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BY: SEAN WALLACE; SPORTS EDITOR
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The St. Bonaventure men’s cross-country team recorded a program-best 12th-place finish at the Atlantic 10 Championships on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Bonaventure finished with 304 points, placing ahead of the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Graduate student Aiden Scattergood, an environmental studies major, finished 21st out of 120 runners with a time of 24:19.4. His performance marked the fastest 8K time in program history at the Atlantic 10 Championships.
The Bonnies’ top five runners averaged a time of 25:19.
Sophomore Brayden Frair, a biology major from Bradford, Pennsylvania, finished second among the team. He clocked a time of 25:00.0, and he placed 55th in the conference.
Junior Nathan Sikorski, a cybersecurity major from Rochester, New York, delivered a personal-best performance. He crossed the finish line in 25:13.5 to place 68th.
Senior William McCarthy, a finance major from Yorktown, New York, finished 95th with a time of 25:51.6. Sophomore Alexander Rennick, an economics major from Niskayuna, New York, rounded out Bonaventure’s top five with a time of 26:10.1.
Bonaventure’s regional qualifiers will compete in their final meet of the season at the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Northeast Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 13, at Bethpage State Park on Long Island.
