Sevilla-Connelly, Wilkes Collect All-Conference Honors at America East Title Meet

Saturday, November 2

Albany, N.Y.

University of New Hampshire

America East Championships

Sevilla-Connelly, Wilkes Collect All-Conference Honors at America East Title Meet

11/2/2019 7:06:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

Results America East Release

ALBANY, N.Y. – The University of New Hampshire men's cross country team took on the conference's best runners at the 2019 America East Cross Country Championship Meet; a top-10 finish by senior Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Chester, N.H.) paced the Wildcats to a fourth place conference finish, the programs 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.

TEAM SCORES:

Stony Brook - 22
UMass Lowell - 54
Vermont - 75
New Hampshire - 95
Binghamton – 137
Maine - 191
UAlbany - 201
UMBC - 213
Hartford – 272

BEATING OUT HISTORY
The Wildcats also finished fourth in the team standings in 2016; the 2019 team beat the 2016's team score by five points, finishing with a team score of 95 to 2016's score of 100.

UP NEXT:
The Wildcats, after a weekend off, head to the NCAA Regional Championships hosted by Buffalo on Friday, November 15.

MEET RESULTS:
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.