men's cross country

Oct. 25: St. Lawrence University sophomore Dan Ramsey and junior Terrence Fox landed in the top-10 at the 2008 Saratoga Invitational on Saturday out of 305 competitors on the 8k course. The duo's times helped the men's cross country team earn second place overall at the event out of 26 teams.

Ramsey was the Saints' top finisher, as his time of 25:29 placed him in fifth position overall. He was followed by Fox, who ran an outstanding race to finish in 10th place (25:52).

Senior Mark Burnham was only five seconds behind Fox in 15th place (25:57), while juniors Jacob Malcomb (17th, 26:00) and Geoff Millard (23rd, 26:11) surged to the finish line in impressive fashion. First year student Steve Kiplagat was the sixth St. Lawrence finisher in 26th position with a time of 26:17 and he was followed by junior Jeremy Beaudette (32nd, 26:25) and sophomore Chris Funch (43rd, 26:38).

Rounding out St. Lawrence's top-ten finishers at the event hosted on the Saratoga Spa State Park course were sophomore Brandon Kenny (54th, 26:54) and rookie Seth Jackson (60th, 27:01).

"Our team followed our pre-meet race strategy throughout the race, which helped us achieve two of our primary goals, including running fast times on the Saratoga course and tightening our top-five spread," said St. Lawrence University head coach John Newman. "We had a big day from Terrence (Fox) as our second finisher, along with Geoff (Millard) who came on strong late in the race to land in our top-five."

Oct. 18: Sophomore Dan Ramsey was third in a 272 runner field and the St. Lawrence men's cross country team finished fourth in the 30-team Interregional Rumble hosted by Oberlin College on Saturday.

Ramsey ran the 8-kilometer course in 24:52 finishing just seven seconds behind Dickinson?s Greg Leak and nine behind champion Jesse Schneider of NYU.

NYU won the team championship with 47 points with Dickinson second with 104, Ohio Northern third with 115, the Saints fourth with 133 and Allegheny fifth with 155 in the 30-team field.

Jacob Malcomb was the second Saints finisher and 27th overall in 25:35 as the next six Saint finishers ran within 26 seconds of each other. Steve Kiplagat was 31st overall in 25:37 with Mark Burnham 35th in 25:41 and Terrance Fox 37th in 25:45 to complete the Saint scoring. Geoff Millard was the sixth Saint finisher in 47th in 25:51 and Jeremy Beaudette rounded out the Saint top seven with a 25:58 clocking and 57th place.

Brandon Kenny ran 26:06 and was 65th overall in the big field while Chris Funch ran 26:26 and was 94th and Seth Jackson ran 26:32 to finish 104th.

The Saints will return to action at the Saratoga Invitational Oct. 25

Oct. 4: Sophomore Dan Ramsey crossed the finish line first in a field of 103 runners on Saturday afternoon as he led the St. Lawrence University men's cross country team to their 14th consecutive Liberty League Championship title in the 2008 conference championships, held on the Ronald C. Hoffmann Cross Country Course in Canton, NY.

The Saints, who are currently ranked 29th in the country, have never lost a Liberty League championship dating back to 1994 and won the 2008 title with 22 points, and their 14th title extends the league's record of most team wins. Rensselaer finished second with 56, while Vassar placed third with 70 points. Clarkson tallied 118 points for a fourth place finish, as Hobart (137) and Union (166) finished fifth and sixth.

Ramsey is the tenth individual champion for the Scarlet and Brown, the fourth in five years, increasing the current Liberty League record of most individual champions from any men's program in the conference. His time of 25:41 was 20 seconds ahead of second place finisher Anthony Lucero from Vassar, who clocked in at 26:01.

Junior Jacob Malcomb was the third place finisher overall with a time of 26:14, while classmates Geoff Millard (26:24) and Jeremy Beaudette (26:33), along with senior co-captain Mark Burnham (26:33), finished fifth, sixth, and seventh, respectively. Rounding out the top ten race finishers was St. Lawrence sophomore Chris Funch, who finished with a time of 26:38. St. Lawrence has now had 72 individuals finish in the top ten at the championships.

