Haverford places fourth at Division III champs

Haverford’s six-year team hardware drought at the NCAA Division III men’s cross country championships is over.

Seniors Graham Peet, Greg Morgan and Ryan Herlihy earned All-America honors to pace the Fords to a fourth-place finish in the team competition Saturday. It’s the highest finish by Haverford since the Fords tied Calvin for second place in 2012 and marked the seventh time in program history the Fords earned a podium finish.

Haverford won the national title in 2010 and placed second in 2011.

Peet, the Mideast Region Athlete of the Year, covered the 10,000-meter course in Winneconne, Wisc., in 24 minutes, 49.3 seconds to finish in 16th place. Morgan was 18th in 24:50.1 and Herlihy placed 29th in 24:54.3. It’s the first time the Fords have had three All-Americans since 2011. The top

40 runners earn All-America honors. Sam McCalpin

(85th) and Jamie Moreland

(147th) rounded out the scorers for Haverford.

In the women’s Division III race, Springfield grad Grace Galligan earned All-American honors. The junior from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio placed 24th. Galligan covered the 6,000-meter course in 21:45.7. Strath Haven grad Isabel Cardi (Dickinson) also finished in the top 100. She was 79th. In the men’s Division race, Villanova’s Casey I Comber, a junior out of Hatboro-Horsham High School, finished 34th to earn AllAmerica honors. Comber finished in 29:56.1 to lead the Wildcats to 23rd in the team competition. That was six places higher than Villanova was ranked coming into the race. It’s the first time the men earned a trip to the NCAA championships as a group since 2014. Andrew Marston, a junior from Conestoga, placed

70th for the Wildcats. On the women’s side, senior Nicole Hutchinson finished 40th to earn AllAmerica honors for the first time in her career and pace Villanova to a 24thplace finish in the team competition. Hutchinson ran the 6,000-meter course in 20:36.3.