STANFORD, Calif. – A team strategy to go out hard and hold on didn't deter Joe Rosa and Maksim Korolev on their way to victory at the 41st Stanford Cross Country Invitational on Saturday at the Stanford Golf Course. 

The Stanford pair, who led from start to finish on the 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) course, briefly took a wrong turn. That is, Korolev did. The All-America graduate transfer from Harvard had never run on the course or in a Stanford uniform and his unfamiliarity cost him when he turned the wrong direction late in the race. However, Rosa quickly corrected his teammate and the pair lost only about five seconds on the way to a 19-second individual men’s victory.