 68th and Novak was a second behind her for 70th place.

Rose Teszler appeared in Swarthmore's top-five as a freshman, recording a time of 25:02.

Swarthmore's sixth and seventh times came from junior Hannah Gutow and freshman Madeline Farber who crossed the finish line in 25:39 and 26:05, respectively.

The Garnet now wait to find out if any of their individual times are good enough to qualify for nationals.

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