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11/12/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
Nov. 12, 2005
BOSTON, Mass. -- The 13th-ranked Providence College women's cross country team and the 30th-ranked men's squad each finished third at the 2005 NCAA Northeast Regionals on Saturday, November 12 at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. With the third-place finish, both the men's and women's teams will wait to hear whether they qualified for the NCAA's. The announcements will be made on Sunday, November 13 at 6:00 p.m. on www.ncaasports.com.
The men's team was the first to compete on a sunny, mild afternoon in Boston and when the race was over Iona (33 points) emerged as the first-place finisher in the 10K race, while Dartmouth (50 points) finished second. The top two teams automatically qualified for the NCAA's. The Friars had three runners finish in the top-10, led by senior Martin Fagan (Mulligar, Ireland), who placed second overall. Fagan and Iona's Richard Kiplagat were in a tight race from the start, but Kiplagat was able to pull away from Fagan at the end. Fagan recorded a time of 29:15, four seconds behind Kiplagat.
Sophomores Max Smith (Dunedin, New Zealand) and Ahmed Haji (West Hartford, Conn.) also had impressive performances, finishing, fifth and eighth, respectively. Smith ran a time of 30:05, while Haji recorded a time of 30:10. Fagan, Smith and Haji automatically qualified for the NCAA's as individual competitors. Also scoring for the Friars were seniors Joe Dionne (Oshawa, Ontario) and Liam Reale (Hospital, Ireland). Dionne placed 25th (31:01), while Reale finished 27th (31:05).
The women's team (94 points) finished six points behind second-place Columbia (88 points) and seven points behind first-place Boston College (87 points) in the 6K race. The top two teams automatically qualified for the NCAA's. Senior All-American Fiona Crombie (Christchurch, New Zealand) continued her impressive season, winning the individual crown in a time of 20:27. In a close race from start to finish, Crombie was able to sprint the last 100 yards, crossing the finish line two seconds ahead of Columbia's Lisa Stublic and Caroline Bierbaum.
For the Friars, graduate Aine Hoban (Wakefield, England) was the team's second highest finisher as she placed in the top-10. Hoban recorded a time of 20:45 to finish sixth overall. Junior Meghan Owen (Danielson, Conn.) finished 15th overall in a time of 21:18, while freshman Katie DiCamillo (Garden City, N.Y.) recorded a 33rd-place finish in a time of 21:50. Freshman Michelle Childs (Cameron, Ontario) also scored for the Friars, finishing 39th (22:03). Crombie and Hoban automatically qualified for the NCAA's as individual competitors
The NCAA Championships will be held on Monday, November 21 in Terre Haute, Indiana.
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (10,000 meters)Top-10 Finishers
1. Richard Kiplagat Iona 29:112.Martin Fagan PC 29:153. Ben True Dartmouth 30:034. Harbert Okuti Iona 30:035. Max Smith PC 30:056. Mohamed Khadraoui Iona 30:077. Alec Wall Dartmouth 30:078. Ahmed Haji PC 30:109. Mike Hanlon Colgate 30:1110. Stephen Chemlany Iona 30:17
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25.Joe Dionne PC 31:0127. Liam Reale PC 31:0549. Nick Weidman PC 31:3482. Matt Kinback PC 32:20
MEN'S TEAM RESULTS (TOP 10 OF 37)1. Iona 332. Dartmouth 503. Providence 674. Cornell 1045. Brown 181 Columbia 1817. Army 2608. Harvard 3229. Boston College 32910. Yale 365
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (6,000 meters)Top-10 Finishers1.Fiona Crombie PC 20:272. Lisa Stublic Columbia 20:293. Caroline Bierbaum Columbia 20:294. Kaitlyn Gwyther Quinnipiac 20:305. Lindsey Scherf Harvard 20:346. Aine Hoban PC 20:457. Melanie Schorr Dartmouth 20:518. Lidsay Donaldson Yale 20:549. Maria Cicero BC 21:0010. Laurel Burdick BC 21:08
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15.Meghan Owen PC 21:1833. Katie DiCamillo PC 21:5039. Michelle Childs PC 22:0381. Katie Twarog PC 22:4790. Ashley Jensen PC 22:53
WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS (TOP 10 OF 38)1. Boston College 872. Columbia 883. Providence 944. Boston University 1605. Yale 1986. Iona 2217. Cornell 2308. Brown 2329. Harvard 271 Dartmouth 271