NESCAC Championships
hosted by Bowdoin College
at Brunswick, Maine

BOBCATS TAKE FIFTH AT NESCAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Easter earns first All-Conference nod

BRUNSWICK, Maine — The Bates men's cross country team improved one spot from a year ago, taking fifth at New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) championships. The Bobcats finished where their New England ranking places them in the conference and includes a win over Colby, a team that had topped the Bobcats three weeks earlier on the same course at the State of Maine championships.

Junior Justin Easter (Jay, Maine) was the Bobcats' top finishe for the fourth time this season. Easter placed fourth overall with a time of 25:14 to earn his first career All-NESCAC honor. Junior Malcolm Gray (Bronxville, N.Y.) had his best race since finishing fourth in the Bobcats' first race of the season. Gray placed 28th with a time of 26:17. First-year runner Michael Downing (Gorham, Maine) was next for the Bobcats in 32nd place in 26:25, while classmates Andrius Staisiunas (Panevezys, Lithuania) and Robert Gomez (Waldoboro, Maine) were 40th and 48th overall.

TEAM SCORES
1. Bowdoin      46
2. Tufts        71
3. Trinity      75
4. Williams     77
5. Bates      146
6. Amherst      175
7. Colby        186
8. Conn         211
9. Wesleyan     226
10. Hamilton    281
11. Middlebury  310

INDIVIDUAL TOP 14 (All-NESCAC)
Pl.	Name  School  Time
1 Ryan Bak Trinity 24:54
2 Stephen Allison Bowdoin 25:03
3 Jim Emord Trinity 25:11
4 Justin Easter Bates 25:14
5 Todd Forsgren Bowdoin 25:20
6 Aristides Cruz Tufts 25:30
7 Neal Hannan Williams 25:39 
8 Benjamin Smith Tufts 25:41
9 Patrick Vardaro Bowdoin 25:41
10 Karl Remsen Williams 25:46
11 Nathan Brigham Tufts 25:50
12 Nat Brown Colby 25:52
13 Scott Herick Bowdoin 25:54
14 David Clayman Conn 25:54

OTHER BATES RUNNERS
28 Malcolm Gray Bates 26:17
32 Michael Downing Bates 26:25
40 Andrius Staisiunas Bates 26:36
48 Robert Gomez Bates 26:47
50 Joel Anderson Bates 26:48
60 John Plimpton Bates 27:04
62 Ari de Wilde Bates 27:10
76 Andrew Philpott Bates 27:35
86 Trent Lierman Bates 28:08
100 Russ Latham Bates 28:36
113 Patrick Dinan Bates 29:21