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HAVERFORD, Pa. - For the second straight meet to begin the season, Villanova split its lineup between an official lineup of competing runners and a group of unattached athletes. Junior Patrick Tiernan (Toowoomba, Australia) was one of the unattached runners and he tallied a first place finish with a 12-second margin of victory at the Main Line Invitational on Friday evening. Junior Harry Warnick (Fairfield, Conn.) led the group of scoring runners with a 14th place finish and the Wildcats came in fourth in the team standings.

Warnick covered the four-mile Alumni Course at Haverford College in 19:58 and was followed closely by junior Kevin Corbusier (Monkton, Md.) in 18th place with a time of 20:01. The other scoring runners for Villanova were sophomore Drake Johnston (Santa Monica, Calif.) in 23rd place (20:17), freshman Elliot Slade (Cardiff, United Kingdom) in 33rd place (20:35) and senior Robert Hurlbut (Rochester, N.Y.) in 40th place (20:44).

A field of 150 runners competed at the meet, which included seven teams plus the unattached entries. The top five runners for the Wildcats had a spread of 46 seconds and Villanova finished with 97 points in the team standings despite running with only a partial lineup. Penn came in first with 15 points and was followed by La Salle (76) and Haverford (90) in the top three. Following the Wildcats were Temple (118), Widener (171) and Swarthmore (190).

Senior Tom Trainer (Havertown, Pa.), sophomore Ben Malone (River Vale, N.J.) and junior Josh Lampron (Mansfield, Mass.) were separated by just nine seconds at the finish line. Trainer recorded a time of 20:48 and finished 45th overall, while Malone and Lampron were 48th and 49th, respectively, with identical times of 20:53. Sophomore Zach Swenson (Boulder, Colo.) finished 63rd (21:12) and freshman Colin O'Mara (Little Rock, Ark.) was 87th (21:42).

The entire field in the race was paced by Tiernan, who crossed the finish line in 19:16 and came in 12 seconds ahead of Nicholas Tuck from Penn (19:28). Tiernan averaged a 4:49 mile for the race. Six true freshmen followed Tiernan, with Casey Comber (Maple Glen, Pa.) and Andrew Marston (Wayne, Pa.) running well in third and fifth places, respectively. Comber registered a time of 19:30 and Marston was close behind in 19:35.

Griffin Tichenor (Unionville, Ind.) came in 27th (20:23), Paul Power (Phoenixville, Pa.) was 31st, Lucas Arrivo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) finished 66th (21:18) and Louie Vazquez (Brooklyn, N.Y.) placed 102nd (22:01). Sophomore Kieran Brennan (Pearl River, N.Y.) rounded out the unattached contingent with a time of 23:44 in 136th place.

This is the 13th straight year that Villanova competed in the Main Line meet. After having next weekend off, the Wildcats will return to action at the Paul Short Run on October 2.

COMPLETE VILLANOVA RESULTS
Main Line Invitational (4th of 7)

Harry Warnick              14th of 150              19:58Kevin Corbusier            18th                     20:01Drake Johnston             23rd                     20:17Elliot Slade               33rd                     20:35Robert Hurlbut             40th                     20:44Tom Trainer                45th                     20:48Ben Malone                 48th                     20:53Josh Lampron               49th                     20:53Zach Swenson               63rd                     21:12Colin O'Mara               87th                     21:42

UNATTACHED VILLANOVA RUNNERS

Patrick Tiernan            1st                      19:16Casey Comber               3rd                      19:30Andrew Marston             5th                      19:35Griffin Tichenor           27th                     20:23Paul Power                 31st                     20:32Lucas Arrivo               66th                     21:18Louie Vazquez              102nd                    22:01Kieran Brennan             136th                    23:44