Saturday, September 15, 2001

TRINITY CROSS COUNTRY SQUADS FINISH STRONG
AT UMASS-DARTMOUTH INVITATIONAL

North Dartmouth, Mass. - Junior Leeann Rheaume (Pittsfield, Mass.) finished fifth overall with a time of 18:02 and led the Trinity College Bantams to a second-place finish as a team in the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Women's Cross Country Invitational Meet this afternoon. The Trinity men's squad, ranked sixth in New England and 29th in the nation, finished third as a team. The Bantam women entered the race sixth in New England as well.

The Trinity men finished behind nationally-ranked opponents MIT and Tufts with 73 points to MIT's 60 and Tufts' score of 62. The women totaled 86 points, 25 behind first-place Brandeis and six ahead of third-place Connecticut College, both of which were ranked ahead of Trinity in New England.

Trinity junior co-captain Ryan Bak (Suffield, Conn.) finished third overall in the men's race with a time of 25:00, followed by classmate James Emord (Bridgewater, Mass.) in fifth at 25:13. For the women, freshman Christina Kane (Springfield, Mass.) was also a top 10 finisher, placing ninth with a time of 18:26.

TEAM RESULTS (top 6 only, 26 teams in all for men and 27 for women)

Men

1. MIT 60
2. Tufts 62
3. Trinity, Conn. 73
4. Connecticut College 117
5. Coast Guard 170
6. New Haven 181

Women

1. Brandeis 61
2. Trinity, Conn. 86
3. Connecticut College 92
4. Wesleyan 98
5. Bates 181
6. Colby 186

TRINITY INDIVIDUAL FINISHERS

Men
3. Ryan Bak, 25:00
5. James Emord, 25:13
17. Ryan Lerner, 25:50
18. James Sullivan, 25:51
30. Jonathan Drappi, 26:10
39. Steven Coakley, 26:23
113. Steven Napier, 28:23

Women
5. Leanne Rheaume, 18:02
9. Christina Kane, 18:26
17. Kristina DePeau, 18:40
24. Karen Roy, 18:55
36. Kate Klein, 19:10
46. Shannon Brennan,
19:22 50. Liz Brown, 19:27