Southern New Hampshire University sophomore Ashley Corcoran finished second, helping the Penmen women’s team finished second out of 14 teams at the Northeast-10 Cross Country Championship in Janesville, N.Y. this weekend.
Corcoran (East Longmeadow, Mass.) finished the 6k race with a time of 23:37.2, followed closely by freshman Lydia Mathson (Nashua, N.H.). Mathson finished 11th overall with a time of 24:56.2.
Saint Anselm finished third, tied with Assumption. Freshman Christine Toy (Standish, Maine) led the Hawks with a time of 24:34.8, good for a fifth-place individual finish.
Locally on the men’s side, SNHU and Saint Anselm finished fifth and ninth in the 8k respectively.
Junior Cedric Jocelyn (Nyack, N.Y.) finished 10th with a time of 27:42.8 for the Penmen, good for tenth. SNHU also got an 11th place individual finish from junior Micah Hewitson (New Market, Md.) with a time of 27:43.3.
Saint Anselm’s best finish came from junior Jordan Cook (Biddeford, Maine), who finished with a time of 29:12.0, good for 45th place.
This weekend also held the NHIAA State Cross Country Championships at Derryfield Park, with several hundred participants from across the state running a 5k race.
In Division I, Manchester’s top finish on the boys’ side came from Manchester Memorial’s Evan Clark (18th/16:50.6), and Manchester Central’s Katelyn Pepin (26th/20:32.4) topped the girls’ side among Manchester participants.
In Division II, Manchester West’s Tan Lucas was Manchester’s top male finisher (121st place/20:43.4), with West not entering any female participants this year.
Trinity’s James Barrett (5th/17:18.9) had the best Manchester male performance in Division III, with Derryfield’s Emma Pyles (41st/23:11.4) leading the way on the female side among Manchester schools.