Posted: Oct 18, 2010
Full
Results
Springfield, Mass. – The Endicott women’s cross country captured their first team victory of the season at the Western New England College (WNEC) Invitational, beating out nine other teams with a score of 27 points. On the men’s side, junior \#Greg Payne\# (North Attleboro, Mass.) claimed the number one overall finish with a time of 27:18.75.
Springfield, Mass. – The Endicott women’s cross country captured their first team victory of the season at the Western New England College (WNEC) Invitational, beating out nine other teams with a score of 27 points. On the men’s side, junior \#Greg Payne\# (North Attleboro, Mass.) claimed the number one overall finish with a time of 27:18.75.
The women’s team had three of their five
scoring runners finish in the top 10 with sophomore \#Holly Davis\#
(Guilford, Conn.) crossing the line 23 seconds behind the top
finisher in second place overall. Davis clocked in at
20:39.25. Her time was over a full minute better than when she
last raced at the WNEC Invitational. Right behind her in
fourth place and eighth place were freshman \#Kira DiCaprio\#
(Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and \#Jillian Mendes\# (Waterbury Center, Vt.)
at 20:51.84 and 21:13.62.
Rounding out the scoring for the women’s
top five were \#Kim Shepherd\# (Essex, Conn.) and \#Brittaney
Plante\# (Nashuan, N.H.) registering times of 21:42.34 and
21:51.12, respectively.
Senior \#Sarah James\# (Pawtucket, R.I.) and
sophomore \#Jennifer Dickerson\# (Windham, N.H.) beat their
previous bests on the course by over a minute with times of
23:19.84 and 24:04.12.
In
the men’s race, Payne beat his 2009 time on this course by 13
seconds as he took the title of number one overall finisher for the
first time this season. He beat the number two runner from
WNEC by 33 seconds. The only other Endicott male runner to
race was junior \#Tom Rofrano\# (Sayville, N.Y.) who clocked in at
32:41.91 in 41st place.
The Blue and Green have two weeks off until The
Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) Championship on Saturday,
October 30 in Bristol, R.I. at Colt State Park.
