XC Championships at Saint Joseph's College
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Contact: Deb Reardon
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Date: 10/29/05Home Course Gives St. Joe's Runners Edge
STANDISH, MAINE - Saint Joseph's College hosted and won the first XC
Championship for the Association of Division III Independents Northeast
Region on Saturday morning. Participating schools included Green Mountain
College (VT), UMaine Presque Isle, Mitchell College (CT) and Newbury College
(MA). The St. Joe's men had a team score of 31 and the women had a 22.
Presque Isle took second place in the men's race with a team score of 42 and
Green Mountain had 48 points for the second place spot in the women's race.
Presque Isle's Jeff Sprague (Waldoborough, ME) was the individual winner
with a 28:44 on the men's side while St. Joe's Sarah Willis (Buckland, MA)
took the women's race with a time of 20:49.In the men's 8k run, Herrel Siller (Palo Alto, CA) of Newbury College took
second with a score of 29:20 and the Monks packed well, just 6 seconds
later, with Matt Ferguson (South Windsor, CT) in 3rd, Isaac Worrall (Gorham,
ME) in 4th and Ryan Prescott (Pittsfield, NH) in 5th place. Other notables
for St. Joe's were Tony Myatt (Portland, ME) in 8th, Kevin McKim (North
Attleboro, MA ) in 11th, Dylan Frazier (York Beach, ME) in 15th, and Bob
Eliason ( North Yarmouth, ME) in16th. Also finishing for the Monks were
Ryan Ward (Dresden, ME) in 21st place and Stephen Dziadosz (Lincoln, RI) in
22nd place.Michelle Phillips (Riverview, NB) took second place in the women's 5k run
with a time of 22:53. Newbury College's Jaye Weldon (North Attleboro, MA)
finished in third (25:11). Close behind were St. Joe's Jasmine Smith
(Standish, ME) in 4th, Aubrey Gray (Winthrop, MA) in 5th, Suzanne Connelly
(Hingham, MA) in 7th, and Sara Forrest (Westport Island, ME) in 11th.
Rounding out the SJC line-up were Michelle Sanborn (Standish, ME), Robin
Caron (Portage Lake, ME) and Shannon Flynn (Manchester, NH)The Association of Division III Independents consists of 18 NCAA Division
III independent institutions which have joined together to recognize
student-athletes at member institutions and to provide exempted postseason
championship competition.