St. Paul's capped an undefeated season with a five-point victory over second-place Exeter at Choate on Saturday to capture the New England Division I Cross Country Championship.

The Big Red finished the 11-team race with 42 points, edging Exeter (47) and also defeating Andover (64), Deerfield (121), Loomis (136), Choate (138), NMH (235), Hotchkiss (252), Taft (254), Trinity-Paeling (260), and Avon Old Farms (295).

As a team, St. Paul's placed three runners in the top 10 and its top five runners in the top 12. Lowell Reeve '09, who won the ISL individual title a week ago, was again at the top for SPS, placing second overall in a time of 16:18.4. Reeve finished only behind race winner Eyob Eyualem of Exeter (16:03.6). Will Ferraro '09 placed seventh (16:50.8). Nick Gates '09 (17:05.6, 10th), Jay Gurney '08 (17:09.5, 11th), Nate Sans '10 (17:13.7, 12th), Tim Coogan '09 (17:35.5, 21st), and Mikko Salovaara '10 (17:37.3, 25th) followed.

Team results appear below. Complete individual results can be found at http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/ct/Nov10_NEPSTA_set3.shtml.

TEAM RESULTS:

1. St. Paul's

2 7 10 11 12 (21) (25) = 42

Lowell Reeve, Will Ferraro, Nick Gates, George Gurney (C), Nate Sans,

Tim Coogan, Mikko Salovaara

2. Exeter

1 6 9 15 16 (18) (24) = 47

Eyob Eyualem, Ian Winthrop (C), Thomas Leger, Jun Youb Lee (C), Miles

Richardson, Brian Basham, Graham Keggi (C)

3. Andover

3 8 14 17 22 (23) (35) = 64

Charles Ganner, Eli Howe, Mike Discenza, Nate Thomas, Phil Hofer, Tim

McLaughlin, Declan Cummings

4. Deerfield

4 13 28 36 40 (41) (64) = 121

Anthony Schurz, Sam Belcher, Paul Whittredge, Nate Gordon (C), Matt

Bolger, James Zilenziger, Duncan Davis

5. Loomis Chaffee

5 20 29 31 51 (52) (62) = 136

Faraz Sohail (C), Jake Robbins, Todd Mendlinger, Andre Arguimbau,

Robert Shapiro, Stuart Deland, Ben Gorman (C)

6. Choate

19 26 27 32 34 (38) (43) = 138

Christopher Krokus (C), Sm Craft, Mike Selberg, Sam Cabot, Ryan Kim,

Robbie Cholnoky, Christophe Lirola

7. NMH

33 37 50 57 58 (60) (65) = 235

Tim Liponis, Jim Montague, Kevin Bravo, Ryan Fluence, Henry Cesari,

Craig Turner, Marty Tarantino

8. Hotchkiss

44 47 48 54 59 (73) (74) = 252

Richard Kirby, James Lightbourn (C), Cameron Ewing, Nat Jaffee, Charls

Hurlock, Will Lindberg, Gabe Chaleff

9. Taft

39 42 49 56 68 = 254

Shane Sanderson (C), Jimmy Kurkal, Schuyler Metcalf, Thomas Rogets,

Alex Breg

10. Trinity-Pawling

30 45 55 63 67 (70) (75) = 260

Ryan Ingram, Guillermo Boisson, Patrick Houst, Will Cox, Mike Grace,

Tyler Nelson, Phil Parker

11. Avon Old Farms

46 53 61 66 69 (71) (72) = 295

Nick Palen, Ben LaRocque, Reggie Mills, Conor Price, Max Rusch,

Anthony Cusano, Ki Ho Suh (C)


Article from the St. Paul's School website. Photo by Geoff Forester.