LOCK HAVEN, Pa. -- Point Park men's and women's cross country competed at Lock Haven University's Go Fast River Run on Saturday. The women finished in fourth place as a team, and the men turned in a seventh-place finish. 

Cassondra O'Connor led the women, finishing the 6K race in 21:44.2 for an 11th-place finish. Anna Babinyecz finished in 17th with her time of 22:00.2, and Paige McMahon (39th), Zabine von Westernhagen (41st) and Aubrey Smith (44th) rounded off the team's top five.

The Pioneer women finished second among all ranked Atlantic Region teams. Region-leading Edinboro took third place as a team, finishing 37 points better than Point Park did. The Pioneers, who are ranked sixth in the latest USTFCCCA Atlantic Region poll, finished higher at the race than fifth-ranked Kutztown, which finished sixth, seventh-ranked Slippery Rock (finished fifth) and 10th-ranked Bloomsburg (finished ninth).

Luke McKenna finished in 23rd place for the men, who placed seventh as a team. Chase Bowen (54th) and Ari Snyder (57th) turned in top-60 finishes, while Canaan Thomas and Ethan Syner took 69th and 78th places, respectively.

West Chester was the lone ranked team in the Atlantic Region to finish better than Point Park did. The Pioneers turned in better finishes than eighth-ranked Kutztown and ninth-place Slippery Rock did.

The Pioneers will set their sights next on the MEC Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, W.Va.