MacVarish, Andrews Lead Men's Cross Country To Runner-Up Team Finish At Ninth Annual Lt. Travis J. Fuller Invitational
MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Ninth Annual Lt. Travis J. Fuller Invitational
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Buzzards Bay, Mass.
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- Junior Mark Gulesian (Miami, Fla.) took top individual honors and set a course record with a time of 26:54 over the five mile layout for the Beavers, while Babson seniors Brian deLeon (Princeton, N.J.), Nathan Kolman (Long Grove, Ill.) and AJ Skains (Colorado Springs, Colo.) followed in respective second, third and fourth places with times of 27:10, 28:08 and 28:12. Sophomore Ian MacLean (South Hamilton, Mass.) rounded out the scoring for the winners by placing fifth with a time of 28:15, while sophomore Chris deLeon (Princeton, N.J.) and freshman Tim Hatzopoulos (Park Ridge, Ill.) recorded the other top individual performances for the Beavers with respective finishes of sixth (28:49) and eighth (29:08) place.
Massachusetts Maritime took runner up honors in the team competition a score of 66 points, as freshman James MacVarish (Braintree, Mass.) and junior Brenton Andrews (Hubbardston, Mass.) posted respective ninth and 10th place individual performances with times of 29:30 and 29:54. Juniors Tyler Brady (Woburn, Mass.) and Godfred Mbengam (Randolph, Mass.) finished 15th and 16th, respectively, with times of 30:59 and 31:10 for the Buccaneers, who also received a 24th place individual finish (32:54) from senior Steven Migridichian (Shrewsbury, Mass.).
Rivier senior Alec Davis (Amherst, N.H.) rounded out the top 10 individual performers in the event, as he finished seventh with a time of 29:05 while leading the Raiders to a third place team standing with 95 points. Emerson placed fourth in the final team standings with a score of 106 points, while Suffolk (142) and Eastern Nazarene (166) followed in fifth and sixth place. Newbury (169) and Mount Ida (195) rounded out the team scoring in seventh and eighth place, while Framingham State did not have a team score for the competition.
Massachusetts Maritime heads to Biddeford, Maine next Saturday morning to compete in the University of New England Invitational that begins at 10:45 a.m.
