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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 22, 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Contact- Brendan Sullivan (401) 865-1245<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Providence Women’s Cross Country Wins Battle-in-Beantown For Third Straight Season<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<i>The Women beat out Indiana and Georgetown to claim the team title. <o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><a href="http://www.millenniumrunning.com/results-coast-coast-battle-beantown-women-2017-2/22911" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Women's Results</a> |
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Men's Results </a> | <a href="http://www.millenniumrunning.com/results-coast-coast-battle-beantown-open-race-2017/22916" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">
Open Race Results </a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>BOSTON, MASS. –
</b>The Providence College cross country teams competed at the Boston College Battle-in-Beantown Invitational on Friday, Sept. 22. The women claimed the team title in the featured women’s 5,000 meters while the men finished seventh in the featured men’s 8,000
meters. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">The Providence women showed their dominance early in the race. Graduate student Catarina Rocha (Peabody, Mass.), senior Brianna Ilarda (Perth, Australia), sophomore Abbey Wheeler (Pine
City, N.Y.) and senior Millie Paladino (Morgantown, W. Va.) were all part of the lead pack a mile into the 5,000-meter affair. As the field began to break apart, Rocha, Ilarda, and Wheeler all remained as part of the lead group. Coming out of the Wilderness,
the trio made up the majority of the top seven. Rocha would kick home to finish in fourth overall with a time of 17:05, followed by Ilarda in fifth (17:14) and Wheeler in sixth (17:21). Paladino and senior Mackenzie Barry (Mendham, N.J.) rounded out the top
five for Providence. Paladino finished 18<sup>th</sup> (17:39) and Barry took 38<sup>th</sup> (18:04). The women won the team title with 71 points over Indiana (78 points) and Georgetown (78 points). This is the third season in a row that the women have claimed
the team title and the fourth time in five years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Senior Aaron Hanlon (Drogheda, Ireland) highlighted the men’s 8,000-meter race for Providence with a 24<sup>th</sup> place finish. Both junior Marcus Karamanolis (Wellington, New Zealand)
and junior Michael O’Leary (St. James, N.Y.) had strong races as both moved up in the second half of the race to finish in 32<sup>nd</sup> and 35<sup>th</sup> place, respectively.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">In the open race, freshman Angus White (New Plymouth, New Zealand) finished third overall in a time of 15:52.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Providence will next race a “B” team at the New England Championships at Franklin Park on Saturday, Oct. 7. Providence’s top team will race at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational
on Friday, Oct. 13. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>-GO FRIARS!-
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>TOP 10 FINISHERS (WOMEN)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">1-Elinor Purrier (UNH) – 16:49<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">2-Katherine Receveur (Indiana) – 17:03<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">3-Paige Stoner (Syracuse) – 17:04<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">4-<b>Catarina Rocha (Providence) – 17:05<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">5-<b>Brianna Ilarda (Providence) -17:14<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">6-<b>Abbey Wheeler (Providence) 17:21<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">7-Heather MacLean (UMASS Amherst) – 17:23<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">8-Margaret Allen (Indiana) – 17:23<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">9- Josette Norris (Georgetown) – 17:29<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">10- Olivia Lantz (Dartmouth) – 17:30<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>PROVIDENCE FINISHES (WOMEN)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">4-Rocha, 5-Ilarda, 6-Wheeler, 18-Paladino, 38-Barry, 45- Katie Lembo, 46- Maria Coffin, 132-Alex DeCicco<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>WOMEN’S TEAM FINISHES<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>1-Providence
</b>71<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">2- Indiana- 78<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">3- Georgetown- 78<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">4- Dartmouth- 132<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">5- Cornell – 143<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>TOP 10 FINISHES (MEN)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">1- Jesse Reiser (Illinois) – 24:13<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">2- Jonathan Davis (Illinois)- 24:13<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">3-Colin Bennie (Syracuse) – 24:14<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">4-Philo Germano (Syracuse)- 24:14<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">5-Aidan Tooker (Syracuse)- 24:15<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">6-Ben Veatch (Indiana)- 24:23<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">7- Paul Luevana (Boston University) – 24:25<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">8- Matt Mahoney (Brown)- 24:28<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">9-Alexander Seal (Boston University) – 24:30<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">10- Kyle Mau (Indiana) – 24:32<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>FULL PROVIDNECE FINISHES (MEN)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>24-Aaron Hanlon, 32- Marcus Karamanolis, 35- Michael O’Leary, 46-Tom O’Neill, 48-Liam Harris, 53- Austin Scola, 72-David Rosas, 73-Peter Rindfuss<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b>MEN’S TEAM FINISHES<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">1- Syracuse - 35<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">2-Illinois - 56<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">3-Indiana - 106<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">4-Brown - 117<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">5- Boston University - 131<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">6- UMASS Lowell - 166<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">7-<b>Providence - 180<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">8-Lehigh - 241<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">9-Dartmouth- 247<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">10-Albany- 261<o:p></o:p></p>
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