Women’s XC finishes second at Wesleyan Invitational
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| Senior captain Allie Goldstein rounded out Bates’ top seven runners at wet Wesleyan. (Photo by Tom Leonard ’78) |
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — The Bates College women’s cross country team finished a close second out of eight teams Saturday at the Wesleyan Invitational, scoring 41 points to Connecticut College’s 35. Wesleyan came in third with 54 points, followed by Endicott (135), St. Joseph’s (L.I.) (147), Norwich (185), SUNY Delhi (189) and Albertus Magnus (235).
Running in her first race of the year, junior captain Abby Samuelson (Freeport, Maine) led four Bobcats in the top 10 over the rainy, muddy 5-kilometer course with a time of 20:09, good for fourth place overall out of 96 competitors. Junior Esther Kendall (Ridgeway, Ontario) placed seventh in 20:20, followed by junior Katie Bash (Wallingford, Pa.) in eighth at 20:34 and sophomore Alex Alberto (Concord, Mass.) in ninth at 20:35.
Rounding out Bates’ top seven runners were sophomore Chloe Bourne (Litchfield, Conn.) in 13th place with a time of 20:44, sophomore Liz Rowley (Evanston, Ill.) in 15th at 20:55 and senior captain Allie Goldstein (Needham, Mass.) in 17th at 21:02.
“We were more aggressive today versus our first meet [the Tufts Invitational], and we had a better overall team performance,” said Bates head coach Jay Hartshorn, who singled out Samuelson and Alberto for their impressive performances.
Bates next competes at Open New Englands on Oct. 11 at Franklin Park in Boston.