InBRONX, N.Y. - The Marist men's cross country team earned a second-place finish at Friday's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships, which were held at Van Cortlandt Park. It was the seventh straight year and ninth time overall the Red Foxes took second in the event.
Iona, which entered the meet ranked 10th nationally, won its 21st straight conference championship.
The Red Foxes had three runners earn All-MAAC honorees by virtue of a top-15 finish. Senior William Griffin (Columbia, Conn.) finished sixth in 25:03.4, the second-fastest time ever posted by a Marist runner at Van Cortlandt Park. Senior Matthew Flint (Queensbury, N.Y.) was seventh in 25:04.0, the third-fastest time by a Red Fox ever at Van Cortlandt Park. Coming in eighth was junior Arquimedes DelaCruz (Wantagh, N.Y.) in 25:32.0. Griffin became just the second Red Fox runner in program history to be named All-MAAC four times, joining Girma Segni. Flint and DelaCruz were each named All-MAAC for the third time.
Marist has placed second at the MAAC Championships in 1998, 2003 and every year from 2005 through 2011.
Team results: 1-Iona 15, 2-Marist 66, 3-Rider 75, 4-Fairfield 95, 5-Canisius 161, 6-Manhattan 181, 7-Siena 215, 8-Loyola 219, 9-Niagara 249, 10-Saint Peter's 307.
Individual results: 6-Griffin 25:03.4, 7-Flint 25:04.0, 8-DelaCruz 25:32.0, 23-Thomas Lipari 26:19.1, 24-Ken Walshak 26:25.4, 25-Brian Townsend 26:27.5, 30-Mark Valentino 26:41.2, 32-Justin Tampellini 26:46.1, 34-Mike Nicoletti 26:48.1, 39-Nick Hughes 26:56.4, 44-Mohamed Eid 27:00.9, 53-Nick Salek 27:10.6, 56-Rob Gorski 27:13.1, 58-Ian Dorset 27:14.9, 62-Joel Moss 27:19.1, 63-Billy Hild 27:19.6, 65-Ryan Fitzsimons 27:25.6, 66-Thomas Lappas 27:26.1, 79-Ryan Scrudato 27:42.9, 83-Matt Panebianco 27:45.6, 88-Kyle Havard 27:58.9, 91-Will Schanz 28:09.1, 93-Ryan Brown 28:12.6, 96-Ben Windisch 28:20.7, 97-Brian Gordon 28:26.1, 99-Andrew James 28:33.4, 106-Brendan Green 28:57.0, 108-Michael Keegan 29:04.1, 109-Bryan Buttigieg 29:05.3, 111-Luke Shane 29:18.5, 112-Adam Osowski 29:24.3, 116-Doug Ainscow 29:42.8, 124-Dominick Corradi 31:19.2.
