UNH Faces Top Regional Talent in Buffalo

Friday, November 15

Buffalo, N.Y.

12:00 PM

University of New Hampshire

NCAA Regional Championships

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Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Photo by Michelle Bronner)

Photo by: Michelle Bronner

11/14/2019 1:27:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

Coming off a fourth-place conference finish, UNH runners looking to race hard in cold Buffalo, N.Y.

DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire men's cross country team heads to Buffalo, New York this weekend for the 2019 NCAA Northeast Regional cross country meet.

The Wildcats took a fourth place finish in the America East championship meet, their highest finish since 2016, and are looking continue making improvements as the championship season continues.

The top two team scores in the regional meet advance to the NCAA Championship Meet held in Terre Haute, Indiana on Saturday, November 23. The top four individual finishers not on either of those two teams will also qualify, as well as at-large bids following the conclusion of all other regional meets.

MEET INFO:
Date: Friday, November 15 – 12 PM
Distance: 10k
Location: University at Buffalo – Buffalo, N.Y.
Live Results

LAST TIME OUT:
Senior Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Chester, N.H.) paced the Wildcats to a fourth place conference finish, the program's best conference finish since 2016.

Sevilla-Connelly finished the 8-kilometer race with a personal best time of 24:06.2, taking fifth place overall, his best America East Championship cross country performance of his career, and his first all-conference selection as a member of the America East All-Conference First Team.

New Hampshire's scoring places were fifth, 12^th, 23^rd, 24^th, and 31^st, for a team score of 95. The meet was won overall by UMass Lowell's Christopher Alfond finishing in 23:38.26. Stony Brook took the team championship with a team score of 22, with four runners in the top 10.

Other scoring Wildcats included:

Junior James Wilkes (Concord, N.H.) took a 12^th overall finish with a time of 24:25.72, a new personal best time. His finish was good for All-Conference second team honors.
Freshman Forest MacKenzie (Deerfield, N.H.) was the next Wildcat across the finish line with a 25^th place finish, with a personal best time of 24:53.70.
Right behind him in 26^th was senior Alexander Saveliev (Concord, N.H.) with a new personal best time of 24:56.44.
Rounding out UNH's top five was junior Samuel Lanternier (Derry, N.H.) finishing in 34^th with a time of 25:10.47.