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<p dir="ltr" align="left">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Thursday, Sept. 12</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left">Contact: Jennifer Friedman-(401) 865-1245</p>
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<p dir="ltr" align="center">Providence College Men’s Cross Country Travels To Stony Brook, N.Y.</p>
<p dir="ltr" align="center">The men will look to build a first-place finish at UNH.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">Providence, R.I.</b> - The Providence College men’s cross country teams will compete at the Stony Brook Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 14. The men will race against Columbia, Marist College, and Stony Brook.
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">The Friars will be competing against 18th-ranked Columbia, who finished second in the region and 17th in the nation last season. Along with being ranked 18th in the nation, Columbia enters Saturday with a third-place regional ranking
in the preseason poll. Stony Brook will enter Saturday with a 12th-place regional ranking after a 15th-place finish in last year’s Northeast Regional Championships. Providence will enter with a fifth place regional preseason ranking along with claiming 17
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">Making their debuts for the Friars are freshmen Billy Bragg (Middletown, N.J.), Jonathan Estrada (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Jake Feinstein (Sandy Hook, Conn.).</p>
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">Joining them are sophomores Christian Costello (Ridgewood, N.J.), Harvey Dixon (Aldershot<a></a>, England), Jake Meredith (Wellfleet, Mass.), Brendan Sullivan (Foxboro, Mass.), and Joseph Vercollone<a></a> (Pembroke, Mass.). Last
season, Costello competed in the Stony Brook invitational, finishing 11th in the 8k<a></a> race with a time of 26:04.19.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">Leading the underclassmen are juniors Benjamin Connor (Derby, England), Brian Doyle (Swansea, Mass.), Liam Hillery<a></a> (Smithfield, R.I.) and Shane Quinn (Waterford, Ireland) along with graduate student Julian Saad<a></a> (Trumball<a></a>,
Conn.). Quinn led the Friars to a second place finish (47 points) in the 2012 Stony Brook Invitational 8k<a></a> race with a first place finish in a time of 25:24.45.
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<p dir="ltr" align="justify">Last time out, the Friars finished first (of three) at the UNH Dual Meet on Aug. 31 with a near perfect 17 points in the 6k<a></a> race. Providence claimed six of the top seven spots with Quinn and Connor crossing the finish line
together at 18:12 to take first and second, respectively. For his efforts, Quinn earned BIG EAST Male Athlete of the Week honors on Tuesday, Sept. 10. It marked the first time a Friar earned the honor since David McCarthy ‘12 did so in 2008.
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<p>--GO FRIARS-- </p>
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<p><strong>Jennifer Friedman </strong></p>
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<p>Work: (401) 865-1245</p>
<p>Cell: (626) 484-0699</p>
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