MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Seventh Annual Lt. Travis J. Fuller Invitational

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Buzzards Bay, Mass.

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. --  UMass Dartmouth took top team honors at the Seventh Annual Massachusetts Maritime Lt. Travis J. Fuller Women’s Cross Country Invitational on Saturday morning that was run alongside the Cape Cod Canal on the Academy’s campus.

The Corsairs placed four runners in the top nine to post a score of 32 points and outdistance both runner-up Emerson (86 points) and third place Emmanuel (88 points) over the three mile layout, as Meaghan Bohigian (18:51), Courtney Testa (18:54), Samantha Roderigues (19:38) and Katie Sheehan (19:51) placed second, third, sixth and ninth for the winners.  Samantha Hurley completed the scoring for UMass Dartmouth with a 12^th place finish (20:24).

Bridgewater State senior Molly Rouillard (Dartmouth, Mass.) took top individual honors with a time of 18:25, while the trio of sophomore Georgia Dixon (19:31), junior Heather Hoglund (Groton, Mass.) (19:36) and freshman Ali Doukas (19:42) placed fourth, fifth and eighth, respectively, to pace Emerson.  Freshman Ameena Dye (Syracuse, N.Y.) was seventh individually with a time of 19:40 for the Saints, while Suffolk freshman Alexandra Petsuck (Drums, Pa.) rounded out the top 10 with a time of 19:57.

Bridgewater State was fourth in the final team competition with a score of 115 points, while Framingham State (183 points), Mount Ida (196 points), Curry (198 points), New York Maritime (199 points), Suffolk (221 points) and Massachusetts Maritime (223 points) rounded out the top 10.  Newbury (266 points) and Eastern Nazarene (269 points) rounded out the team scoring in the event.

Senior Emily Burbank (Yarmouthport, Mass.) posted the top individual finish for the host Buccaneers, as she placed 20^th with a time of 20:56.  Freshman Tenley Gillett (Manchester, N.H.) (23:07), sophomores Jenelle Piche (Coventry, R.I.) (23:14) and Liz Leonardi (Sandwich, Mass.) (23:42) and junior Kaylin Korejwa (Charlotte, Vt.) (24:14) rounded out the scoring for Massachusetts Maritime by placing 53^rd, 54^th, 57^th and 64^th, respectively.

Massachusetts Maritime returns to action next Saturday morning by heading to North Dartmouth, Mass. to participate in the UMass Dartmouth Buddy Harris Invitational that begins at 11:15 a.m.