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Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University cross-country/track & field team hosted a 5K on Sunday, December 13 and collected toys to benefit the Toys for Tots program. In all the Panthers collected over 50 toys to donate to the program and had over 60 finishers in the race.

"We had a great turnout and collected over 50 toys for the Toys for Tots program, which I am extremely excited about," Head Coach Adam Siepiola stated. "I'd like to thank everyone who participated and donated toys as well as everyone who helped make this event such a success and I look forward to doing it all over again next year."

Sam Fox was the overall champion, setting a course record of 17:18 on the 5K loop that wound it's way through the campus of Adelphi University. Fox's time was over a minute ahead of second place finisher Eric De La Haba. Women's champion, Danielle Matteo also set a course record, covering the distance in 18:53, also over minute ahead of second, Rita Siminkas.

Kevin Kremler was the top master's finisher, posting a time of 21:23, while Cathy Papandrew took home the women's master's title with a clocking of 28:28.

The Panthers plan on making this an annual event, holding the 2010 race on Sunday, December 12 with race time again being 9:30am.