Wildcats Compete at Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

Friday, September 24

Boston, Mass.

12:30 PM

University of New Hampshire

Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

William Curran

Photo by: Andrew Yourell

9/24/2021 4:11:00 PM | Men's Cross Country

Aidan Shea led the Wildcats.

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BOSTON – Freshman Aidan Shea (Amherst, Mass.) led the Wildcats as the University of New Hampshire men's cross country team competed at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on the 8K course at Franklin Park on Friday versus national competition.

"This is a long term project, this team has gone through a lot of transition, said UNH head coach Robert Hoppler. "We ran very well in the first two meets, this meet got away from us, the athletes were a little over there heads and a little intimidated. They are excited to work hard going forward to see how much we can improve as the season goes on. It was a tough meet for sure, we are looking to regroup and move on for our next meet in two weeks."

The meet featured some of the top competition in the country including No. 6 nationally-ranked Arkansas. The Razorbacks won the meet with 39 points as Arkansas' Gilbert Boit won the individual championship with a time of 24:08.

TEAM SCORES:

#6 Arkansas-39
Syracuse-60
Duke-80
Harvard-96
Providence-151
Army West Point-174
Yale-190
Dartmouth-246
Columbia-253
Northeastern-288
Buffalo-349
Boston University-378
UMass-387
Maine-419
Brown-424
UMass Lowell-495
Boston College-498
Rhode Island-528
UAlbany-554
New Hampshire-563

HOW IT HAPPENED:

Shea posted a 112th place finish with a time of 26:37.
Junior William Curran (Old Saybrook, Conn.) was the second runner for the Wildcats to finish as he was 117th with a time of 26:46.
Senior Matthew Walker (Westerly, R.I.), junior Aidan O'Hern (Concord, N.H.) and freshman Brayden Kearns (Deerfield, N.H.) rounded out the point scorers for the Wildcats as Walker posted a time of 27:02, O'Hern ran a 27:05 and Kearns tallied a 28:16.