New England Collegiate XC Championships

A fabulous day to run cross country: blue skies, wispy white clouds, warm sun, mild cooling breeze.

In the Women's Varsity race, URI's Kristen Coon sprinted to a 10 yard lead early, and led through the mile, with Marisa Clapp (Murdock High '00) and Aly Venti in the chase pack. Marisa led at two, followed closely by Coon and Venti. Clapp and Venti separated from the pack and, with 200 yards to go, Clapp had 25 yards on Venti and looked like the eventual winner. However, Venti crept closer and, with a mere 20 yards to go, closed the remaining 5 yard gap to pull even and squeeze by Clapp to win by a step as Clapp collapsed across the finish line.

Former Central Mass High Schoolers we found in the results:

Marissa Clapp ( Murdock '00 and Springfield '04 ) College All American 2x
Caitlin Clark ( St Peter Marian '02 and Assumption '06 ) 4x T&G All Star, CM D1 XC Champ '01
Amanda Dahlberg ( Gardner '01 and U Mass Amherst '05 ) Distance
Julie Durkin ( North Middlesex '01 and Assumption '05 )
Jenny Farrell ( Algonquin '02 and Bentley '06 ) "4x T&G All Star, 2nd CM D1 XC, 20th State XC '01"
Jessica Iannacci ( Lunenburg '02 and Boston U '06 ) "2x T&G All Star, 2nd CM D2 XC '01 and 2nd State D2 XC '01" and BU's top finisher.
Kate Saba ( Shrewsbury '02 and Assumption '06)
Cara Valeri ( Wachusett '02 and Boston College '06 ) "4x T&G All Star, 3rd D1 CM XC '01"
Rachel Whitney ( Littleton '00 and Assumption '04 )

Brown took team honors with 105 points, followed by Trinity and Middlebury with 130. The world's coolest college, Smith College, placed 34th overall. Oh well.

PLACE TmPl NO.  NAME               SCHOOL           YEAR time  PACE
===== ==== ==== ================== ================ ==== ===== =====
    1    1   66 Aly Venti          Amherst          2004 17:44  5:42
    2    2  665 Marisa Clapp       Springfield      2004 17:45  5:42
    3    3  244 Kristen Meyer      Univ Connecticut 2005 17:56  5:46
    4    4  699 Christina Kane     Trinity          2005 18:00  5:47
    5    5  576 Kristen Coon       UnivRhode Island 2006 18:02  5:47
    6    6  466 Jessica Manzer     Middlebury            18:06  5:49
    7    7  241 Kyle MacQueen      Univ Connecticut 2007 18:07  5:49
    8    8    3 Shauneen Garrahan  Amherst          2007 18:07  5:49
    9    9  319 Beverly Whelan     Harvard               18:09  5:50
   18   18  107 Jessica Iannacci   BostonUniversity 2006 18:20 5:53   
   98   97  103 Cara Valeri        Boston College   2006 19:21  6:13
  117  116   77 Jenny Farrell      Bentley          2006 19:31  6:16
  166  163  388 Amanda Dahlberg    UMass Amherst    2005 19:58  6:25
  197  193   40 Kate Saba          Assumption       2007 20:20  6:32
  216  212   19 Caitlyn Clark      Assumption       2006 20:37  6:37
  245  238   17 Julie Durkin       Assumption       2004 21:08  6:47
  254  247   15 Rachel Whitney     Assumption       2007 21:26  6:53

Former Central Mass High Schoolers we found in the women's sub-varsity results:

Stephanie Hackler ( Wachusett '01 and Assumption '05)
Julia Johns (Wachusett '02 and Bentley '06)
Kristen Kelley (Wachusett/Jefferson MA, Dartmouth '06)
Allie Yanikoski ( Bromfield '02 and Bowdoin '06 ) 2:16 HS 880

PLACE TmPl NO.  NAME               SCHOOL           YEAR time  PACE
===== ==== ==== ================== ================ ==== ===== =====
    1    1  162 Annie Hatch        Brown            2006 18:41  6:00
    2       584 Lindsay Vieira     UnivRhode Island 2006 18:53  6:04
    3    2  169 Michol Monaghan    Brown            2005 19:03  6:07
    4    3  157 Heather Driscoll   Brown            2007 19:13  6:10
    5    4  171 Jilane Rodgers     Brown            2006 19:20  6:12
    6    5  465 Jenny Jorvig       Middlebury            19:22  6:13
    7    6  166 Katherine Kosub    Brown            2004 19:23  6:13
    8    7  462 Margery Glover     Middlebury            19:23  6:13
    9    8  302 Lesley Irvine      Harvard               19:24  6:14
   68       262 Kristen Kelley     Dartmouth             20:44  6:39
   84   71  136 Allie Yanikoski    Bowdoin          2006 20:55  6:43
  104   86   79 Julia Johns        Bentley          2006 21:06  6:46
  213  147   29 Stephanie Hackler  Assumption       2005 22:49  7:20

In the Men's Varsity race, Pat Moulton did the pace-setting work through most of the race, followed by teammate Dylan Wykes and Brown's Pat Tarpy. At three, Tarpy looked like death warmed over, but kept churning. Tarpy took over while climbing through the hill for the second time and opened up enough lead to hold off the late charges of Wykes and Moulton.

