Women Place Eighth, Men Place Fifth at PSU’s Spiked Shoe Invite

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. –– For the second week in a row, first year Anna Villavicencio and Noah Smith paced the women and men’s cross country teams while competing at Penn State’s Spike Shoe Invitational on Friday. Smith, who came in 20th overall, led for the second week in a row, and in his career, closing out at 26:15.7. The top three runners were a repeat of the last outing, as Emmett Engelhart (26:24.0) and Marcus Valenzuela (26:26.9) again crossed the line nearly side-by-side in the two and three spots; the duo was 26th and 26th. Ty Parker moved up from…