Sports
Dartmouth men's runners stormed to an NCAA qualifying bid and the women saw one of their own also make the cut as the Big Green cross country teams ran at the NCAA Northeast Region Meet in Boston's Franklin Park Saturday.
The men, ranked 16th nationally, took second out of 33 teams with a score of 50, bested only by Iona College's 33.
Providence College finished third with a score of 67.
"At the beginning of the season, Iona was ranked sixth," said men's coach Barry Harwick '77 of Iona's first place score.
"[Saturday] was the first time Iona was together [as a full team] and they are probably in the top six in the country."
He also added, "[Dartmouth] ran very, very well and I think this puts us in a great position going into the nationals."
Ben True '08 led the scoring for Dartmouth yet again, finishing third overall in a field of over 200 in 30:03.8, and Alec Wall '08 was close behind, taking seventh in 30:07.5.