Teams: Men's Cross Country: Schedule & Results

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NESCAC Championship
Sunday, November 1, 2009
At Manchester, CT (Wickham Park)

Results

Jesse Faller led the Jumbos to their best finish at the NESCAC race in four years

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- The Tufts men's cross country team ran third at the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship Race on Sunday, finishing just two points out of second place. The Jumbos were led by senior Jesse Faller (Burlington, MA), who placed fourth overall.

With four finishers in the top 25, the Jumbos accumulated a score of 90. Second-place Amherst finished at 88. Williams College easily won the men's conference title with a score of 40. The third-place finish is the best for Tufts since 2005.

Running a five-mile course at Wickham Park, Faller finished in a 26:21 time. He was three seconds behind third-place finisher Josephat Koima from Williams. Faller was third at last year's NESCAC's and 12th in 2007.

Tufts received outstanding performances from freshmen Kyle Marks (Carmel, IN) and Matt Rand (Cape Elizabeth, ME) in the first championship race of their collegiate careers. Marks was second for Tufts and 16th overall in 27:15, while Rand placed third for the Jumbos and 18th overall with a 27:20 finish.

Junior Jeff Ragazzini (Wilton, CT) also scored well for Tufts, racing over the course in 27:26 for 21st place. Senior Nick Welch (Seattle, WA) was the fifth Tufts finisher and 32nd overall (27:44). The race included 121 competitors overall.

Coach Ethan Barron's team continues its championship schedule by racing in the ECAC's next Saturday at Williams.

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