UMBC

Izudin Mehmedovic led the UMBC men's cross country team across the line at the America East Championships Saturday.

Binghamton, N.Y. - The UMBC men’s cross country team placed all five scorers in the top-16 as the Retrievers claimed the America East title at the conference championships held at Binghamton on Saturday afternoon.  The UMBC women’s team took home eighth place in the meet.  Coaching Staff of the Year honors were awarded to the Stony Brook women and the UMBC men. The Seawolves, led by Andy Ronan, and the Retrievers, guided by Murray Davis, are both are first-time recipients of the honor, which is voted on by the league's coaches.

Despite being picked to finish fifth in the preseason coaches' poll, the UMBC men's cross country team took home its first men's title. The Retrievers scored 52 points to out-pace preseason favorite New Hampshire (62) and Maine (71), which was led by individual champion Kirby Davis (25:38).

Boston University scored 91 points to finish fourth, followed by Albany (103), Vermont (165), Stony Brook (180), Binghamton (194) and Hartford (280).

Izudin Mehmedovic led the Retrievers across the line in the 8,000m run with a time of 26:03.3 for fourth place overall.  J.J. Wetzel took eighth place in 26:12.3 followed by Shawn Shokry in 11^th place in 26:31.5.  Rounding out the Retriever scoring was Anthony Kelhower in 26:37.2 for 13^th place and Blake Davis in 16^th place in 26:43.0.

Stefanie Thomas scored the Retriever women’s team’s top finish with a 20^th place finish in the 5,000m run, recording a time of 19:41.9.  Kathleen Galan took 26^th in 19:58.5 followed by Tawny Barin in 42 in 21:00.2, Allison Mathis in 51^st in 21:31.8 and Morgan Little in 53^rd in 21:42.0. 

Boston U. finished with 40 points, winning the women’s race and outdistancing Stony Brook (56), New Hampshire (89) and host Binghamton (103). Vermont finished fifth (137), followed by Albany (142), Maine (153), UMBC (192) and Hartford (264).

The women's all-conference team, which is made up of the top-10 finishers in the championship event, consists of Binghamton's Katie Radzik (third) and Stacy Kramer (seventh), Boston University's Ryan (second), Abbey Sadowski (fourth) and Christine Laakso (eighth), Maine's Heather Jovanelli (10th), New Hampshire's Catherine Parker (fifth) and Stony Brook's Joy (first), Dana Hastie (sixth) and Sarah Herbert (ninth).

The men's all-conference squad features Albany's Ricardo Estremara (second) and Robbie Freeman (seventh), Boston University's Patrick Hoye (ninth), Maine's Davis (first) and Joshua Trevino (sixth), UMBC's Izudin Mehmedovic (fourth) and J.J. Wetzel (eighth), New Hampshire's Matthew Russell (fifth) and Robert Edgerton (10th) and Stony Brook's Shaun Krawitz (third).