RESULTS
MANCHESTER, N.H. (October
27, 2013) – The Franklin Pierce University
men's cross country team continued its amazing fall season on
Sunday by finishing second at the 2013 Northeast-10 Conference
Championship at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
It was the highest finish at the
NE-10 championship in program history, as the Ravens are competing
in just their second season at the varsity level since being
reinstituted in 2012. The Ravens logged a team score of 70 points,
just 13 shy of Stonehill, who won the team championship.
All five Ravens that counted
towards the team score finished among the top-21 competitors to
earn All-NE-10 accolades, including junior Antoine Gisore
(Concord, N.H.) and sophomore Makopa Rugabirwa
(Concord, N.H.), who both garnered first-team honors by
finishing in fifth and sixth place, respectively.
Gisore finished in a time of 25:43,
while Rugabirwa crossed the finish line just three seconds behind
at 25:46. Gisore's split over the race was 3:13, while
Rugabirwa's was 3:14.
The other three Ravens to earn
all-conference recognition were freshman B.J. Smith
(Concord, N.H.), freshman Dage Minors (Hamilton
Perish, Bermuda), and sophomore Colton Ham
(Webster, N.H.), as all three earned third-team honors for
finishing 18th, 20th and 21st,
respectively.
Smith's 18th place
performance came in a time of 26:13, while Minors' time was
26:14. Ham finished in a time of 26:18, as he earned All-NE-10
honors for the second time in as many seasons.
Franklin Pierce returns to action
in two weeks when the Ravens compete in the NCAA East Regional
Championship at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. A top-three team
finish in the event would enable the Ravens to qualify for the NCAA
National Championship late in November.
For more information on Franklin
Pierce men's cross country, please visit the team's
page at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu. To
follow the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce
Athletics on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports),
Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics)
and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens).
Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce cross country apparel can
do so on the athletic department's online store at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)
