NCAA Regionals: Women's results

NCAA Northeast Regional
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Audubon Golf Course, Amherst, NY (University at Buffalo host)

Women’s results
Team standings:

1-Syracuse 116, 2. Boston College 127, 3. Cornell 137, 4. Columbia 151, 5. Providence 163, 6. Yale 144, 7. UConn 168, 8. Iona 179, 9. Stony Brook 195, 10. Dartmouth 238, 11. Brown 241, 12. New Hampshire 274, 13. Vermont 345, 14. Harvard 353, 15. Boston University 429, 16. Army 518, 17. Colgate 525, 18. Albany 577, 19. Holy Cross 608, 20. Quinnipiac 631, 21. UMass 639, 22. Binghamton 642, 23. Marist 653, 24. Sacred Heart 679, 25. Buffalo 753, 26. Central Connecticut 738, 27. Fairfield and Rhode Island 774, 29. St. John’s 813, 30. Fordham 825, 31. Canisius 879, 32. Hofstra 967, 33. Niagara 983, 34. Manhattan 1003, 35. Siena 1070, 36. St. Bonaventure 1104. Hartford and Northeastern, INC

Marist finishers, 6,000-meter course

71. Michelle Gaye 22:23.0 (6:01 pace)
91. Katie Messina 22:45.1 (6:07 pace)
151. Briana Crowe 23:46.6 (6:23 pace)
169. Erin Thompson 24:05.2 (6:28 pace)
174. Rebecca Denise 24:11.0 (6:30 pace)
175. Brianna Freestone 24:13.1 (6:30 pace)
177. Erin O’Reilly 24:15.4 (6:31 pace)

We entered today’s meet at a significant disadvantage without our lead runner from MAACs, Addie DiFrancesco. Addie entered the MAAC meet with an upper leg injury. She was able to get through it and she was able to run her best race for us en route to a second-place finish at the conference meet.

Unfortunately, Addie’s injury got worse instead of better, and she had to shut it down and not travel to Buffalo with us for the regional meet. This was a tough hurdle to overcome.

The wind was just as brutal for the women’s race. That swirling wind caused breathing issues for one of our stellar freshmen, Erin Thompson, and that was a big factor in her tough effort. I give Erin a lot of credit; when we saw her a little before the mile mark, she was in agony and it was uncertain in my mind whether she would finish. But she gutted it out for the team, and made us all proud.

Everyone else ran reasonably well for us. Michelle Gaye was our leader once again, and she ran great out there. Katie Messina continued her phenomenal junior season with another strong race. The rest of our ladies did the best they could – Briana Crowe ran another solid regional race, and Becca Denise, Brianna Freestone and Erin O’Reilly worked well together in a pack.

Again, we were hoping to do better as a team. But there were a lot of positives to take out of today, and there is much to look forward to in the coming days, weeks and months with our program.