North Dartmouth, Mass. – The Fitchburg State women's cross country team placed twenty-eighth at the UMass Dartmouth Cross Country Invitational. Teams across NCAA Division I, II, and III participated in the event.

The Basics

Meet: UMass Dartmouth Invitational
Place: 28th place, 755 points (38 Teams)

How It Happened                             

Senior Abigail Murphy (Quincy, Mass.) paced Fitchburg State with a 78^th place time of 19:43.17 over the 5K layout, while freshman Skye Goba (Norton, Mass.) followed with a time of 20:05.65.

Senior Maria Burnett (Fitchburg, Mass.) and first-year Diana Marquez-Frias (Lowell, Mass.) crossed the finish line with times of 20:14.48 and 22:18.06, respectively.

Rounding out the top six finishers were senior Courtney Brouillet (Fitchburg, Mass.) and Marjorie Veliotis (Stoughton, Mass.).

UMass Lowell won the meet with a total of 54 points. Stonehill finished in second place (120), just edging out SNHU (121).

Up Next

The Falcons return to action on Saturday (9/24) when they head to Bowdoin College Invitational.