Sevilla-Connelly Top Wildcat at Coast to Coast Invitational

Friday, September 20

Jamaica Plain, Mass.

University of New Hampshire

Coast to Coast Invitational

Results

Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Photo by Michelle Bronner)

Photo by: Michelle Bronner

9/20/2019 6:34:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

Results

Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly posts new personal best in the 8K.

JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. – University of New Hampshire senior Nicolas Sevilla-Connelly (Chester, N.H.) was the top Wildcat finisher in the 2019 Coast to Coast Battle in Beantown which took place Friday afternoon at Franklin Park. The Wildcats finished 15^th in the team score with 367 points, in a competitive field of top college cross country programs.

Sevilla-Connelly finished 40^th overall, finishing the 8K course with a time of 25:10.2, a new personal best by 33 seconds. In both races he's participated in this season, Sevilla-Connelly has been UNH's top finisher.

Following close behind in 54^th was freshman Forest MacKenzie (Deerfield, N.H.) beating his previous 8K time from the Maine dual meet by 23 seconds, posting a time of 25:20.5.

The race was won overall by Harvard's Kieran Tuntivate. Syracuse took first in the team score with 64 points.

FINAL TEAM SCORES:

Syracuse – 64
Army West Point – 91
Stony Brook – 129
Harvard - 151
Washington - 156
Navy - 160
Dartmouth - 177
Penn - 207
Georgia Tech – 269
Arkansas - 311
UMass Lowell - 315
Providence - 320
Brown – 324
Buffalo – 350
New Hampshire – 367
Northeastern – 371
Vermont – 401
Boston University – 423
UMass – 524
Boston College – 568
UAlbany - 642

MEET RESULTS:

Junior James Wilkes (Concord, N.H.) finished 72^nd overall with a time of 25:36.7, another new personal best.
Junior Samuel Lanternier (Derry, N.H.) took 100^th with a time of 26:03.1, which was also a new personal best.
Junior Aidan Sullivan (Nashua, N.H.) finished with a time of 26:13.0, finishing 109^th.
The next Wildcat to finish was senior Nicholas Brown (Conway, N.H.) in 118^th with a time of 26:18.7.
Rounding out UNH's scoring runners was senior Alex Saveliev (Concord, N.H.) in 138^th with a time of 26:48.7.
In the open 5K, freshman Kenny McElroy (West Linn, Ore.) was the top finisher with a time of 16:23.3, finishing 26^th.

UP NEXT:
After a weekend off, the Wildcats head to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the Paul Short Invitational hosted by Lehigh on Saturday, October 5.

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