CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The University of Vermont men's cross country team competed in the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown hosted by Boston College Friday afternoon.
UVM (506 pts.) finished 19th in the 23-team field, paced by
Tyler Marshall who ran the 8K (4.97 miles) in 25:43. The winning school was Syracuse (37 pts.) who had all five scoring runners place inside the top 15, including runner-up Aidan Tooker. Amon Kemboi of Campbell University was the overall winner, running a time of 24:03 to cross before Tooker.
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COACH'S QUOTE
"We had some good races from several individuals. Tyler bounced back with a solid race, John and Ian ran personal times, Neville and Jack ran tough producing good finishes as well," said associate head coach
Joe Gingras. "Team-wise, we beat the teams we should have, but didn't knock off the ranked teams ahead of us. Given the strength of the field, it was a good performance, but we have high expectations for the season and were looking for a little more. Having said that, we had a lot of guys step up into the top five today who were not last time out and got it done for us."
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Marshall's time led the Catamounts and claimed 88th in the overall competition while Jack Carmody (96th) finished shortly after.
- Junior Neville Caulfield (106th) was the third UVM runner to finish with a time of 25:55.
- John Benner (107th) recorded a new personal-best with a time of 25:56, eclipsing the previous mark by three seconds.
- Ian Denis (109th) rounded out Vermont's scorers with a time of 25:58, also a personal-best, which was a 17-second improvement.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Vermont men and women return to action Saturday (Sep. 29) for the Paul Short Invitational in Pennsylvania. Lehigh University hosts the 10 a.m. race.