Sept. 27: Sophomores Dan Ramsey and Jeremy Mwenda each logged top-10 finishes on Saturday at the 17th Annual Ronald C. Hoffmann Invitational, leading St. Lawrence to a 3rd place finish overall in their home meet, which also served as this year's Atlantic Pre-Regional.

Ramsey finished in sixth place overall out of 250 competitors with a time of 25:35, while Mwenda was three spots back in ninth (25:51). Hamilton's Peter Kosgei won the men's 8k race by almost 19 seconds ahead of Cortland's Shamus Nally with a time of 25:02.

Junior co-captain Terrence Fox was the Saints' third finisher in 26:20, followed by fellow classmate Jacob Malcomb (23rd, 26:30) and senior Mark Burnham (29th, 26:37). First year student Steve Kiplagat (26:49) and sophomore Chris Funch (26:50) rounded out St. Lawrence's scoring with 36th and 37th place finishes, respectively.

The Saints' top seven finished with a total of 81 points, 17 behind the 2008 team champions, Geneseo State (64). Cortland finished three points behind the Blue Knights with 67 points.

Junior Jeremy Beaudette (49th, 27:07), first year Seth Jackson (50th, 27:07), sophomore Brandon Kenny (56th, 27:16) and junior Geoff Millard (62nd, 27:25) narrowly missed out on the team's top-seven, while rookies Mike Fox (66th, 27:32) and Matthew Spicer (68th, 27:35), senior Will Manning (75th, 27:40) and first year Andrew Sargrad (88th, 27:56) followed.

Sept. 9: A young corps of St. Lawrence University first year students showed what the future of the program may look like on Tuesday at the 2008 North Country Invitational hosted by Clarkson University. Six first year students finished in the top-11, including Andrew Sargrad whose time of 20:18 gave him his first collegiate victory.

Sargrad finished eight seconds ahead of fellow rookie Mike Fox's time of 20:26, which earned Fox second place overall. They were followed by first year student Timothy Spicer (5th, 20:55) and sophomore Ian Schofield (6th, 20:57).

Though the invitational is not a team-scoring event, the Scarlet and Brown continued to get impressive finishes out of their underclassmen. First year student Matthew Spicer finished in 8th place with a time of 21:10, narrowly beating out fellow rookies Sean Callahan (10th, 21:16) and Timothy Liponis (11th, 21:28).

Other St. Lawrence competitors in the 2008 North Country Invitational included junior Todd Lavigne (15th, 21:41), sophomores James Mayers (20th, 22:10) and William Trumper (22nd, 22:22) and first year students Alex Calderwood (16th, 21:48), Kevin Machia (19th, 22:09), Jon Ignatowski (21st, 22:15) and Brandon Spicer (41st, 24:09).

The Saints' men's cross country squad will not race again until Saturday, September 27 when they host the 2008 Hoffmann Invitational. The annual race is set to begin at 11:00am.

Aug. 30: St. Lawrence University first year student Steve Kiplagat posted a 2nd place finish in the "Battle of the North Country" hosted by Plattsburgh State on Saturday afternoon, leading the Scarlet and Brown to a narrow victory over the Cardinals.

St. Lawrence landed six runners in the top-10 to finish with 24 points, nine ahead of Plattsburgh State. Canton College was third with 85 total points.

Kiplagat finished 14 seconds behind Plattsburgh's Mike Heymann in his first collegiate race, posting a time of 15:48.4 for 2nd overall. Junior co-captain Terrence Fox was next in 3rd place (16:04.4) and sophomore Dan Ramsey was 4th (16:06.5).

Other top-10 finishers for St. Lawrence on Saturday included juniors Jacob Malcomb (7th, 16:12.1) and Jeremy Beaudette (8th, 16:12.7) and senior co-captain Mark Burnham (9th, 16:17.4). Meanwhile, first year student John Johnston rounded out the team's scoring with a 13th place finish (16:33.1) despite a fall on the course.
"I thought we ran pretty well today and got our feet wet against some good competition," said Saints' head coach John Newman.