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/26/2014 4:46:00 PM The Syracuse men finished second and the women took third in the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on Friday.

The No.8 'Cuse men placed nine runners in the top-25 and totaled 52 points, falling to No. 1 Oregon who took the meet with 24 points. The No. 14 women put five runners inside of the top-40 en route to a third-place finish with 134-points.

No. 1 Michigan took the women's race with 55 points, followed by No. 5 Georgetown (77 points).

The Orange men were led by junior Martin Hehir, who finished fourth overall in the 8k race with a time of 24:31. Seniors Reed Kamyszek finished eighth (24:37) and Max Straneva took ninth (24:40) respectively.

Junior Dan Lennon (2:47/15th) and sophomore MJ Erb (24:49/16th) rounded out the 'Cuse scoring.
Freshman Justyn Knight took 20th in his collegiate debut and was the second freshman to cross the line at the meet with a time of 24:53, he was followed by Colin Bennie (24:55/23rd), Ryan Urie (24:56/24th) and Joel Hubbard (24:56/25th) in the top-25 overall.

Senior Jessie Petersen was the top finisher for the Orange women, taking 10th with a time of 17:17) in the 5k race.

Margo Malone, who took 16th overall (17:25), with Sydney Leiher (17:47/31st), Maura Linde (17:54/38th) and freshman Haley Cutright (17:56/39th) rounding out the 'Cuse scoring.

SU will return to action on Oct. 17, when the team heads to the Wisconsin Meet of Champions, in Madison Wisconsin.
 
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Orange women take third at the Battle in Beantown behind No. 1 Michigan and No. 5 Georgetown. Men's race upcoming.

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XC: Men take second at the Battle-in-Beantown. Martin Hehir takes fourth overall to lead the Orange.
 
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Boston College’s Liv Westphal has been named the ACC Women’s Cross Country Performer of the Week, while Syracuse’s Martin Hehir was selected as the Men’s Cross Country Performer of the Week.

Westphal, a 2013 All-American, placed first overall in a field of 207 runners at the Battle in Beantown this past weekend in Boston, Mass. In leading the 17th-ranked Eagles to a fourth-place finish in a 21-team field that included six ranked teams, the Limoges, France, senior covered the 5k course in a meet record time of 16:30, finishing 21 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.

In earning his third ACC Performer of the Week award, Hehir came in fourth in a field of 184 runners at the Battle in Beantown this past weekend in Boston, Mass. In leading the eighth-ranked Orange to a second-place finish in a 19-team field that included three ranked teams, the Washingtonville, N.Y., junior ran the 8k course in 24:31, only 11 seconds off the individual champion time.
 
http://dailyorange.com/2014/10/new-...-country-state-paying-dividends-for-syracuse/

New York’s status as ‘best cross-country state’ paying dividends for Syracuse
By Sam FortierContributing Writer
9 hours ago

Last season, Syracuse head coach Chris Fox led the men’s cross-country team to 10th place in the NCAA championships, its best finish in 56 years.
He accomplished that with a roster featuring three of 21 runners from west of the Mississippi River.
That ratio is the same this season and the lack of geographical diversity is no coincidence. When it comes to recruiting for Syracuse, it’s had its most success recruiting runners from New York state. The tactic — which is coupled with aggressive recruiting along the east coast — has worked, as the most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association coaches’ poll has the Orange eighth in the nation, and first in the Atlantic Coast Conference by a six-spot margin.
“(New York) is very fertile,” Fox said. “It’s the best cross-country state in the country because the sport is traditional and the big population.”
Though Syracuse’s roster is stocked with local talent, SU still puts many resources toward national recruiting.
But in Fox’s eight-person freshman class on the men’s team, Ontario native Justyn Knight is the only runner from west of New York, and four out the eight runners are from the state itself. Ever since he was hired by SU in 2005, Fox has said it’s a priority to get the best prospects in New York state every year if they are good enough.
Yet it’s not the only state Fox looks in.
“Recruiting is nationwide. It’s not local at all,” Fox said. “Letters go out from (recruiting director) coach (Brien) Bell to every good kid in the country.”
Syracuse assistant coach Adam Smith is one of the team’s main recruiters. He credits the large staff — the Orange has four distance coaches — for allowing him to be on the road so much.
When he is on the road, it’s usually in the Northeast because that’s an area in which Syracuse has had success. Since Syracuse is the running powerhouse of the Northeast, it is much easier to convince kids from the area to run in the climate they’re used to.
“We attack our strengths,” Smith said. “We try to be at all the big meets to show the New York kids love.
“ … We don’t have as much luck recruiting kids from the south. They don’t want to come up north, in the cold, and run.”
The same principle generally applies when Syracuse recruits in the West Coast, but there are exceptions.
Ryan Urie of San Diego, California, and Andrew Bennison of Portland, Oregon, are two of the three Syracuse runners from west of the Mississippi River. They specifically mentioned feeling adventurous and weren’t worried about culture changes coming east.
“I’m not afraid of the weather,” Urie said.
Bennison expressed the same thought, saying the strength of the program outweighed the unfamiliarity.
A major part of getting them to Syracuse is that both Urie’s and Bennison’s high school coaches had prior, longstanding relationships with Fox and told the head coach about them.
After finding them, though, Fox and the SU coaching staff had to sell the program. What’s convincing recruits — from New York, the East Coast and West Coast — is that Syracuse is on the upswing. Last year its ranking was the highest since it won its first, and only, NCAA Division I men’s cross country championship in 1951.
And while the majority of the roster is recruiting in state due to the program’s influence in the area, Fox and his staff continue to look all over for top talent.
“In a way (during recruiting) we’re used car salesmen,” Fox said. “But we didn’t sell them a lemon. We gave them a good product.”
 
Orange men 6, women 12 in latest USTFCCCA poll
The Syracuse men's cross country team got another bump in the rankings this week.

The team sits at sixth in the latest USTFCCCA poll after occupying the No. 8 spot last week. The top-five remains unchanged this week besides Oregon and Northern
Arizona switching between No. 2 and 3. The 'Cuse men, who have 283 points in this week's poll, sit behind Colorado (360 pts.), Oregon (341 pts.), Northern Arizona (334 pts.), Oklahoma State (327 pts.) and Portland (290 pts.).

The Syracuse women occupy the No. 12 rank in this week's poll, moving down a spot despite not racing. Michigan still occupies the No. 1 spot in the women's poll.

Both Orange programs remain the top-ranked teams from the Northeast region as they have all season long.

SU returns to action on Oct. 17 at the Wisconsin Meet of Champions
 
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