Seton Hall University
BIG EAST Championships
WXC's Top Trio Shines Again at BIG EAST Championship
11/2/2013 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Nov. 2, 2013
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SOMERS, WIS - There's nothing routine about logging hundreds of miles per week in training but race day has followed a familiar format for the Seton Hall women's cross country team all season as senior Nyala Eddings (Chicago, Ill.), junior Mary Migton (Ledgewood, N.J.) and freshman Desyre Blackburn (Aloha, Ore.) have led the charge for a much improved squad.
The story was no different on Saturday at the 2013 BIG EAST Championships, as Eddings, Migton and Blackburn finished 1-2-3 on the team for the seventh consecutive meet, pacing a Pirate team that collected a ninth-place finish.
Eddings continued to shine in what has undoubtedly been her finest season in blue & white, missing out on setting a new personal record by a mere .02 seconds after finishing the 6K course in 22:57 (45th place). She has now scored for The Hall in three consecutive trips to the conference meet and has not finished lower than third on the team over that span.
Migton placed 60th overall with a final time of 24:15 and has now also finished in the team's top-three in each conference championship since 2011. As a freshman, she led the Pirates with a 65th-place overall and placed third last season behind Eddings and then senior Hughnique Rolle.
Blackburn crossed the line 12 seconds and four spots later, picking up a 64th place finish in 24:27. She remains one of three team members and the only underclassman on the squad who has scored in all seven meets in 2013.
Continuing a late season emergence that has now seen her score in three of the last four meets after ranking in the team's top-five for the first time in her career at the Cappy Anderson Invitational, sophomore Amanda Catherall (Farmingdale, N.Y.) turned in a time of 26:25 to rank fourth on the team and finish 73rd overall. Classmate Amanda Quaglia (Reading, Pa.) crossed the line next to close the Pirates' scoring with a 74th-place time of 26:37.
Quaglia's finish gave the team three repeat scorers from last season's BIG EAST meet as she joined Eddings and Migton in accomplishing the feat.
For the second time this season and the second-straight conference championship, the SHU women outperformed local rival St. John's; finishing with 277 team points to 299 for the Red Storm.
Providence senior Emily Sisson helped the #4 Friars sweep the championships by unseating defending BIG EAST Champion Emily Lipari (Villanova) to capture the individual title with a 19:49 effort. Lipari finished second in 19:56.
Providence's team score of 28 was 19 points better than second-place Georgetown.
Seton Hall will get next weekend off from competition before returning to the starting line on Friday, November 15 at the 2013 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Championship. Start-time is slated for 10:00 a.m.
