Senior Chelsea Socha will again lead the Storm in 2010.

The Keuka College cross country teams will compete in six invitationals as well as the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championships this fall.

The Storm will get started at the SUNYIT Invite on Sept. 4.  Keuka will also run in the SUNY Oswego, Hobart College, SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College, and University of Rochester Invitationals.  The NEAC meet will be held on Oct. 30.

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Sophomore Scott Matheis was selected to the All-NEAC third team.

The Keuka College men’s cross country team took sixth out of nine teams at the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Championships held at SUNYIT on Saturday.

Keuka finished the 8K race with a final score of 158.  SUNY Cobleskill took home the NEAC crown with its score of 20.  SUNYIT was second with an 80 while the University of Dallas (98), Cazenovia College (107), and Wells College (128) rounded out the top-five.

Sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) led the way for the Storm with his 19th place finish out of 65 runners.  He ran the race in a time of 31:40 and averaged a 6:23 mile.  His finish earned him a spot on the All-NEAC third team.

Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) finished in 34th place in a time of 33:17 while classmate Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) ran in 39th place (34:21).

Rookie David Parker (Syracuse, N.Y./ESM) placed fourth for Keuka in 45th place (35:28) while junior Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) was 48th overall (36:04).

Junior Chris Mazella was Keuka's second finisher.

The Keuka men’s cross country team ran to a 10th place finish out of 14 schools at the Cross Country Only Conference (CCOC) Championships held at Seneca Lake in Geneva on Saturday.  The Storm finished with a team score of 239 while Clarkson University won the race with a score of 27.

Keuka’s Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) finished the 8K race in 22nd place out of 115 runners in a time of 28:21.  Junior Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) was the Storm’s second finisher for the first time this season as he placed 65th (31:29).

Rookies Justin Hess (Clyde, N.Y./Clyde Savannah) and David Parker (East Syracuse, N.Y./ESM) were third and fourth for Keuka as they placed 67th (31:47) and 68th (31:51).  Junior Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) finished 86th in a time of 34:19.

Keuka will next compete in the NEAC Championships on Saturday, Oct. 31st at SUNYIT.

Sophomore Scott Matheis

Led by sophomore Scott Matheis’ (Barker, N.Y./Barker) record-breaking performance, Keuka placed sixth out of nine teams at the Nazareth College Golden Flyer Invitational on Saturday.

Keuka ended with a team score of 164 while Alfred State won the race with a final tally of 27.  Nazareth took second (42) and was followed by Finger Lakes CC (102), Daemen College (105), and SUNY ESF (118).

Matheis placed 29th overall out of 73 runners as he finished the 6K race in a time of 20:55.  He set a pace of 5:37 as he shattered his own Keuka College record for a 6K record.  His previous record, set last year, was 22:14. 

Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) finished 40th overall in a time of 22:10 with a 5:57 average mile.  Rookie David Parker (East Syracuse, N.Y./ESM) was 10 seconds behind Connor (22:20) as he finished 42nd overall.  Juniors Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) and Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) finished fourth and fifth for Keuka.  Mazella was 48th overall (22:37) while Uline was 56th (23:46).

Keuka will next run in its final race before the NEAC’s.  The Storm will compete in the Hobart College  race at Seneca Lake this Saturday, October 17.

Sophomore Scott Matheis was the Storm's top finisher.

The men’s cross country team took 23rd place out of 24 teams at the SUNY Geneseo Invitational held at Letchworth State Park this past weekend.  Keuka finished with a team score of 691 while Geneseo won the race witha  score of 23.

R.I.T. took second place with a score of 65 and were followed by Rochester (74), Fredonia St. (104), and the Geneseo Alumni (126).

Sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) was the Storm’s top finisher as he came in 207th place out of 283 runners.  Matheis finished the 8K race in a time of 31:07.  A little over a minute behind Matheis was junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) in 228th place (32:10).

Junior Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) was Keuka’s third finisher in 250th place in a time of 33:40.  Rookie Justin Hess (Clyde, N.Y./Clyde Savannah) and junior Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) rounded out Keuka’s top-five.  Hess placed 259th (34:56) while Uline was 272nd (36:29).

Keuka will next run in the Nazareth College Invitational this Saturday, October 10.

Sophomore Scott Matheis finished 14th overall.

The Keuka men’s cross country team took sixth out of seven teams at the Hobart Invitational on Saturday.  Keuka finished with a score of 116.

The host Statesmen won the race with a score of 36 followed by SUNYIT (73).  SUNY ESF (89), Cazenovia College (102), and Wells College (113) rounded out the top five.

Sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) did his best to help the Storm as he finished the 8K race in a time of 31:25.  His time was good enough for a 14th place finish out of 53 total runners.  Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) was just 24 seconds behind Matheis while placing 17th overall.

Rookie Justin Hess (Clyde, N.Y./Clyde-Savannah) took 27th place in a time of 33:44 and was followed by juniors Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) and Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton).  The pair finished in 33rd (34:20) and 38th (34:42) place, respectively.

