Ned Farrington takes 31st at NCAA Men’s Cross Country Championships, earns All-America honors

NEWVILLE, Pa. — Bates men’s cross country senior captain Ned Farrington represented the Bobcats at the NCAA Division III Championships and finished 31st out of 294 runners on Saturday, becoming the 17th All-American in program history. The top 40 performers at the meet earned All-America honors. Farrington (Cohasset, Mass.) raced to the finish of the 8-kilometer course at Big Spring High School in 25:02.3. “From start to finish Ned executed the plan of being up in All-America contention,” head coach Danny Feldman said. “His guts, supreme confidence, and unrelenting push up the hills was remarkable. The course was incredibly difficult…