SUNY Delhi's Matt Conant placed first Friday to lead the Broncos to their fifth straight Mountain Valley Conference cross-country championship at the Delhi College Golf Course.
April Ackermann won the women's race, helping SUNY Cobleskill to the team title.
Conant completed the 3.1-mile course in 22 minutes, 13.2 seconds, beating 36 runners to the finish line.
Ben Jackson (second, 22:35), Pat Nickerson (fourth, 23:08), Eric Stermer (fifth, 23:10) and Stephen McCaffrey (sixth, 23:21) contributed to an 18-point effort for the Broncos, who beat second-place Mohawk Valley by 27 points. All five Delhi runners earned All-Conference honors, which are awarded to the top-seven finishers.
"I've never seen our guys run in conditions this bad," said Delhi coach Bob Backus, whose NJCAA Division III top-ranked men's team won its eighth conference title in the last nine years despite driving rain, wind and sleet and temperatures in the mid-30s.
Ackermann finished first among 23 women with a time of 20:23. Sarah Furman contributed a fourth-place finish (21:54) for the Fighting Tigers, who beat Mohawk Valley, 25-32, for the team title.
Delhi's Gabby Dello (Gilbertsville-Mount Upton) finished seventh (22:27) and earned All-Conference honors for the Broncos.
MVC Championships
at Delhi College Golf Course
Men's team scores: SUNY Delhi 18; 2, Mohawk Valley 45; 3, SUNY Cobleskill 69; 4, Herkimer 115.
Delhi runners: 1, Matt Conant 22:13.2; 2, Ben Jackson 22:35; 4, Pat Nickerson 23:08; 5, Eric Stermer 23:10; 6, Stephen McCaffrey 23:21; 12, Alaric Best 24:45; 16, Marshall Morehouse 25:23; 20, Vinny Stasi 25:33; 22, Mike Morales 25:55; 23, Tony Modaferri 26:04; 27, Nick Groover 26:54; 31, Rich Esposito 27:52; 32, Chris Mantos 28:21.
Cobleskill runners: 7, Creig Levens 23:39; 10, Eric Graber 24:09; 13, Brandon Gillis 24:47; 19, Jeff Dufel 25:31; 21, Zak Locke 25:36; 24, Kyle Kunes 26:06; 25, Shane Culbert 26:09; 28, Peter Williamson 27:02; 30, Paul Cullen 27:28; 34, Tyler Reemil 30:11.
Women's team scores: 1, SUNY Cobleskill 25; 2, Mohawk Valley 32. Incomplete _ Delhi, Herkimer, Hudson Valley.
Cobleskill runners: 1, April Ackermann 20:23; 4, Sarah Furman 21:54; 10, Ashley Cook 23:34; 11, Amanda Aker 23:49; 13, Anastasia Yakaboski 24:08; 15, Teresa Cox 25:51; 22, Leelani Succi 33:21.
Delhi runners: 7, Gabby Dello 22:27; 8, Leslie DuBrava 23:03; 12, Rebecca Fribush 24:04.
Men's Soccer
O-State 4, Farmingdale 0
Keith Manscuk scored three goals and had one assist to lead Oneonta State over visiting Farmingdale.
Manscuk's first goal came nine minutes into play. Mike Mahoney also scored for the Red Dragons (12-2-1), who had a 25-11 advantage in shots.
O-STATE 4, Farmingdale 0
Farmingdale 0 0 _ 0
Oneonta State 1 3 _ 4
Farmingdale (7-7-2): None.
Oneonta State (12-2-1): Keith Manscuk 3-1, Mike Mahoney 1-0, Ryan Grady 0-1.
Shots-corner kicks: F 4-0; O 25-11.
Goalies: Patrick Gubbins (F) 5, Joseph Caccavale 3 (F); Michael Amari (O) 3.
Women's Soccer
O-State to play No. 1
Oneonta State will put its 16-game winning streak on the line at 3 p.m. Saturday, when the third-ranked Red Dragons visit Messiah College, the top-ranked NCAA Division III women's soccer team in the country.
Defending national champion Messiah (12-0) has not allowed a goal this season. SUNY Athletic Conference regular-season champion O-State (16-1), which has not allowed a goal in its last 10 games, has outscored its opponents, 65-4. The Red Dragons have won every game since losing its season opener to Johns Hopkins.
The game will be broadcast on Messiah College radio station WVMM and can be linked to through their website at http://www.messiah.edu.
Hartwick moves game
Hartwick moved the site of its 2 p.m. home game against RIT on Saturday, from Elmore Field to the Wright National Soccer Campus' Bettiol Field. Hartwick also cancelled its junior varsity soccer matches for the weekend.
Honors
Delhi athletes of the week
SUNY Delhi named Christina Intartaglia and Matt Conant its athletes of the week. Women's soccer captain Intartaglia had a goal and an assist to lead the Broncos to victories over Tompkins-Cortland CC (2-1) and Genesee (1-0) last week. Delhi is ranked ninth among NJCAA Division III programs, marking the first time the program has broken the top 10.
Cross-country runner Conant finished 38th at the Albany Invitational last weekend. His time of 25 minutes, 56 seconds is the fastest for a Delhi runner over 8,000 meters under 13th-year head coach Bob Backus.
Moves
Hartwick names SID
Hartwick announced the hiring of sports information director John Gilger on Friday.
Gilger, a native of Oil City, Pa., returns to the field after a three-year hiatus and replaces Dave Caspole, who resigned in September.
Gilger spent 12 years in the profession as an intern, an assistant and a head SID. Gilger's most-recent SID job ran from 1999-2003 at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
