NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — The No. 12 ranked MIT men's cross country team finished second at the 8k Bates Invitational on Saturday morning at Pineland Farms.
With the other half the MIT squad in Terre Haute, Indiana for Friday's DIII Pre-National Meet (where MIT earned a fourth-place finish), the Engineers were paced by a top-ten performance from first year Tage Mehta (Westfield, N.J.), who posted his top collegiate time of 25:42.7.
THE BASICS:
- Top Five Team Scores: 1. Washington and Lee (34); 2. MIT (83); 3. Bates (91); 4. Bowdoin (95); 5. WPI (98)
- Top Finisher: WPI's Avi Bissoondial in 25:01.5
- Top MIT Finisher: Tage Mehta in 25:42.7 (10th)
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Washington and Lee placed all five scoring runners in the top 13 to outdistance the Engineers in the team standings.
- Mehta was followed by graduate student Nicholas Medearis (Palo Alto, Calif.) in 14th and first year Adarsh Iyer (San Jose, Calif.) in 15th. Medearis finished in 25:50.2 and Iyer posted a time of 25:55.1.
- First year Landon Hering (Minnetonka, Minn.) and senior Carlos Villa (Wadsworth, Ill.) closed out the MIT team score. The Engineers finished with five runners in the top-25 on the strength of Hering's 21st place finish in 26:09.0 and Villa's time of 26:11.8 in 23rd.
- Senior Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona (Toronto, Canada) was 32nd in 26:44.4 and sophomore Charlie Black (Portland, Ore.) was 44th, scoring 38th, in 26:52.5 to round out the MIT top seven.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- MIT had 16 runners in all in the field at the Bates Invitational (complete results).
- Mehta dropped his 8k time by 1:34 from his collegiate debut time at the Maribel Sanchez Souther Invite on Sept. 14.
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