MAC Men’s Runner of the Week
Ernie Pitone (Widener / Sr. / Springfield, Pa.) earns his second conference weekly award of the season. He ran in Lehigh’s prestigious Men’s Gold 8K at the Paul Short Run against a majority of Division I competition. Pitone took 24th overall, second among Division III runners, in a time of 24:09, which was almost two minutes faster than any other MAC runner in their respective 8K races last week. To put Pitone’s competition into perspective, the rest of the Pride ran in Lehigh’s Brown 8K (mostly Division II teams), while many other conference schools ran in Lehigh’s White 8K (mostly Division III teams).