Elyas Ayyoub Finishes as Runner-Up as Cross Country Teams Open Season

By: Adam Rubin STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Junior Elyas Ayyoub resumed cross country competition at the same high level at which he left off last season. Ayyoub finished second at the Stony Brook Season Opener on Saturday with a 6.2K time of 18:49.20. He finished less than seven seconds behind winner Shane Henderson of the host Seawolves, and amid four Stony Brook runners who finished in the top six. “I’m not going to lie. I was expecting to win,” said Ayyoub, the reigning NEC Scholar-Athlete for cross country. “I went in thinking, ‘I did so much work over the summer.…