Rhode Island Wins New England Championship

KINGSTON, R.I. – For the first time since 1952, Rhode Island men’s cross country secured the title of New England Champions by winning the event on Saturday afternoon in Boston, Mass. The Rams scored 31 points with four top 10 finishes to beat out second-place Massachusetts (54 points). New Hampshire finished third in the team standings with 109 points. Rhody’s Ben Fleischer won the 8K race with a time of 24:45.7, pacing the rest of the field by over 30 seconds in a dominant performance. The graduate student was the only competitor that ran a sub-5 minute pace. He was…