BETHANY, W.Va. -- The Washington & Jefferson College men's cross country team ran to a fifth-place team finish at the 2020-21 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Men's Cross Country Championships at Bethany on Saturday.

The Presidents were fifth with a team score of 123, just two spot behind Waynesburg for fourth place. 
  
W&J had two runners achieve All-PAC Second Team status as Parker Laughlin (Zelienople, Pa./Seneca Valley) and Paul Collier (Heath, Ohio/Heath) both finished inside the top 14 runners at PACs.
 
Laughlin was W&J's top finisher with a 5K time of 16:47.5 to finish 12th. Collier was 13th in the 64 runner field at 16:53.3.
 
Freshman Clay Yeager (Mifflintown, Pa./Juniata) narrowly missed out on All-PAC Honorable Mention applause with a 25th-place finish at 17:37.6.
 
Nick Millison (Salem, Ohio/South Range) finished 35th (18:19.6) and Chase Grinnell (Fombell, Pa./Riverside) was 45th (19:06.4) to round out W&J's top five.
 
Collier was also the Presidents' representative on the PAC Sportsmanship team.

PAC newcomer Franciscan took home the team title with a score of 27.