No. 10 Men’s Cross Country Wins 28th-Straight NEWMAC Championship

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – The No. 10 MIT men's cross country placed five runners between third and seventh to win the program's 28th straight NEWMAC Men's Cross Country Championship on Saturday. This year's 8k NEWMAC title race was hosted by Smith College.

The Engineers finished the nine-team meet with 25 points. WPI was second with 59 points, followed by Babson in third (66), Coast Guard in fourth (101) and fifth place Springfield (168). Wheaton was sixth (190), while Clark took seventh (193 points), Emerson was eighth (240) and Salve Regina placed ninth (282).

THE BASICS:

Winning Team Score: 25 points, MIT
Top Finisher: Everett Mosher, WPI (24:46)
Top MIT Finisher: Renne Cooper, 3rd Place (24:52)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

WPI sophomore Everett Mosher won the 8K individual title in 24:45.1. He led at the 6K mark and finished 4.1 seconds ahead of Babson junior Nick Yacoub (24:49.2).
Renne Cooper (24:51.6), Nate Martinez (24:52.4), Luke Rupert (25:05.6), Owen Sondag (25:09.9) and Yichen Sun (25:10.2) placed third through seventh, giving MIT a 19-second spread from it first to fifth runner.
Alex Bland (25:13.5) and Michael Eischen (25:14.7) finished 10th and 11th as MIT's sixth and seventh runners, and MIT placed nine runners in the top 13. Landon Hering and Tage Mehta did not score but finished inside the top 14 to earn All-Conference honors.

NEWMAC ALL-CONFERENCE (Top 14 finishers):

3. Renne Cooper (24:52)
4. Nate Martinez (24:53)
5. Luke Rupert (25:06)
6. Owen Sondag (25:10)
7. Yichen Sun (25:11)
10. Alex Bland (25:14)
11. Michael Eischen (25:15)
12. Landon Hering (25:16)
13. Tage Mehta (25:27)

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

MIT has won all 28 NEWMAC Championship races since 1998.
The Engineers had 12 of the top 25 runners in the field.
Sun is now a four-time NEWMAC All-Conference finisher.
Cooper earned NEWMAC All-Conference honors for the third time.
Hering and Rupert each earned All-Conference honors for the second time in their careers.
Martinez, Sondag, Bland, Eischen, and Mehta earned All-Conference honors for the first time.

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