Sept. 29, 2001

Final Stats

NEW YORK--- The Marist College men's cross country team placed 14th out of 26 teams at the highly competitive Iona College Meet of Champions, held Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The Red Foxes improved upon last year's 16th place showing and also improved with 46 points on their 2000 total with a final team score of 390. Dartmouth College, which finished 25th at the 2000 NCAA Championships, won the meet with 81 points.

As was their custom during the 2000 season, the Red Foxes used a tight pack of five runners to success. The spread from first man to fifth man was 49 seconds. Leading the way for Marist was senior co-captain Mike Nehr (West Babylon, NY), who finished the 5-mile course in 26:07.5. Sophomore Kirk Dornton (Syracuse, NY), was the next Marist finisher in a Van Cortlandt Park personal-record time of 26:10.0. Rounding out the top five were senior co-captain Pat Driscoll (Congers, NY) in 26:35.6, sophomore Jason Grady (Clinton Corners, NY) in 26:56.4 and junior Jamal Padgett (Syracuse, NY) in 26:56.4.

Freshmen runners took the next three spots for Marist. Geoff Decker (Delmar, NY) finished in 27:18.5 and was followed by Lou Albano (Pompton Plains, NY) in 27:24.3 and Matt Petersen (Staten Island, NY) in 27:38.3.

The Red Foxes return to action on Oct. 6 at Lehigh University's Paul Short Invitational.