Results: Men | Women
MILTON, NY – Two weeks after each finishing second at the Skyline Conference Championships, the Maritime College men's and women's cross country teams returned to the Hudson Valley Sports Dome on Saturday for the ECAC Championships. The men's squad had another strong showing, placing second overall. The Privateer women, meanwhile, ended up fifth in the team standings.
Leading the Maritime men were
Jack Lehnhardt (Dunkirk, MD) and
Colby James Elwell (Charlestown, RI), who both finished among the top seven. Lehnhardt was fourth in a time of 28:04.4, while Elwell's 8000-meter clocking of 28:46.5 was good for seventh place.
Jake Mundok (Lewes, DE) and
Patrick Wisti (Ronkonkoma, NY), meanwhile, placed 20
th and 21
st overall. Mundok's time was 30:03.5, and Wisti completed the course in 30:07.1.
Declan O'Connor (Westfield, NJ) was the Privateers' fifth finisher. He grabbed 39
th place in 32:23.3.
The Privateers' team score of 69 points was good for second among the eight full squads. Vassar won the men's team title with 36 points.
On the women's side, Maritime had a team score of 131 points, which placed the Privateers fifth out of 10 squads. St. Joseph's (LI) placed five in the top eight to win the ECAC team championship with 24 points.
Rebecca Zareva (Allen, TX) as Maritime's top finisher in the women's race. She ran 6000 meters in 27:44.6 to place 12
th. Her sister,
Rachel Zareva (Allen, TX), was 17
th in 28:13.3, while
Aisling Donnelly (New City, NY) captured 29
th place in 31:36.0.
Charlotte Anich (Flushing, NY) finished 32
nd with a 32:06.5 clocking, and
Caravel Losch (Butler, PA) took 41
st in 33:69.8.
Maritime concludes the season next Saturday at the NCAA Niagara Regional, which will be hosted by Geneso at the National Warplane Museum. The men's race starts at 11 a.m., followed by the women's race at 12 p.m.
