Sathre leads Men's CC to strong fourth at Ohio race

4th of 28
at Oberlin Inv. (M), October 18, 2009

St. Thomas beat two higher ranked teams and placed fourth out of 28 squads in Saturday's Intra-Region Rumble men's cross country race in Oberlin, Ohio.

No. 18-ranked New York U. took first with 53, just ahead of No. 5-ranked Allegheny's 56.

No. 20-rated Carnegie-Mellon (98), No. 33-ranked St. Thomas (114), Elizabethtown (166). Mount Union (178), No. 20 Ohio Northern (180) and No. 31 Johns Hopkins (225) took took third through eighth place.

Sophomore Ben Sathre (25:03) placed fourth and senior Brian Sames (25:19) placed ninth out of 243 varsity finishers and had career-best times for 8,000-meters to lead the Tommies. Sathre had the best place out of 115 sophomores or freshmen in the race.

Senior Mike Connell was 19th in 25:37; soph Tyler Iverson was 31st in 25:59; senior George Williams placed 51st in 26:16; soph Jim Leschke was 150th in 27:34; and junior Nick Michalak was 166th in 27:51.

The Tommies also had a squad compete at Saturday's UW-LaCrosse Invitational. In a field of 462 finishers, senior Greg Dowe was clocked in 27:23 and placed 191st, while freshman Brian Farley was 225th in 27:49. Other UST runners to place in the top 300 were senior Tony Gerten, 272nd in 28:15; freshman Pat Bryant, 272nd in 28:20; freshman Will Roberson, 283rd in 28:24; and freshman Stu Lombardo, 300th in 28:43.

St. Thomas competes again Oct. 31 in the MIAC Championships.

Click here for complete Oberlin results:

http://www.goyeo.com/documents/2009/10/17/varsitymen.html?id=708

Click here for complete LaCrosse results:

http://www.uwlax.edu/athletics/mcrosscountry/results/men_individual.pdf