Meet Information 
• Race: Shannon Henretty Invitational
• Location: Stevenson, MD • Greenspring Course
• Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018
• The Short Story: Led by senior Scott Pourshalchi, the Johns Hopkins men's cross country team won the Shannon Henretty Invitational on the campus of Stevenson University on Saturday.

Race Highlights
Langston Gash of Stevenson won the race in 26:21.38, almost seven seconds ahead of Pourshalchi. Conner Delahanty finished close to four seconds behind Pourshalchi and was followed by Patrick Dye and Kevin Peters to round out the top-five. Sean Laidlaw finished sixth, just over a second behind Peters.

HEAD COACH BOBBY VAN ALLEN
• "It was a battle of 3 of the top 6 teams in the region with #4 Messiah #6 Stevenson so  it was a nice early season regional battle which we were able to dominate."
• "Our main focus for today was to really keep our packs together early and not get too caught up in the pace of the race.  We moved up very well in the second half of the race to ultimately put our entire top 7 in the top 8 with just a 10 second gap between our 1-5 runners."
• "I was very pleased with how well we executed today's objective despite a very muddy/sloppy course. We did this while resting our top 4 runners form last weekend's Mount St. Mary Duals as well and we'll look to have our entire top 10 together for the first time in two weeks up in Boston."
• "Several guys really had some breakthrough races today as Pat Dye and Kevin Peters were able to put themselves in our top 5 along with freshman Sean Laidlaw.  If we can continue to work together the rest of the season like we did today we will be a very strong team at the NCAA Championships."

Team Results
1. Johns Hopkins – 20
2. Stevenson – 58
3. Messiah – 67
4. Eastern – 116
5. Wilkes – 175

Johns Hopkins Top Finishers:
2. Scott Pourshalchi – 26:28.83
3. Conner Delahanty – 26:32.96
4. Patrick Dye – 26.36.74
5. Kevin Peters – 26:37.18
6. Sean Laidlaw – 26:38.80
7. PJ Murray – 26:45.75
8. Panth Patel – 26:48.00

Up Next
• Johns Hopkins will return to action on Friday, September 21 as the team will take part in the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown. The race is scheduled to begin at 3 pm.

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