Final Results

VICTOR, NY – Junior Cade Eells finished second overall and led the Nazareth University Men's Cross Country team to a second place team finish at the Empire 8 Championship meet Saturday at the Parkview Fairways Golf Course.

With the second-place team finish senior Ethan Glashauser was selected as the Empire 8 Torchbearer Award winner.

Nazareth finished second in the team standings with 44 points, just 13 points behind Houghton (31) who placed all five scoring runners in the top-10. Utica (70 points) was third just one point ahead of St. John Fisher (71). Alfred (152) was fifth and Hartwick (178) sixth in the team standings. Keuka and Sage had incomplete teams.

While Eells finished second overall, junior Ethan Kenyon (25:59.4) was seventh and graduate student Nathan Bowers (26:00.8) was eighth for the Golden Flyers. The sophomore duo of Antonio Benitez (26:21.8) and Connor Jackson (26:28.4) crossed the line in 13th and 14th place respectively to round out the Nazareth scoring. Glashauser was 20th overall with a time of 26:53.6.