SALISBURY, Md.--The Hood College men's cross country team finished 11th out of 13 teams competing at the Don Cathcart Invitational hosted by Salisbury University at Winter Place Park.

Mattia Mabellini (30:15), Brian Cathcart (35:00) and Rod Hendrickson (35:33) all registered personal records in the 8,000-meter race. In his second race of the fall, William Andrews was Hood's top finisher, placing 29:04.

"We are not quite where we need to be," said head coach Brent Ayer. "However, everyone is finally healthy and we have a three-week break to train before our next meet. I think we will be ready for the meets where we wanted to race well. We got a snap-shot view of the Capital Athletic Conference today, as all competing programs except for York were present. We were a little flat, but we worked very hard last week, as we will for the next three.  Sometimes you just have to train through and this was one of those times."

Hood will compete in the Market Street Mile Oct. 4.