CANTON, N.Y. -- Led again by senior Sarah West, the Mount Holyoke cross country team placed 18th among 25 scoring teams at the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships on Saturday at St. Lawrence University.
The Lyons competed with just one runner from the squad that placed 14th at NCAA Regionals one year ago, yet still outraced seven teams in Hartford, Johnson & Wales, Rhode Island College, Roger Williams, Western New England, Clarkson and MCLA. With 558 points, the Lyons were nine ahead of Hartford and 54 points behind 17th-place New Paltz State. Williams took first place, with Middlebury, Connecticut College, Amherst and Vassar rounding out the top five.
West (Concord, N.H.) led the Lyons for the fourth consecutive race, placing 94th overall among 186 runners with a time of 25:09.1 on the 6-kilometer course.
Senior captain Katie Earle (East Kingston, N.H.), Mount Holyoke's only holdover from the 2024 Regionals, finished second on the Lyons and 106th overall in 25:33.8. Junior captain Anita Konopka (Rolling Meadows, Ill.) followed in 113th (25:44.3), with sophomore Sachi Robinson (Staten Island, N.Y.) in 122nd (26:10.7), and first-year Marin Lambert (Bothell, Wash.) rounding out the team scoring in 132nd (26:34.3).
The Lyons' scoring displacers were first-year Nina Kuzichev (Washington, D.C.) in 137th (26:46.4) and senior Tess Marini-Rapoport (Northampton, Mass.) in 145th (27:11.4).
That concludes the cross country season and the fall sports season for Mount Holyoke.
