ATTLEBORO, Mass. – The Yale women's cross country team took fourth place with 94 points at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships Saturday morning at sunny Highland Park's Mark Coogan Cross Country Course. Princeton won with 33 points, and Penn's Allison Lee was the individual champion (20:14.0).

• Full Results

 
The Bulldogs:

• Sophomore Phoebe Benun (seventh, 20:43.5) was Yale's top finisher. She was second among all sophomores at the race; only Princeton's Caroline Barton finished ahead of her. Benun had the team's fastest split in the final 1K (3:23.6), moving up seven spots in that span.
• Senior Hebe Chadwick (eighth, 20:43.5) finished just behind Benun. She made a dramatic improvement over her previous best Heps finish (30th last year). She and Benun also made Yale one of only two teams to have more than one top-eight finisher (Princeton had three). 
• First-year Anna Prusak (20th, 21:07.9) and junior Zoe Martonfi (25th, 21:21.4) finished within 14 seconds of each other.
• Senior Daniella Henderson (36th, 21:48.3), Yale's captain, rounded out the Bulldogs' top five.  
• First-year Naomi Douglas (39th, 21:52.1) and junior Julie Piot (41st, 21:54.0) crossed the line within six seconds of Henderson and were Yale's sixth and seventh finishers.
• Junior Sylvie Sanok Dufallo (49th, 22:04.6), junior Muriel Lovshin (53rd, 22:09.9) and junior Lily Jin (65th, 22:26.9) rounded out Yale's Heps competitors. 

Up Next:

• Yale will compete at the NCAA Northeast Regionals on Friday, Nov. 13 at Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage, N.Y. The Bulldogs placed fifth at Regionals last year. 
• NCAA Championships selections will be announced by 5:00 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 14 on ncaa.com.
• The NCAA Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships provide for a maximum of 32 (five-to-seven-person) teams and 38 individuals per gender. 
  • Eighteen teams automatically qualify for the championships races by finishing as one of the top two teams at any of the nine regional races. 
  • The remaining 14 at-large teams are selected by the NCAA Division I Cross Country Subcommittee. 
  • Thirty-six individuals automatically qualify for the championships races by being one of the top four regional finishers not on an advancing team. 
  • Two additional individuals are selected at-large by the committee.