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Cyr Leads Southern Maine to 15th Place Finish at UMD Invitational
Women's College Cross Country

September 20, 2008

NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Senior Gabby Cyr (Fort Kent, Maine) turned in an outstanding performance Saturday coming home in sixth place overall to pace the University of Southern Maine women’s cross country efforts at the 2008 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “Shriners” Cross Country Invitational.

Cyr covered the 5,000-meter course in a time of 18 minutes, 39 seconds to finish sixth overall. Cyr’s time was 1:16 faster than her 2007 time of 19:55, and she improved 55 places in the finishing order.

Junior captain Sarah Myrick (Weybridge, Vt./Middlebury Union) came across the line in 19:47 to place 71st overall. Sophomore Carly Dion (Biddeford, Maine) posted an 82nd place finish among the 310 competitors with a time of 19:53.

Rounding out USM’s five scoring runners were sophomores Kayleigh Shrader (Kennebunk, Maine) in 130th position overall (20:52) and Alexandra Raynor (Lamoine, Maine/Mount Desert Island) in 171st place (21:24).

MIT took the team title with 67 points, followed by Amherst College  (88), Brandeis University (130), Colby College (132) and Springfield College (153). Southern Maine finished 15th (428) among the 41 team competing.

Melissa Donais, an unattached runner, was the individual winner with a time of 18:03.

After an off week, the Huskies will return to action on October 4 when they travel to Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.) for the Pop Crowell Invitational.

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