Men's Cross Country Set for Challenging Meet at Boston College

Friday, September 21

Jamaica Plain, Mass.

3:45 p.m.

Bucknell University

Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

Photo by: Marc Hagemeier

Men's Cross Country Set for Challenging Meet at Boston College

9/19/2018 11:59:00 AM | Men's Cross Country

The Field Includes Six Nationally-Ranked Teams

Setting the Scene
What: Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown
When: Friday, Sept. 21 – 3:45 p.m.
Where: Franklin Park (Jamaica Plain, Mass.)
Live Results: MilleniumRunning.com
Teams: Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Bucknell, Campbell, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Northeastern, Pittsburgh, Providence, Quinnipiac, Stony Brook, Syracuse, UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, Vermont, Virginia, Wake Forest, Washington

About the Bison
• Bucknell is set to compete in its most challenging meet of the season when it runs at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on Friday. The 26-team field includes five that are nationally-ranked.
• The Bison will send 10 runners to compete – Conor McMenamin, Jacob Stupak, Chad Sussman, Brian Dengler, Evan Minor, Brendan O'Toole, Brendan McGill, Joseph Stark, Ben Littman, Ryan Miele.
• McMenamin, a sophomore, has led the Bison in each of the first two races this season. He finished seventh out of 130 at the Bison Open and sixth out of 85 at the Detroit Mercy Invitational.
• O'Toole was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week following Bucknell's most recent competition. He took eighth at Detroit Mercy.
• Bucknell will compete at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown for the second time. The Bison finished ninth out of 13 teams in 2013. Michael McGowan was the team's best runner at the meet, taking 38^th out of 140.

About the Meet
• The Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown will be held for the sixth year.
• The field includes nationally-ranked teams in No. 12 Syracuse, No. 12 Campbell, No. 17 Virginia, No. 26 Washington, No. 30 Mississippi, and No. 15 Johns Hopkins (DIII). Additionally, Stony Brook received votes in the latest national poll.
• Including Bucknell, three teams from the Mid-Atlantic Regional rankings will run at the meet. The others are Lehigh and Pitt.
• Boston University will join Bucknell and Lehigh to give the Patriot League three teams at the meet.

Quote from head coach Kevin Donner
"This is one of the most competitive regular season meets that we have attended in a while. There are a few nationally-ranked teams in both the men's and women's races and all the others are regionally ranked, plus one of the best Division III schools in the country in Hopkins. This meet will be a great challenge for us, and we are excited to see how we handle this type of pressure. It's also a race within a race as two of the better league schools are racing in Lehigh and Boston U."

Weekly Awards Won by the Bison
• Patriot League Runner of the Week – Conor McMenamin (9/4)
• Patriot League Rookie of the Week – Brendan O'Toole (9/11)

Up Next
• The Bison will compete at Lehigh's Paul Short Run on Saturday, Sept. 29.