XC shines at Suffolk Invite, captures Battle for Boston Common title

Hundreds gathered at Franklin Park for Suffolk College’s annual Cross Nation Invitational on Oct. 15. 

22 groups from throughout New England and past competed within the occasion, which started with the ladies’s 6k, adopted by the lads’s 8k. 

Suffolk had spectacular performances throughout the board, with the ladies’s group coming in fifth place total with a rating of 177 and the lads’s group coming in third with a rating of 115. 

Boston College inched out forward of Suffolk with a first-place rating of 17 for the lads’s group and a second-place rating of 56 for the ladies’s. Northeastern College left with the first-place title for the ladies’s group with a rating of 23.

Each the lads’s and girls’s groups crushed Emerson within the “Battle for the Boston Widespread,” a standard twin meet of the occasion. Each groups’ scores are derived from their total efficiency within the bigger races. The ladies’s group defeated the Lions 19-41, whereas the lads delivered a 16-47 blow to Emerson.

Tim Barry, a junior and captain of the lads’s group, earned the Commonwealth Coast Convention’s title of Runner of the Week for his efficiency within the occasion. Barry completed eighth within the males’s 8k with a time of 26:40, a private finest. 

Barry mentioned he was impressed with the group’s total efficiency. He famous that though some members of the group had been underneath the climate previous to the competitors, all of them pushed by way of to steer Suffolk to a strong end.  Barry was additionally optimistic in regards to the upcoming CCC championships, set to happen on Oct. 29 in Biddeford, Maine.

“Give us two extra onerous weeks and we’re assured to win the convention,” Barry mentioned.

Fellow captain and senior Justin Turner re-enforced Suffolk’s successes within the races and shared Barry’s optimism in regards to the upcoming championship.

“We positively confirmed out at the moment … regardless of having no races within the final two weeks, we weren’t left behind,” Turner mentioned. 

Ellie Davis, a 2022 graduate, completed eighth total within the girls’s 6k with a time of 23:56, with graduate student-athlete Skyler Goodman following shut behind in eleventh with a time of 24:03.

The Rams can have every week off to organize for convention championships and afterward will head to Bowdoin Faculty for the NCAA East Regionals on Nov. 12. 

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