JOHNSON, Vt. – October 29, 2016 – Colby-Sawyer College claimed the 2016 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Men's Cross Country Championship on Saturday, October 29.

TEAM SCORES

FINAL RESULTS

TEAM BY TEAM RESULTS

Colby-Sawyer, which has finished as the runner-up the past four seasons, won the program's first title with an impressive 25 points with five runners in the top eight. The 8k championship race included 101 total runners, representing 11 schools.

UMaine-Farmington was a distant second at 87 points, while Castleton was third (88), Thomas was fourth (128), followed by Maine Maritime (141), Husson (150), Lyndon (161) UMaine-Presque Isle (178), New England College (193), Johnson State (312) and Green Mountain (333).

Freshman Peter Bakker (Barkhamsted, Conn.) led the Chargers and finished the race as runner-up in a time of 26:29.3.

Senior Scott Shaw (Norfolk, Conn.) finished third in 26:58.2.

Senior Brandon Legendre (Waterford, Vt.) also collected a top-5 finish with a time of 27:12.6 to place fifth.  

Junior Kody Frye (Keene, N.H.) and freshman Benjamin Jones (Enfield, N.H.) finished seventh and eighth, respectively, in times of 27:24.8 and 27:27.3.

The Chargers also received strong races from senior Travis Yandow (Franklin, Vt.) - 13th, 28:17.5, sophomore Bruin Smith (Cohoes, N.Y.) – 14th, 28:19.3 and freshman Liam Fleming (Orford, N.H.) – 15th, 28:32.1.

Justin Enright – 20th, 29:07.3
Matt Royer – 33rd, 30:30.3
Stephen Bennett – 45th, 31:05.7
Matthew Nosal – 59th, 32:57.7
Alec Holland – 81st, 36:05.0
Kyle Diezel – 92nd, 37:26.4

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