HAVERFORD, Pa.—Villanova swept the first four spots and had seven of the top 11 finishers overall in a three-mile run at the Main Line Invitational on Friday afternoon. Junior Sadie Sigfstead (Edmonton, Alta.) led the Wildcats charge with a first place finish out of 74 competitors. Her winning time of 16:00.5 is the fastest that any Villanovan has run on the Alumni Course at nearby Haverford College.
 
Sigfstead was part of an all-junior quartet that paced the field in the local competition which featured runners from Villanova, Penn and La Salle in addition to several other schools in the area. Emma McGill (Lebanon, N.J.) followed Sigfstead in second place with a time of 16:14.0, while Margaret Carroll (Mount Wolf, Pa.) and Emily Robinson (Rogers, Ark.) finished third (17:11.5) and fourth (17:19.7), respectively. There were 11 Wildcats in all who competed in the race.
 
The times posted by Sigfstead and McGill are each among the five fastest on Villanova's performance list at the three-mile distance, which the team typically only runs early in the year in meets at Haverford. Sigfstead eclipsed the Wildcats fastest previous time on the course which was 16:03.0 and was set by Caroline Alcorta at the same meet in 2018. Alcorta went on to be the BIG EAST individual champion that season and tallied a top-three finish at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional.
 
Freshman Tilly O'Connor (Spring Lake, N.J.) rounded out the top five in the Villanova lineup, while sophomore Kinsey Pogue (Danville, Calif.) and senior Elizabeth Vaughn (Dayton, Ohio) each recorded strong finishes. O'Connor came in eighth in 17:25.2, Pogue was 10^th with a time of 17:34.8 and Vaughn finished 11^th in 17:43.4. Sophomore Micah Trusty (Philadelphia, Pa.), who made her mark in the middle distance events on the track as a first-year collegian last year, came in 23^rd in 18:47.8.
 
The rest of the competing Wildcats included freshman Caelen O'Leary (Taunton, Mass.) and junior Alec Stasichin (Massapequa, N.Y.) finishing consecutively with times of 19:41.6 and 19:51.6, respectively, while senior Kate Flynn (Gray, Tenn.) posted a time of 20:21.2.
 
Villanova finished first in the team standings with 18 points, followed by Penn (39) and La Salle (87) to round out the top three teams.