Anderson And Scarella Close Cross Country Careers At Trinity

Hartford, Conn., Jan. 3 -  The Trinity College men's cross country team, coached by George Suitor (16th Season), closed the 2007 season with a 29th-place finish in the NCAA Division III National Championship Meet at St. Olaf College in Minnesota on Nov. 17.  Junior Sam Moorhead (Dedham, Mass.) tied for 39th place with a time of 25:18 and Bantam senior captain Matt Anderson (Manchester, Conn.) tied for 91st place at 25:47.  Trinity finished with 582 points in the meet.  It was the team's second straight appearance in the NCAA Division III National Championships.  In 2006, Trinity finished 31st as a team in the event.  In addition, the Trinity men finished as the No. 4-ranked team in New England. The final New England Division III Poll: 1. Amherst, 2. Williams, 3. Tufts, 4. Trinity (Conn.), 5. Bowdoin, 6. MIT, 7. Southern Maine, 8. Keene State, 9. Brandeis, 10. Bates.  The Trinity women, also coached by Suitor, finished 10th in the NESCAC Championships and 16th in the NCAA Division III Regional Championships this fall.

Anderson, men's senior Tim Scarella (Valhalla, N.Y.), women's senior tri-captains Caroline Brown (Belmont, Mass.), Kristina Miner (Suffield, Conn.), and Amanda Williams (San Jose, Calif.), and women's senior Meghan Apfelbaum (Menands, N.Y.) closed their collegiate cross country careers. Anderson posted the Trinity men's third-best, top time of the fall at 25:27 (career-best), achieving the performance first in an eighth-place finish at Mass.-Dartmouth and again in a 27th-place, All-New England finish in the NCAA Division III New England Championship Meet.  Anderson, the Trinity men's team's representative on the NESCAC All-sportsmanship Team, also won the Westfield State Invitational with a time of 26:36 (6k).  Williams posted the Bantam women's best time of the fall in the 5,000 meters at 18:30 (career-best) in an 11th place finish in the Saratoga Invitational and ran a season-best time of 23:27 in the NCAA Regionals. Miner posted the Trinity women's top 6,000-meter time of the fall at 23:12 in the Paul Short Run, earning NESCAC Performer of the Week for her seventh-place finish, and ran a season-best, 5,000-meter time of 18:48 in an 18th-place finish at Rensselaer.  Brown posted a season-best time of 21:19 in the 5,000 meters at Rensselaer and a career-best time on the 6,000-meter course of 25:38 in the NCAA Regionals, while also gracing the NESCAC All-Sportsmanship Team.  Miner's career-best times were 17:58 over 5,000 meters and 22:25 over 6,000 meters, while Brown had a career-best time on the 5,000-meter course of 20:40.  Scarella finishes his career with a top time of 28:13 over 8,000 meters and Apfelbaum closes her career with respective top times of 19:25 (5k) and 24:32 (6k).

Junior Hunter Norte (Ellington, Conn.) boasted the men's team's best time of 24:40 (career-best) in a 15th-place finish in the Division I race at the Paul Short Run, while Moorhead had a career-best performance of 24:53 in a third-place finish at Mass.-Dartmouth. Norte was the top runner in New England in 2006 and earned NESCAC Performer of the Week twice early in the season before an injury hurt his times down the stretch.  Moorhead and Norte both joined Anderson on the All-New England team this fall and Moorhead was also an All-NESCAC First Team honoree.  Freshman Wesley Halstead (Woodbridge, Conn.) ran a career-best time of 25:28, sophomore Matt Dennis (Springfield, Mass.) recorded a career-best 26:12, freshman Brendan Powers (Middleton, Mass.) had a career-best time of 26:13, freshman Steve Garner (Yarmouthport, Mass.) posted a career-best time of 26:40, and freshman Blake Fisher (Naperville, Ill.) added a career-best time of 26:49. In the 5,000-meter races, women's sophomore Jaclyn Hourihan (Walpole, Mass.) registered a career-best time of 18:46, while junior Alison Lemire (East Hartford, Conn.) had a career-best time of 19:03, sophomore Giselle Harrington (Warner, N.H.) recorded a career-best 19:24, and classmate Kate Barton (Englewood, Colo.) had a career-best time of 19:36. In the 6,000 meters, Hourihan boasted a career-best time of 23:32, while Barton recorded a career-best of 23:33, Lemire ran a career-best time of 23:48, and Harrington had a career-best time of 24:02.