The Syracuse Orange football team wasn’t the only sport to start their season on Saturday. The cross-country squads stayed in New York for a rare dual meet against the Army Black Knights. It was the first dual meet between the schools since 1996 as the cancellation of fall sports by most conferences have meant there will be no big invitational races this fall.
Syracuse’s men’s team captured the first nine places on their way to a 15-50 sweep of Army. Graduate transfer JP Trojan won the 7.5k race in a time of 22:46 just ahead of Nathan Henderson and Joe Dragon.