Results: Men | Women
KINGS PARK, NY – Chase Miller (West Islip, NY) of the Maritime College men's cross country team won the individual title at the St. Joseph's LI Invitational from Sunken Meadow State Park on Saturday, his third straight meet finishing first overall. With Miller leading the way, the Privateers ended up fourth in the team standings. The Maritime women, meanwhile, placed eighth.
Running on an 8000-meter course, Miller posted a time of 26:52.90. He was nearly a minute faster than the second-place finisher.
Mickey Beser (Bel Air, MD) made it two Privateers in the top 10 with his eighth-place showing. Beser's time was 29:19.56.
Neil Landow (Pamlico County, NC), meanwhile, was 23
rd in 30:46.35.
Michael Abbamonte (Bohemia, NY) took 55
th with a 33:18.32 clocking, while
Jack Queen's (Mamaroneck, NY) 33:37.66 effort was good for 58
th place.
As a team, Maritime collected 145 points to grab fourth place overall. The Privateers were the top Division III squad in the 17-team field. All three of the programs that beat Maritime—St. Thomas Aquinas, Staten Island and Queens—are Division II institutions.
The Privateer women tallied 248 total points, placing them eighth out of 18 teams. Among Division III programs, Maritime was third, finishing behind only Hunter and St. Joseph's LI.
Cindy Chen (Huntington Station, NY) ran 5000 meters in 22:31.39, which ranked 20
th overall.
Erin Doyle (Munich, Germany) grabbed 43
rd place in 24:26.84, while
Eily Kochon (Ulster Park, NY) was 50
th in 25:07.54.
Emily Bryant (Hilliard, OH) (66
th, 26:51.14) and
Olivia Capobianco (Massapequa, NY) (69
th, 27:07.30) rounded out the Privateers' scoring quintet.
This was Maritime's final event before the Skyline Conference Championships on Oct. 25. The first race gets underway at 11 a.m. from the Stony Brook University Cross Country Course.
