Dominican cross country season off to a running start

Bentley returns to finish 21st after suffering season ending injury last year

Jeanine Bentley paced the Stars in their first race of the season.

Jeanine Bentley paced the Stars in their first race of the season.

Sept. 4, 2007

River Forest, Ill. - The Dominican University cross country teams opened the 2007 season at the Elmhurst College Earlybird Invitational on Friday, August 31. The women's team managed a 10th place finish while the men's team placed 16th at the annual meet.

Sophomore Jeanine Bentley (Downers Grove, IL) paced the women's team, finishing with a 21st place finish in a time of 16:10.60. Bentley missed most of her freshman campaign with a broken ankle. Teammate Megan Vaccaro (Oswego, IL) finished 44th with a time of 16:37.87. Vaccaro, also a sophomore, was the Stars' top runner as a freshman in 2006, placing 12th at last year's Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Championship meet with a time of 26:25.6 for the 6 kilometer race.

In the men's 6k-race, sophomore Robert Koors (St. Louis, MO) was the top finisher for Dominican, finishing with a time of 22:54.72.