2026 Purchase College Invitational
Farmingdale State: Men (6,000 meters) - 3rd/12 Teams (99 pts.); Women (4,000 meters) - 7th/11 Teams (167 pts.)
RESULTS
PURCHASE, N.Y. |Â Led by top-20 finishes by senior
Gabriel Aguilar (Levittown, N.Y.) and junior
Jack Lengyel (Cheshire, Conn.), the Farmingdale State College men's cross country captured a third-place finish (99 points) Saturday morning at the Purchase College Invitational.Â
The Rams' women's team placed seventh at the meet (167 pts.), with
Julia Vitello (Webster, N.Y.) registering the top freshman finish amongst Skyline Conference competitors.
Aguilar earned 14th-place points on the 6,000 meter loop with a time of 21:43.0, with Lengyel checking in with a 22:00.1 time that was good for 18th place. First-year cross country competitor
Matthew Rintoul (Lake Grove, N.Y.) and freshman
Ryan Donohue (Islip, N.Y.) finished within six-tenths of a second of each other, with Rintoul (22:17.0) placing 21st to cross the finish line just a step ahead of his teammate. FSC's scoring quintet rounded out through junior
Aaron Rivera (Levittown, N.Y.), who registered a 24th-place finish of 22:44.6.
Vitello completed the 4,000-meter women's course in a 16th-place time of 18:08.3, with junior
Alice Valenzuela (Elmont, N.Y.) next across the finish line for the Rams with a time of 19:04.8 (20th place). Freshman
Sophie Brady (Athens, N.Y.) clocked a 31st-place time of 19:46.2, while freshman
Star Mensah (Bronx, N.Y.; 20:16.1) and sophomore
Sofia Mereles (Queens, N.Y.; 25:22.6) completed Farmingdale State's scoring.
FSC is back on the course on September 26 (Sat.), when the teams travel to Stony Brook, N.Y., to compete in St. Joseph's-Long Island's Golden Eagle Invitational.
