Geneva, NY - Freshman Sarah Duclos of the Clarkson University Cross Country team paced 121 runners at the Cross Country-Only Championships on Saturday as the Golden Knights won both the men's and women's team scoring for the first time since 2005.

The Golden Knights' men scored a team-low 22 points with seven runners in the top 10, easily outdistancing the rest of the field. Paul Smith's came in second (72), followed by Morrisville State (105), Potsdam State (123), Hobart (127), Hartwick (144), Wells (212), Elmira (224), D'Youville (226), SUNY Canton (242), Cazenovia (268), Keuka (317), Medaille (406) and Pitt-Bradford (incomplete) and Hilbert (incomplete). The women weren't quite as dominant with a team-low of 31 points and five runners in the top 12, but they had a larger winning margin. William Smith came in second (82), followed by Cazenovia (102), Morrisville State (139), Potsdam State (163), Paul Smith's (168), Hartwick (170), Elmira (236), Medaille (238), Wells (257), Keuka (271), SUNY Canton (273), D'Youville (297), and Hilbert (329).

Freshman Sarah Duclos won the 5,000-meter event with a time of 19 minutes, 17.2 seconds, a pace of 6:13 per mile, becoming the first Clarkson female to win the CCOC individual title since Janine Laskoski placed first back in 2006. The difference between the two runners, however, was Laskoski paced a field of 44 runners nine years ago while Duclos outdistanced a pack of 120 runners following her. Junior Victoria Hathaway came in third in 19:29.4, while freshman Katie Ackner came in sixth in 20:10.6. Sophomore Abby Sullivan also finished in the top 10, coming in ninth in 20:28.9, and freshman Hannah Phillips rounded out Clarkson's scoring as a team with a 12th-place finish in 20:31.1. Taylor Lupini (14th), Alison Davis (23rd), Aurora Goodwin (24th), Chelsea Farinacci (27th) and Christina Tricomi (35th) rounded out Clarkson's top 10.

On the men's side, the top finisher in the 8,000-meter evenet for Clarkson was senior Ryan Recchia, coming in second place (26:53.1) among 125 participants, as 12 Golden Knight runners crowded the top 20. More impressively, seven of the first 10 runners were clad in Clarkson Green and Gold, as AJ Beers (27:04.9, third), Jacob Dowman (27:09.6, fourth), Alex DeWitt (27:25.1, sixth) and John Bell (27:28.7, seventh) kept the Knights score to just 22. Austin Smith (27:35.0, ninth) and Lukas Patrizio (27:42.8, 10th) rounded out the top 10, while Paul Moore (12th), Ryan Burnham (14th), Stephen Paddock (15th), Jacob Erdman (17th) and Kris Lizins (20th) also performed well at the race.