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USM's Gabby Cyr Named LEC Runner of the Week

Women’s College Cross Country
September 22, 2008

GORHAM, Maine -- For the second straight week, University of Southern Maine senior Gabrielle “Gabby” Cyr (Fort Kent, Maine) has been named the Little East Conference women’s cross country Runner of the Week following her outstanding performance this past Saturday at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Invitational. Jonathan Harper, commissioner of the Little East, announced the weekly awards Monday afternoon.

Cyr led all Little East competitors across the finish line at the UMD Invitational, placing sixth among the 310 runners with a time of 18 minutes, 39 seconds. Her time was 1:15 faster than her 2007 run, and she improved 55 places in the finishing order.

At the season-opening University of New England Invitational on September 13, Cyr won that race despite going off course around the two-mile mark and having to overtake five runners in the final mile of the 5,000-meter race.

The Huskies finished 15th among the 41 teams competing with 478 points. MIT took the team title with 67 points, followed by Amherst College (88), Brandeis University (130), Colby College (132) and Springfield College (153).

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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