LANCASTER, Pa. – Battling the heat and a talented field, the Centenary University cross country teams competed at the Charger Invitational hosted by Lancaster Bible College on Friday afternoon.

"I thought both teams did a nice job of working through heat issues and we had several runners improve on their times from when we competed in this event last year so that was good," said head coach Pat Regan.

Led by strong performances from Rhiannon Ginnetti, Kelly Ann Earrusso and Alexa Visconti, the Cyclone women's team finished fifth in the 6K event.

Ginnetti posted a time of 34.44.30 and finished 24th on the day. Ginnetti improved her time on the same course from a year ago by nearly two minutes.

Visconti finished just outside of the top 30 in her first race of the season for the Cyclones. Her time of 36:16.70 was good enough for 31st. Earrusso followed her teammate closely across the line and logged a time of 36:23.30. She improved her time on the course by nearly seven minutes from a year ago.

Yvanna Germosen was the next Cyclone to cross the line as she posted a time of 45:16.00. Fellow Cyclone Carolyn Rosenberg was just 40 hundredths of a second behind Germosen as she finished in 45:16.40.

Also posting times for the Cyclones in the meet were Stefania Mizakova (50:25.50), Dara Murphy (50:40.90) and Olivia Marion (56:46.40).

Jared Aponte finished 15th to lead the Centenary men's team to a sixth place finish in the 8k event. Aponte posted a time of 32:30.80 to lead the Cyclone contingent.

Matt Oehrlein took 26th place after logging a time of 36:44.30. He improved on his time at this event by nearly five minutes from a year ago.

Matt Perine finished just outside the top 30 as his time of 39:03.90 was good for 31st place. He bettered his time in this event from a year ago by nearly two minutes.

Gabriel Lentzner ran a time of 40:55.80 and was the next Cyclone to cross the line. Making his first appearance of the year for the Cyclones, Angelo Piazza posted a time of 41:45.70.

Rounding out the Centenary contingent in the event were John Triana (42:53.10), Kevin Zaccareo Jr. (43:42.50) and Joshua Scialom (48:56.20).

Centenary will be back in action on Saturday, Sept. 24 when it travels to Fred Pavlich Invitational hosted by Bard.