GALLOWAY, N.J. – The Vermont men's and women's cross country teams both had strong performances at the 2021 America East Championship meet on Friday afternoon, hosted at the Seaview Golf Course.
The Vermont men's and women's teams each matched their finish from the 2019 conference championship meet. The UVM women grabbed second place with 67 points as UMass Lowell won the event with 44 points. The men's team edged Binghamton by two points to claim third place with 91 points. UMass Lowell won the men's meet with 22 points and Stony Brook took second place with 57 points.
RELATED LINKS
Women's 5k Results | Men's 8k Results
COACH'S QUOTE
"We're really excited about both teams' performances today," said head coach
Matt Belfield. "Being able to keep it together for these past months makes the success even more gratifying. Kudos to Lily for her All-Conference First Team nod in her first go at it and for Annemarie to grab honors for the third straight year. Matt was a beast again today, he really stuck his nose in there again to get it done. I'm so pleased for all of our seniors and fifth years that hung around to give it another chance."
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Lily Porth paced the women's team in seventh place and finished with a time of 18:09.31.
- Annemarie Martell finished just outside of the top-10 in 11th place at 18:24.03.
- The Cats had three racers finish in succession. Andie Cornish was two seconds away from stealing Second Team All-Conference honors from Maine's Emma Jourdain, but took 15th place at 18:49.18. Caroline O'Shea trailed in 16th place at 18:50.28 and Meaghan Alba was tied for 17th place with a time of 18:50.81.
- Matt Hynes was the men's top racer in eighth place at 24:57.70.
- Chris Gish came in 15th place after crossing the line at 25:18.35 and teammate Ian Denis followed in 19th place at 25:40.59.
NOTES
- The second-place finish in 2019 and this year are the women's highest in the conference championship meet since 1999.
- The men's team earned a third-place finish in the conference championship meet for the second straight season, matching its best since the 1992 season when the program was a member of the North Atlantic Conference.
- Martell is an All-Conference Second Team performer for the third consecutive year.
ALL-CONFERENCE
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW
The 2021 Division I Cross Country Championship Selection Show will be streamed at NCAA.com at 1 p.m. on Sunday (March 7). The 2021 championship will air on ESPNU. The individual and team championships are scheduled for Monday, March 15 and coverage will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET. All events will be hosted at Oklahoma State's Cross Country Course.