Keuka will next run in the SUNY Geneseo Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 3 beginning at noon.

Junior Josh Uline (left) and senior Ryan Stack placed fourth and fifth for Keuka.

The Keuka men’s cross country team finished in seventh place out of seven teams at the SUNY Oswego Invitational on Saturday.  The Storm runners finished the 6K race with a final score of 198.

SUNY Cortland won the race with a score of 21 as they had the top four runners.  Ithaca College took second with a 35 and were followed by SUNY Oswego (83), Alfred University (133), and SUNY ESF (148).

For the second race in a row, sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) led the Storm as he placed 48th overall out of 78 runners.  Matheis ran in a time of 23:09.

Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) took 54th place in a time of 24:14 while rookie Justin Hess (Clyde, N.Y./Clyde Savannah) placed 61st overall (24:57).  Junior Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) placed 72nd (27:02) and senior Ryan Stack (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park) placed 74th (28:17), respectively.

The Storm will next run in the Hobart College Invitational this Saturday, Sept. 19 beginning at noon.

Junior Chris Mazella (left), sophomore Scott Matheis (middle), and junior Kraig Connor (right) were the Storm's top three runners.

The men’s cross country took seventh out of eight teams at the SUNYIT Wildcat Invitational this past Saturday, Sept. 5. 

Keuka finished with a team score of 164 while Hobart College won the Invite with a 51.  SUNYIT took second with an 85 and Wells College (107), SUNY Canton (130), and Cazenovia College (136) rounded out the top-five.

Sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker) led the Storm with his 15th place finish out of 62 runners.  He finished the 6K race in a time of 23:11.

Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia) took 25th place with a time of 24:07 while classmate Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) placed 39th overall (25:49).  Junior Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) took fourth for Keuka in 46th place (26:41) while rookie David Parker (East Syracuse, N.Y./ESM) rounded out the Storm’s top five with his 54th place finish (29:18).

Keuka will next run in the SUNY Oswego Invitational this Saturday, Sept. 12 at noon.

Sophomore Scott Matheis will pace the Storm again in '09.

The Keuka College men’s cross country team returns four of its top five runners from a 2008 squad that finished fifth at the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championships.

New Head Coach Katie Marcella hopes that their experience from last season will help the team improve on its conference finish.

“This team’s strength will be the motivation that the runners have, wanting to get out there and make themselves better and to push one another to be better.” stated Marcella.

The squad will be led by sophomore Scott Matheis (Barker, N.Y./Barker), who had a stellar rookie campaign.  Matheis finished first for the Storm in all but one race and won the Keuka Invitational with an 8K time of 29:31.  He finished 31st at the NEAC Championships.

Junior Kraig Connor (Rochester, N.Y./Greece Olympia), who had three top 5 Keuka finishes last season while missing a few races with injury, is poised for a big junior year.

Fellow juniors Chris Mazella (Depew, N.Y./Depew) and Josh Uline (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) each had four, top 5 Keuka finishes last season and will give the Storm a very solid top 4.

New to the team will be Justin Hess (Clyde, N.Y./Clyde Savannah) and David Parker (East Syracuse, N.Y./ESM).  Both will be counted on to round out Keuka’s top 5.

Keuka will start its season at SUNYIT Saturday, Sept. 5.  The Storm will then compete in invitationals at SUNY Oswego, Hobart, SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth, and the University of Rochester.  Keuka’s lone home race will be Thursday, Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. at Keuka Lake State Park.  The NEAC Championships will be held at SUNYIT Saturday, Sept. 31.

Marcella will remain in her assistant women’s basketball coach roll for the 2009-10 season.  In her first season with Dave Sweet’s hoops squad, she helped lead the team to a 17-8 overall record that included a 15-game winning streak, a North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Tournament championship, and Keuka’s second trip to the NCAA Tournament in the past three seasons.

Marcella succeeds Jason Paige as cross country coach.  Paige will now concentrate solely on his men’s lacrosse program.  Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams placed fifth at least year’s NEAC Championship.

Marcella is a 2007 graduate of SUNY Brockport, where she starred on the basketball court before earning her degree in physical education.

She was a four-year starter and two-time captain for Brockport while being named to the All-SUNYAC second team as a junior and first team as a senior.  She amassed 987 points and would have reached the 1,000 point milestone if not for a torn ACL.  She finished her career third all-time in steals and 3-pointers, sixth all-time in rebounding, and seventh in 3-point percentage.  Marcella was also named to the JPMorgan Chase All-Tournament first team her senior year.

Marcella attended Guilderland High School and was three-sport star.  She lettered five times in track and field and cross country and three times in basketball.  She held the long jump record at her school upon graduating and was named her school’s Female Athlete of the Year as a senior.

Marcella is pursuing a master’s degree in Athletic Administration at Brockport.