THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Hanover, N.H. (Dartmouth College)
 
- The Lead: Led by a victory from senior Andrew Mah (Newton, Mass.), the No. 2 ranked MIT men's cross country team finished second overall on Saturday at the Maribel Sanchez Souther Invitational on Saturday morning.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- Mah earned the win by nearly a seven-second margin as he crossed in first at 25:06.99 for a pace of 5:03.2 per mile over the eight-kilometer course. Senior Lowell Hensgen (Raleigh, N.C.) was No. 2 for MIT in fifth place at 25:30.02, followed in 10th by senior Vedang Lad (Plainsboro, N.J.) in a time of 25:44.83.
 
- Senior Sam Acquaviva (Newburyport, Mass.) crossed in 15th place in 26:00.88, with first-year Tim Neumann (Downers Grove, Ill.) following immediately in 16th place to close out the scoring runners at 26:03.70 in his first career race.
 
- Junior Jacob Hansen (Bountiful, Utah) finished in 20th place with a time of 26:17.17, along with a 22nd-place finish from graduate student Ryan Wilson (Redwood City, Calif.) at 26:37.39 to round out the top seven.  
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT returns to action on Friday, September 23rd as the Engineers head to nearby Franklin Park for the Coast-to-Coast Battle of Beantown.
 
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