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Methuen Angus MacDonald Named UMass Lowell/Lowell Five Athlete of the Week
October 15, 2009 · Please Comment
From UMASS/Lowell River Hawks
Oct. 14, 2009
Methuen Junior Leads River Hawks to Coveted New England Championship
Angus MacDonald, a junior from Methuen, MA (Central Catholic H.S.), was named the Lowell Five Savings Bank Athlete of the Week Tuesday after leading the UMass Lowell men’s cross country team to the New England Championship Saturday at Franklin Park.
The New England title was UMass Lowell’s second straight and third in the last four years. The River Hawks, who scored 93 points (8, 9, 16, 29, 31 – 35), defeated the likes of UMass Amherst (116), Providence (171), New Hampshire (181) and Stonehill (235).
MacDonald led UMass Lowell by placing eighth in the field of 320 (47 teams) with a time of 24:55 for the five-mile course. Only 31 seconds separated the five scoring runners for the River Hawks.
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