Hempstead, NY – The Hofstra Men's Cross Country team heads to Boston, Massachusetts this Friday, November 13 for the 2015 NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships. The 10K men's meet begins at 1 p.m. at Franklin Park.
 
More than 250 student-athletes from 38 colleges will compete on the Franklin Park course, which hosted the 2014 Colonial Athletic Association Cross Country Championships as well as the 2009 NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships. In the most recent United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association men's rankings as of November 2, the Orange of Syracuse sit in the top spot in the Northeast Region with Iona, Columbia, Providence, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UMass Lowell and Brown filling in the top 10.

In Hofstra's most-recent competition on October 31, graduate-student Douglas Dourado recorded the second-best 8K time in school history to place 12th and led the Pride team to a fourth-place finish (112 pts.) at the 2015 Colonial Athletic Association Championships in Charleston. The fourth-place team finish is the best for the Pride since joining the CAA in 2001. The previous best was a fifth-place finish in 2007.

Dourado, who earned All-CAA honors with his 12th-place finish, clocked a time of 25:13, which was 11 seconds off of Daniel Rono's 8K school record of 25:02 set at the 2010 CAA Championship at UNCW. Dourado also led the Pride for the fourth time in four meets this season.
 
In addition to Dourado, Hofstra sophomore Alan Hetherington set a personal-record in the 8K, clocking a time of 25:43 to place 19th. His time was also the 11th-best 8K time in school history. Junior Jack Finlayson was the third Pride finisher, posting a time of 26:10 to place 26th. Red-shirt sophomore Riley Leder placed 31st in 26:31 while junior Michael Simon was Hofstra's final scorer, placing 38th in 27:10. Sophomore Rodney Chirchir was 45th in 28:10 and junior Austin Jenkins completed the Pride line-up, placing 47th in 28:25. All seven Hofstra student-athletes are expected to compete in the NCAA Regional Friday.
 
In the 2014 NCAA Northeast Regional Championship at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Finlayson recorded a personal-record to lead the Hofstra Men's Cross Country Team to a 35th-place finish with 1055 points. Syracuse, the number one team in the region and the third-ranked team in the country at the time, won the regional team title with 45 points by placing all five of their scoring runners in the top 15. Providence (48) was on the heels of the Orange in second place while Iona (60), behind individual champion Jake Byrne, was third. Byrne posted a time of 30:26 for the title.

Finlayson, who led the Pride in a meet for the second time in his career, posted a 10K time of 33:03 to place 156th. He topped his previous 10K-best time, set at the 2013 NCAA Regional also at Van Cortlandt Park, by 1:27.

Freshman Daniel Barlev was the Pride's second finisher in the 2014 regional, clocking a time of 33:14 to finish 174th. Hetherington placed 217th in 34:06 while Jenkins was 249th in 35:41. Simon was 259th in 37:20.

Friday's NCAA Northeast Regional will be the final cross country meet of the season for the Pride.