BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Johns Hopkins finished second in the team standings and JHU junior Jared Pangallozzi took second individually to headline a strong performance from the Centennial Conference at the 2019 NCAA Men's Cross Country Mideast Regional on Saturday at Lehigh University.
Pangallozzi finished as the runner-up with a time of 24:40.7 on the 8k course, leading the Blue Jays to second place in the team standings. Declan Hines also finished in the top-10 for JHU, taking 10th, while Conner Delahanty claimed 15th in the field of 360 runners.
Muhlenberg's Jason Richwall was the second CC runner to cross the finish line, placing eighth at 24:57.6.
A total of 15 Centennial runners earned all-region accolades with top-25 finishes. In addition to the aforementioned Pangallozzi, Richwall, Hines and Delahanty, other all-region honorees included Haverford's Conor Madden (17th) and Sam McCalpin (20th), JHU's Patrick Dye (21st), Haverford's Peter Buckley (22nd) and Ryan Kredell (23rd), Dickinson's Charles Scharf (25th) and Christopher Scharf (27th), JHU's Vipul Bhat (28th) and Tyler Amos (31st), Swarthmore's Aiden Cantine (34th), and Gettysburg's Sam Sheldon (35th).
In the team standings, three Centennial squads finished in the top four and four landed in the top 10. Carnegie Mellon won the team crown with 52 points, followed by Hopkins (69), Haverford (138), and Dickinson (187) in second through fourth, respectively. Swarthmore also secured a top-10 placing in 10th with 382 points, while Gettysburg (13th), Ursinus (21st), Muhlenberg (26th), McDaniel (27th), and Franklin & Marshall (29th) rounded out the CC team placings.