UMass Lowell 13th at New England Championship

Saturday, October 12

Boston, MA

TBA

University of Massachusetts Lowell

NEICAAA Championship

Team Results Individual Results

Photo by: Bob Ellis

10/12/2013 5:54:00 PM | Men's Cross Country/Track & Field

Abdi places 53rd in field of 279

TEAM RESULTS | INDIVIDUAL RESULTS | SUBVARSITY RESULTS

Senior Omar Abdi (Roxbury, Mass.) placed 53^rd overall to lead the UMass Lowell men's cross country team to 13^th place at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championship Saturday at Franklin Park.

UMass Lowell scored 370 points (53, 63, 75, 86, 93 – 139, 161) and placed seventh among NCAA Division I schools. Central Connecticut State won the team title with 74 points while Northeastern (120) took second. Dartmouth (133), Boston University (196) and Middlebury (214) completed the top five.

The field consisted of 279 runners representing 41 NCAA Division I, II and III teams.

Only 21 seconds separated UMass Lowell's top five runners. Abdi ran the 8K course in 25 minutes, 36 seconds while junior Ben Pare (Methuen, Mass.) placed 63^rd overall in 25:43; and freshman Connor Doyle (Swansea, Mass.) 75^th in 25:48.

Junior Conor Habib (Methuen, Mass.) took 86^th in 25:52 and sophomore Padraic Donovan (Lowell, Mass.) placed 93^rd in 25:57 to complete the scoring for UMass Lowell.

Senior Brian Donovan (Dracut, Mass.) took 139^th in 26:27 and senior Drew Butler (The Woodlands, Texas) 161^st in 26:41 to cap the River Hawks' seven.

Michael Biwott of American International College won the individual title as he covered the course in 23:43 and established a 22-second lead on the remainder of the field.

In the junior varsity race, UMass Lowell placed fifth behind stellar runs from sophomore Lucas Parsons (Methuen, Mass.), who posted a time of 26:07 to place 11^th among 200 runners; and sophomore Zachary Ganshirt (Walpole, Mass.), who placed 22^nd overall and 19^th among scoring runners in 26:27.

Senior Zach Schaeffer (Hudson, Mass.) placed 29^th/24^th in 26:32 and was followed by senior Tyler Sullivan (Methuen, Mass.), who took 40^th/32^nd in 26:39; and junior Aaron Martin (Nashua, N.H.), who placed 43^rd/35^th in 26:40.

UMass Lowell enters the Brown University Rothenberg Run next Friday.