Tommie Sports - Men's Cross Country

Men's CC gets third of 22 in New York race

3rd of 22
at Albany (N.Y.) Invite, October 18, 2008

The St. Thomas men's cross country team put three runners in the top 15 and had an excellent 43-second Player pic split among its first five as it placed third of 22 teams at Saturday's SUNY-Albany Invitational. The competition involved mostly Division I and II scholarship programs.

Marist took first with 23 points followed by D-III's Brandeis (91), St. Thomas (113), Colgate (166), Albany (190) and D-III's Middlebury (196).

The first five Tommies all had personal-best times for 8,000 meters (4.97 miles) in cross country -- senior Matt Boumeester placed 10th in 25:23; freshman Ben Sathre was 12th in 25:25; senior Brian Sames took 15th in 25:31; junior Mike Connell was 32nd in 25:53; and senior Rorak Hooten was 48th in 26:06. Freshman Nick Nygaard took 84th in 26:41 and freshman Tyler Iverson was 90th in 26:44.

The Tommies will compete next Nov. 1 at the MIAC Championships at St. Paul's Como Golf Course.

PHOTO: Matt Boumeester

Click here for complete results:

http://www.finishright.com/XC/08/UAXC08.htm?SPSID=70359&SPID=8008&DB_OEM_ID=15800

The rest of the St. Thomas team competed at the UW-LaCrosse Invite in West Salem, Wis., and were led by junior George Williams, who ran 27:31 and placed 158th in a field of 395 finishers:

156. George Williams 27:31.

181. Jason Mansur 27:42.3

189. Kyle Brandon 27:49.2

205. Jim Leschke 27:56.8

210. John Sunder 27:59.1

211. Tony Gerten 28:00.6

217. Spencer Siddons 28:05.5

235. Evan Schwartz 28:17.4

250. Andrew Heitzman 28:28.2

255. David Erstad 28:33.5

259. Crawford Hubbell 28:35.4

279. Nick Michalek 28:56.1