4 Ephs earn All-NESCAC honors; Raduazo Rookie of the Year

Williams juniors Edgar Kosgey (Eldoret Rift Valley, Kenya) and Jeff Perlis (Bethesda, MD) captured First Team All-NESCAC Men's Cross Country honors, while senior Brendan Christian and first year Anthony Raduazo (Bolton, MA) collected Second Team honors at the recent NESCAC Championship race in Gloucester, Maine.

Kosgey earned First Team honors for the second year in a row with his second place finish in 25:42. Perlis secured a spot on the First Team with his fifth place finish (25:55).

Brendan Christian's (Chicago, IL) ninth place finish (26:12) secured his second year in a row on the Second Team, while Raduazo's 11th place finish (26:13) also landed him on the Second Team.

Raduazo secured the conference rookie of the Year Award when he finished one second ahead of Middlebury first year Michael Schmidt and finished in 11th place.

Placing three runners in the top nine and four in the top 11 and five in the top 17 on the Pineland Farms course the Ephs won their third consecutive NESCAC title and their conference-leading 11th title overall. Three times Williams has won both the men's and women's NESCAC title i the same year, 1996, 1997 and 2008.

Currently Peter Farwell's Ephs are ranked eighth in the national Division III poll and first in New England.

Farwell will rest his top seven this weekend before bringing them back to compete on November 15th at the NCAA Regional qualifier to be hosted by the Ephs at Mt. Greylock HS.