NESCAC Championships
Hosted by Bowdoin College
at Brunswick, Maine

Team Results
1. Middlebury    48
2. Williams      59
3. Amherst       98
4. Hamilton     133
5. Trinity      142
6. Bowdoin      154
7. Conn         173
8. Wesleyan     177
9. Tufts        217
10. Bates       249
11. Colby       256

Top 14 All-NESCAC team
1 Maggie Hanson Hamilton 17:25
2 Julia Bensen Williams 17:42 
3 Jenn Campbell Williams 17:46
4 Maura Danahy Conn 17:48
5 Michela Adrian Middlebury 17:50
6 Jess Manzer Middlebury 18:04
7 Jen Cammarano Hamilton 18:06
8 Molly Yazwinski Middlebury 18:14
9 Courtney Quirin Wesleyan 18:22
10 Carter Hamill Amherst 18:30
11 Audra Caler Bowdoin 18:35
12 Sarah Logan Middlebury 18:36
13 Martha Nelson Amherst 18:42
14 Katie Sharff Williams 18:42

Bates Finishers
26 Julie Dutton Bates 19:09
33 Kelley Puglisi Bates 19:18
57 Beth Pagnotta 19:47
75 Catherine Creswell 20:06
85 Jesse Gagne-Hall 20:11
89 Rebecca Hakala 20:19
92 Lauren Shoff 20:26
97 Gwen Hiltunen 20:35
109 Rachel Starr 20:50
119 Erica Nason 21:25
122 Katherine Long 21:45

WOMEN'S X-COUNTRY TAKES 10TH AT NESCACS

BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Facing the toughest conference competition in the nation, with five of the top 20 teams in the nation at the meet, the Bates College women's cross country team took 10th place at the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin. The Bobcats defeated a Colby squad that had topped them on the same course just three weeks earlier at the State Meet.

All Bates runners at least matched their times from the State Meet, with six of the seven scorers improving, some by nearly a full minute. Sophomore Julie Dutton (Londonderry, N.H.) led the Bobcat,s finishing in 26th place with a time of 19:09, 19 seconds better than her time at the State meet. Junior Kelly Puglisi (Scotia, N.Y.) ran second once again, taking 33rd place with a time of 19:18, improving by 37 seconds. Beth Pagnotta (Hoosket, N.H.) took fourth for the Bobcats in 19:47, while rookie Catherine Creswell (Portland, Ore.), who placed 75th with a time of 20:06, showed Bates' biggest improvement, running 55 seconds better than a week before. Sophomore Jessica Gagne-Hall (Manchester, N.H.) and senior captain Rebecca Hakala (Sanford, Maine) rounded out the Bobcats' top seven. Bates' spread of 1:00 from first to fifth was its best of the season, while 1:20 from first to eighth was a significant step up headed into the ECAC and New England championships.