Meet Information
Race: PAC Championship - 8K
Location: Latrobe, Pa. - Saint Vincent College
Short Story: The Men's Cross Country team won their third straight PAC Championship with Miguel Daez leading the way with his first place finish.

Race Highlights
Franciscan Men's Cross Country proved on Saturday that they are still the top team in the conference by winning the PAC Championship with a team score of 41 points. The Barons came in as an underdog of sorts, as they were picked third by the PAC Coaches in the PAC Preseason Poll with just one first place vote. Saint Vincent, the host school fot the championship, earned six first place votes in the preseason poll to be the favorites, and Allegheny was picked second. Allegheny placed second with 56 team points with five runners in the top fifteen. Geneva placed third with 67 points with three runners in the top ten, and Saint Vincent placed fourth with 80 points. Franciscan Men's Cross Country has now won six Conference Championships in program history with five in a row, as they won the 2018 and 2019 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships before joining the PAC in 2020.

Miguel Daez shaved off 12 seconds from his race earlier this season on the same course to win the PAC Championship. His time of 25:27.08 would beat the field by over 28 seconds, as he was just two tenths of a second off his personal best eight kilometer time. Danny Donovan was next to finish for Franciscan, as he placed fifth for his best placing of the season. Sophomore David Di Nardo made it three Barons in the Top 10, as he placed eighth. George Kaftan placed 11th with a time of 26:39.28. Then the fifth finished for Franciscan was Conal Delaney, the reigning Newcomer of the Year, secured the Championship with his 16th place finish. 

Baron Top Finishers (By Overall Place) 
1st  Miguel Daez                 25:27.08
5th  Danny Donovan            26:20.90
8th  David Di Nardo              26:35.80
11th George Kaftan                26:39.28
16th  Conal Delaney              27:01.86
39th Nathaniel Tokarsky        28:05.92
53rd Andrew Madigan            28:50.08
75th  Aidan Kay                      29:51.06

Up Next
Franciscan will now prepare for the NCAA Division III Great Lake Regional Meet in Holland, Michigan on November 2nd. The Barons placed 6th out of 42 teams there last season in their best team finish in school history. Liam Galligan placed 6th to earn his way to the NCAA National Championship, and Miguel Daez placed 33rd to earn All-Region Honors.

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