Top Central Mass finisher was the constantly improving, Auburn HS grad, Mario Fraioli, who ran with the chase pack for most of the race. Tim Curran, former Central Mass HS XC champ, came home 11th overall and 4th man for the very strong PC team.

PC topped the team race with a low of 40 points, followed by Brown with 59, BC with 127 and Stonehill at 202.

Ryan Agnew ( David Prouty '02 Bentley '06 ) 4:33 HS mile
Tim Curran ( St John's '00 and Providence '04 ) Grad Student
Chris Hopkins (St Peter Marian '03 and Southern Maine '07) 9:40 2 mile at 2003 state HS meet
Nate Jenkins (Narragansett '00 and U Mass Lowell Grad)
Adam Johnson ( Oakmont '02 and Merrimack College '06 ) 9:50 HS 2 mile
Mike Killam ( Groton Dunstable '00 and Bentley '04 )
Jeremy Madow (Maynard '03 and Assumption '07)
Andrew McCarron ( Lunenburg '02 and U Mass Amherst '06)
Sean McKeon ( Millbury '01 and Stonehill '05 )
Dan Navaroli (Fitchburg HS '00 and Fitchburg State '04)
Ryan Parker ( Bromfield '02 and Brandeis '06 ) 1:58 HS 880
Ben Peisch ( Bromfield '01 and Bowdoin '05 )
Dave Raymond ( Wachusett '00 and Keene State '05 ) 4:26 HS mile

PLACE TmPl NO.  NAME               SCHOOL           time  PACE  YEAR
===== ==== ==== ================== ================ ===== ===== ====
    1    1  170 Patrick Tarpy      Brown            23:57  4:52 2005
    2    2  479 Dylan Wykes        Providence       24:00  4:52 2005
    3    3  472 Pat Moulton        Providence       24:03  4:53 2005
    4    4  102 Jochen Dieckfoss   BostonUniversity 24:26  4:58 2004
    5    5   87 Byron Gartrell     Boston College   24:31  4:59 2004
    6    6  158 Jeff Gaudette      Brown            24:33  4:59 2005
    7    7  598 Mario Fraioli      Stonehill        24:38  5:00 2004
    8    8  465 Jamie Carmichael   Providence       24:40  5:01 2004
   11   11  466 Tim Curran         Providence       24:47  5:02
   16   15   63 Ryan Agnew         Bentley          25:00  5:05 2005
   27   26  369 Nate Jenkins       UMass Lowell     25:13  5:07 2004
   37   36  603 Sean McKeon        Stonehill        25:28  5:10 2005
   46   45   70 Mike Killam        Bentley          25:39  5:13 2004
   54   53  395 Adam Johnson       Merrimack        25:50  5:15 2006
  108  107  355 Andrew McCarron    UMass Amherst    26:22  5:21 2005
  128  127  143 Ryan Parker        Brandeis         26:34  5:24 2006
  173  172  126 Benjamin Peisch    Bowdoin          27:01  5:29 2005
  223  222  572 Chris Hopkins      Southern Maine   27:39  5:37 2007
  224  223  334 David Raymond      Keene State      27:40  5:37 2005
  235  234  273 Dan Navaroli       Fitchburg State  27:48  5:39 2004
  263  262   27 Jeremy Madow       Assumption       28:16  5:44 2007

Former Central Mass High Schoolers we found in the results:

Steve Batcheller (Grafton '03 and Bentley '07)
Jon Drappi ( St John's and Trinity )

PLACE TmPl NO.  NAME               SCHOOL           time  PACE
===== ==== ==== ================== ================ ===== =====
    1    1  168 Eamon Quick        Brown            25:27  5:10
    2    2  153 Pat Clark          Brown            25:38  5:12
    3    3  151 Chris Burke        Brown            25:40  5:13
    4    4  154 Matt Crimmin       Brown            25:44  5:13
    5    5  244 George McArdle     Dartmouth        25:44  5:14
    6    6  243 Pat Martha         Dartmouth        25:45  5:14
    7    7  164 Nick Neely         Brown            25:48  5:14
    8       473 Ben Pollock        Providence       25:55  5:16
    9    8  493 Todd Raymond       Quinnipiac       25:57  5:16
   61   48   64 Steve Batcheller   Bentley          27:36  5:36
   97       611 Jonathan Drappi    Trinity          28:19  5:45

New England Collegiate XC Championships

Franklin Park, Boston, MA, Friday, October 10, 2003

Franklin Park, Boston, MA,
Friday, October 10, 2003