Penn State Harrisburg men's cross country team put on their best performance to date Saturday September 27th at the Messiah Invitational.

The Lions were led by Nicholas Sturm and Joseph Phifer who finished as a team in the 25th and 26th overall positions with times of 30:08 and 30:31 in the 8k match.  

The team overall finished in their best positin to date.  Harrisburg had an overall time of 2:35:25 which was good enough for a 5th place finish out of the nine teams.  Messiah took the top spot of their own tournament and their top runner Jared Schatz was the individual winner with his 26:57 time.  

Head Coach Danielle Lynch had this to say of the match following the race, "our top two men finished back to back with our 3rd man (a freshman) a little over 15 seconds back. We are still at the building stage of our training and this run was essential for our development as a whole. I was proud of our men who raced well with CAC competition and finished well in a decently challenging meet."

Harrisburg will hope to continue moving in the right direction next weekend when they host thier annual fall invitational at Shank Park on Saturday.