Stonehill Cruises to Eighth NE-10 Championship
Carmone leads six
All-Conference performers for Skyhawks
with second-place finish overall
Freshman Erin Carmone |
COLCHESTER, Vt. (October 25, 2009) - Stonehill College women's cross country team, ranked first in this week's U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II East Region poll, captured its eighth Northeast-10 Conference Championship today, hosted by Saint Michael's College. Freshman Erin Carmone (Riverside, R.I./East Providence) led six All-Conference performances for the Skyhawks with a second-place finish overall.
Stonehill took the team title, its eighth in the last ten years and first since 2007, with 37 points to outpace 2008 champions University of Massachusetts Lowell with 53. The Skyhawks placed four runners in the top ten and all five scorers were in the top 13 with their seven runners in all coming in within the top 30 out of 158 runners. Southern Connecticut State University, led by first-place finisher Laura Brustolon (Mystic, Conn.) rounded out the top three with 127 points. Brustolon captured NE-10 Runner of the Year honors by completing the 5-kilometer race in 18:03.8.
Carmone was the top freshman finisher as she completed the 5K in 18:23.2 for second overall to earn first team All-Northeast-10 honors. Sophomore Jill Alves (Whitman, Mass./Whitman-Hanson Regional) placed fourth overall in 18:59.6 to earn first team All-NE-10 honors for the second-straight year.
Freshmen Kristen Veit (Easthampton, Mass./Holyoke Catholic), Jessica Jarrard (Shrewsbury, Mass./Hudson Catholic) and Lynley Joynt (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) all earned second team All-Conference honors in their first NE-10 Championship. Veit placed eighth overall in 19:08.5, while Jarrard rounded out the top ten in 19:10.4 and Joynt took 13th in 19:20.5.
Sophomore Jill Alves |
Junior Lindsay Booth (Franklin, Mass./Franklin) rounded out Stonehill's All-Conference performers with third team honors with her 21st-place finish in 19:31.0. Freshman Caroline McBride (North Reading, Mass./North Reading) placed 27th overall with a time of 19:42.2 as all seven Skyhawk runners completed the race within a span of 1:19.
Stonehill has won eight of the ten NE-10 women's championships since 2000. The Skyhawks also won titles in 2000 through 2004 and then back-to-back in 2006 and 2007.
Stonehill swept both the men's and women's championships at the event with the Skyhawk men rallying for their fourth team title. It marks the third time Stonehill has swept the men's and women's crowns (2004 & 2007).
Stonehill is off again for two weeks before competing in the NCAA Division II East Regional, hosted by UMass Lowell, on Sunday, November 8, at Franklin Park, in Dorchester, Mass., at 1:30 p.m.
