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Date: September 23, 2002
Contact: Bill Sodoma

 

Men's cross country 9th out of 31 teams

NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. --

Senior captain Justin Sukiennik (Taconic/Pittsfield, Mass.) finished in 26th place out of 239 finishers for the Colby College men's cross country team at the 30th Annual UMass-Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday.

The Colby men finished in ninth place out of 31 schools with a score of 236. Coast Guard won the meet with a score of 62.

Sukiennik finished the 8,040-meter race in 26 minutes, 34.09 seconds. Junior Eric Reinauer (Granby/North Granby, Conn.) took 29th place in 26:36.88 and junior captain John Tyson (Amherst Regional/Amherst, Mass.) finished in 31st in 26:37.83. Sophomore Rich Downing (Saint John's/Stow, Mass.) came in 45th place in 27:00.63.

Trinity College's Ryan Bak won the event in 24:39.17.

Team Scores: 1. Coast Guard 62, 2. Trinity 86, 3. Connecticut College 108, 4. Amherst 138, 5. Stonehill 153, 6. Keene State 159, 7. Tufts 188, 8. New Haven 193, 9. Colby 236, 10. Southern Maine 259, 11. Eastern Connecticut 352, 12. Roger Williams 363, 13. Rhode Island College 368, 14. Westfield State 371, 15. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 413, 16. Springfield 446, 17. Mass-Dartmouth 459, 18. Maine-Presque Isle 465, 19. Babson 578, 20. Bridgewater State 604, 21. Western New England 621, 22. Brandeis 650, 23. Saint Anselm's 667, 24. Gordon 668, 25. College of Rhode Island 669, 26. Mass. Maritime 694, 27. Johnson and Wales 825, 28. Elms 849, 29. East Nazarene 921, 30. Emmanuel 946, 31. Newbury 1003.