Lyndon State Claims NAC Cross Country Crown LSC men take title in first season in league; UMF women defend their championship JOHNSON, Vt. (November 1, 2008) – The Lyndon State College men’s cross country team won the North Atlantic Conference Championship on Saturday in sunny but very frigid weather at Johnson State College. The men ran first and it was the Hornets from Lyndon State in their first season of NAC competition taking the crown by accumulating the low team score 33. The runner’s up were the University of Maine-Farmington with 54 points with Maine Maritime Academy right behind them with a score of 55. Castleton State came in fourth with 79 points, Johnson State was fifth with 129, and Green Mountain rounded out the field with 169 team points. MMA freshman Matt Methot finished in 3rd place with a time of 29:32 while Lucas Miller finished 5th with a time of 29:51. Evan Vashon finished 10th, Greg Baribault was 18th and Matthew Francis finished out MMA's top five in 19th place. LSC freshman Craig Johnson (North Kingstown, R.I.) was the top-finisher individually with a time of 29:03 to earn him North Atlantic Conference Runner of the Year as well as NAC Rookie of the Year. The next seven finishers earned themselves NAC First Team recognition and they were: 2nd place – Kel Cenga (Brewster, Mass.), UMF; 3rd Place – Matt Methot (Portland, Maine), MMA; 4th Place – Michael Farmer (Colchester, Vt.), LSC; 5th place – Lucas Miller (Belfast, Maine), MMA; 6th place – Jeremiah Powell (Concord, Vt.), LSC; 7th place – Cam Betts (Gray, Maine), UMF; 8th place – Ty Thurlow (Lee, Maine), UMF. Lyndon State Head Coach Chris Ummer was named the Men’s Coach of the Year by his peers while the Hornets completed a fine day by earning the NAC Sportsmanship Award.

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