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Volume CXXXII, Number 8 |
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Best of the best sir: XC #1 in NESCAC
CONOR O'BRIEN & TODD FORSGREN
STAFF WRITERS
The Bowdoin Men's Cross Country Team traveled down to the fields of Tufts' veterinary school for a ragged pagan scene that was the NESCAC championship meet. Their competitors proved to be about as useful as cops at the scene of a crime.
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| Bowdoin runners run past a police cruiser and its fan(s). In 2002, the men's Cross Country team once again claimed supremacy as the premiere running squad in the NESCAC. (Karsten Moran, Bowdoin Orient) |
The team had a handy victory, defeating second place Williams College by over 30 points-kissing the Ephs' fantasies of a NESCAC title goodbye.
The victory represents the team's second consecutive NESCAC title. Last year, Bowdoin came into the meet the favorite, but this season, after early losses to Bates and Williams at Open New England's, they were the underdogs.
Pat "Kennedy" Vardaro '03 was the first Polar Bears finisher, coming in fifth and running free with the wind blowing through his butterscotch hair. Pat was particularly pleased to have raced so well in his home constituency of Massachusetts.
The sea of fools parted for the senior triumvirate of Jeff Ditka "Aaron" Rubens, Scott Evil "Intensity" Barbuto, and Todd "Sound and Fury" Forsgren, who finished eighth, ninth, and tenth respectively. After the race, Barbuto, who appeared hypnotized by a strange delight, commented "give me more!"
The Bears needed just one last nail to seal the rest of the NESCAC in their coffins of defeat. This came in the form of sophomore Benjy "Dirty Batch" Archibald Peisch XVI. Peisch, Bowdoin's fifth finisher, placed ahead of the third place runner on every other NESCAC squad.
Scott "Explosivity" Herrick '04 floated past the finish line next, just like a bubble, making chance in the sunlight. Daniel "Lone Shark of Bliss" Gulotta '03 and Conor Savage "Rude Child" O'Brien followed closely behind Herrick, adding authority to the victory.
"Nothing's better than watching a team like Williams come in second," commented "Rude Child" O'Brien '03.
Coach Peter Slovenski remarked on the race, "It was a victory march for the boys. They really put their hearts into the recipe for success." Slovenski appeared very excited after the victory, but whether that was due to the race or to excessive sugar intake from a particularly delicious batch of brownies baked by Kate "Bubbles" Waller '02 can only be speculated.
This Saturday the team will send a JV squad to run in the ECAC championship meet at Williams College to give the varsity squad a weeks rest before the New England Division III championship meet at Westfield State on November 16.ovember 16.