Bloomsburg senior Lexi Tepper from Cherry Hill East placed 2nd out of nearly 100 runners Saturday morning at the Bloomsburg Invitational on her home course in Columbia County.
Tepper, in her 1st year of XC at Bloomsburg after spending three years at UMBC, ran 22:55 and finished behind only sophomore teammate Olivia Magagna of Strasburg High, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, who won the race in 22:21.
Tepper, the PSAC mile and 3,000 champ last spring, was in 3rd with 1,000 meters to go but passed Millersville’s Bri Pollock and finished 2nd.
Bloomsburg went 1-2-13-15-17 and placed 2nd to East Stroudsburg, which scored 39 points.
