In the first race since the Alumni Meet, the Men's Cross Country Team showed their potential. Even though they started a bit slow and got left at the starting line, Tech ran a great race, placing 10th in the All New England Meet (3rd among Division III Colleges).

Doing their best group running of the year, the team gradually moved up from their poor start at about 100th position to finishes of 52 - 75 for the top 5 runners (Mike Parkins '99 25:24 for 52nd, Chris McGuire '00 25:38 for 66th, Josh Feldman '97 25:38 for 67th, Arnold Seto 'G 25:45 for 74th, and Leif Seed '99 25:46 for 75th). The most impressive part of this performance was the 22 second gap between the 5 runners.

The successful running was not confined to the top group. 15 of the competing 17 runners ran season best times. The most significant of those was a 57 second improvement by Frank Johnston '00 who ran 26:48 to place 51st in the sub-varsity race.

With only 2 teams from New England qualifying for the National Division III Championships, MIT must find a way to improve enough to earn one of those positions. Currently, the engineers are seeded 4th behind Williams, Tufts, and Brandeis. The Regional Qualifier is in 3 weeks at Westfield State College.

Next week, the Techmen must defend their Constitution Athletic Conference Championship at Franklin Park, which they have won 5 consecutive times. Race time will be at 2:00.