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BOSTON – With four runners placing in the top-six overall, including another race victory by junior
Katherine Ferrara, the Merrimack College women's cross country team won for the second time in three tries this young season with a victory at the Codfish Bowl on Saturday.
The Basics
Results: 1
st/11
Top Finisher: Katherine Ferrara (1
st – 19:09)
Location: Franklin Park / Boston, Mass.
What They Said:
Head coach
Chris Cameron: "Another good win for the girls today. We still have a lot of hard training ahead of us as we keep pushing toward hopefully continuing what has been a positive trend in the early portions of the season as we try to build something special."
How It Happened:
- As Ferrara has gone, so have the Warriors; the third-year runner won for the second time in three tries – just as the team has – with a final time of 19:09 on Saturday.
- Senior Tia Foglietta and sophomore Julia Dempsey were second and third on the leader board with times of 19:17 and 19:32, respectively, to round out an all-Warrior podium.
- Sophomore Kate Fisher was next to finish in sixth place, crossing the finish line in 19:37, while senior Sophie Gorton earned an 11th-place finish with a time of 19:54.
- Freshman Sarah Tierney and senior Jackie Coscia earned top-20 spots in the standings after they finished consecutively with times of 20:30 and 20:38. Senior Morgan DeBolt rounded out the top-seven for the Warriors with a time of 20:48, good for 23rd overall.
- Merrimack blew away the 11-team field with a score of 23 points, 72 points better than second-place Worcester State, to take home its second tittle of the young season.
Up Next
The Warriors will be back in action in two weeks when they compete in the New England Championships right back at Franklin Park on Saturday, Oct. 6.
