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Men's Cross Country Wins NCAA Northeast Regional

11/11/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country

Nov. 11, 2000

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The fourth-ranked Providence College men's cross country team scored 27 points and captured its third NCAA Northeast Regional Cross Country Championship on Saturday, November 11 at Van Cortlandt Park in New York, N.Y. PC's 16th-ranked women's team scored 95 points and finished fourth behind Boston College (47 points), Yale (56 points) and Brown (87 points) in the women's race. The top two men's and women's teams advance to the NCAA Championship on Monday, Nov. 20 at Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.

The Friars also captured the men's individual title. In the men's race, Providence senior Keith Kelly of Drogheda, Ireland won the individual title in a time of 30:33. It marks the second consecutive year that Kelly has captured the individual title at the NCAA Northeast Regional.

Junior Hamish Thorpe (Auckland, New Zealand), sophomore Adam Sutton (Preston, England) and junior Dermot Galvin (Kilrush, Ireland) also finished in the top 10 for the PC men's team. Thorpe ran a strong race for the Friars, finishing second behind Kelly in a time of 30:57. Rounding out PC's top-10, Sutton placed third (31:00) and Galvin was seventh (31:10). Senior Larry Morrissey (Waterford, Ireland) was the final scorer for the Friars, placing 14th in a time of 31:38.

The women's team was led senior Rachel Hixson of Media, Pa. who finished eighth in a time of 20:52. Also scoring for the Friars were senior Francine Darroch of Cambridge, Ontario (13th - 21:03), sophomore Roisin McGettigan of Wicklow, Ireland (15th - 21:09), junior Kathryn Casserly of Galway, Ireland (28th - 21:26) and sophomore Emily Tallen of Kingston, Ontario (31st - 21:33).

The men's team returns to action on Nov. 20 at the NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championship in Ames, Iowa. The PC men's team will be making its sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA Cross Country Championship. The PC women's team will find out on Monday, Nov. 13 if they will receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship.

MEN'S RESULTS Top 10 - Distance: Cross Country1.  Keith Kelly   Providence  30:33.22.  Hamish Thorpe   Providence  30:57.73.  Adam Sutton   Providence  31:00.74.  Dan Wilson  Connecticut 31:03.95.  Vinny Mulvey    Iona            31:07.06.  Eddie Baker Harvard         31:08.87.  Dermot Galvin   Providence  31:10.48.  Tom McCardle    Dartmouth   31:13.59.  Jochen DieckfossBoston Univ.    31:20.310. Graeme Reid Iona            31:21.9
14. Larry Morrissey   Providence  31:38.218. Ciaran Lynch Providence  31:45.8
MEN'S TEAM SCORES TOP 10-1. Providence   272. Iona         753. Dartmouth    1044. Columbia 1555. Boston Univ. 1936. Brown    2327. Army         2348. Boston Coll. 2639. Cornell  26610. Maine   290

WOMEN'S RESULTS Top 10 - Distance: Cross Country1.  Megan Guiney    Boston College  20:26.12.  Sara Tindall    Brown           20:31.23.  Kim Thalmann    Brown           20:39.14.  Katie Ryan  Boston College  20:43.45.  Laura O'Neill   Yale            20:45.86.  Kate O'Neill    Yale            20:46.77.  Laura Smith Boston College  20:50.38.  Rachel Hixson   Providence  20:52.29.  Catherine GuineyBoston College  20:55.810. Kathleen Rigney Yale            20:58.6
13. Francine Darroch    Providence  21:03.715. Roisin McGettigan   Providence  21:09.728. Kathleen Casserly   Providence  21:26.531. Emily Tallen            Providence  21:33.433. Claire Shearman         Providence  21:38.261. Lisa Cappello           Providence  22:13.4
WOMEN'S TEAM SCORES TOP 10-1. Boston College   472. Yale             563. Brown            874. Providence           955. Columbia         1436. Boston University    1447. Cornell          2048. Dartmouth            2579. Massachusetts    29910. Harvard         339

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