NEW BRITAIN, PA - The men's cross country team raced to a 10^th place finish in the 8K at the Middle Atlantic Conference Cross Country Championship hosted by Delaware Valley. Alex Seskar's (Great Mills, Md./Great Mills) finish landed him Third Team All-Conference honors for the first time in his career.
 
Top Times
 
Seskar marked a time of 27:09.8 to land in 28^th to lead all Blazers. He got warmed up in the first two kilometers with a 6:36 and then increased his times to get ahead of the bunch.
 
Chris Sappe (Ijamsville, Md./Urbana), who had started in front of Seskar finished 10 seconds behind for a solid 27:19.8 just outside of the Top 30 with a 32^nd place finish.
 
Warren Hersh (Havre de Grace, Md./The Tome School) found himself inside the Top 100 with a time of 29:28.4 followed by Alonzo Miles (Washington, DC/KIPP DC College Prep) (30:34.1), Leule Yohannes (Rockville, Md./Richard Montgomery) (30:34.3) and Ramzee Keyrouz (Bethesda, MD/Walter Johnson) (31:56.8) to round out the Blazers.
 
On the Leaderboard 
 
Rory Liberman of Lebanon Valley College earned the gold medal as the Dutchmen took the team chip with five runners all placing inside the Top 15.

2025 MAC MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY AWARDS

Team Champion: Lebanon Valley 
Runner of the Year / Individual Champion: Rory Lieberman, Lebanon Valley
Rookie of the Year: Kaleb Kabakjian, Messiah
Coach of the Year: James O'Brien, Lebanon Valley

All-MAC First Team (1st-10th)
1. Rory Lieberman, Lebanon Valley
2. Louka Fetter, Messiah
3. Trey Rhinehart, Misericordia
4. Joe Chukoskie, Lebanon Valley
5. Joey Wilson, DeSales
6. Ryan Weber, Misericordia
7. Kaleb Kabakjian, Messiah
8. Ryle Mellinger, Eastern
9. Eric Shelton, Lebanon Valley
10. Lukas Walko, Lebanon Valley

All-MAC Second Team (11th-20th)
11. Kyle Costello, Messiah
12. Andrew Namatka, Lebanon Valley
13. Ryan Shulman, Misericordia
14. Wyatt Leitzel, Lebanon Valley
15. Sean Baxter, Messiah
16. John Condon, Messiah
17. Samuel Hennett, Messiah
18. Thomas Bricker, Misericordia
19. Mick Barbi, Stevens
20. Josiah Carnwath, Messiah

All-MAC Third Team (21st-30th)
21. Dylan Lenhart, Lebanon Valley
22. Spencer Hahn, Alvernia
23. Bryce Phillips, DeSales
24. Sam Rothstein, Lebanon Valley
25. Zachary Rementer, Widener
26. Caleb Stephen, Stevens
27. Zeke Colyer, Messiah
28. Alex Seskar (Great Mills, Md./Great Mills), Hood
29. Samuel Bower, Lebanon Valley
30. Ben Williamson, Arcadia