BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. --  Babson placed its five scorers in the top 11 to post a team total of 33 points and take top honors at the Ninth Annual Massachusetts Maritime Lt. Travis J. Fuller Women's Cross Country Invitational Saturday morning along the banks of the Cape Cod Canal.

Junior Marina Capalbo (Gainesville, Va.) paced the victorious Beavers by taking top individual honors with a course record time of 18:25 over the three mile layout, while sophomore Kelli Halligan (Melrose, Mass.) was two spots back in third place with a time of 20:42.  Sophomore April Goya (Oceanside, Calif.) was next for Babson with an eighth place time of 21:38, while the tandem of sophomore Katie Donovan (Darien, Conn.) and junior Rebekah Miller (Johnson, N.Y.) rounded out the scoring for the winners with respective finishes of 10^th (21:58) and 11^th (22:04) place.

Rivier took runner-up honors in the team competition with a score of 64 points, as senior Laura DeChristoforo (Burlington, Mass.) and sophomore Christina Dick (Tewksbury, Mass.) posted respective fourth (21:10) and sixth (21:25) individual finishes for the Raiders.  Emerson claimed third place with a team score of 90 points, as the duo of junior Alison Doukas (Littleton, Mass.) and freshman Jenna Castro notched second (19:22) and seventh (21:29) place individual performances for the Lions, while sophomore Leigha Sweeney's (Braintree, Mass.) fifth place time of 21:21 helped Curry finish fourth in the team standings with 98 points.

Framingham State finished fifth in the final team standings with a score of 116 points, while Massachusetts Maritime (123) and Eastern Nazarene (163) followed in sixth and seventh places, respectively.  Mount Ida, Newbury and Suffolk did not have team scores for the competition.

Senior Liz Leonardi (Sandwich, Mass.) was the top individual runner for the host Buccaneers, as she placed 13^th with a time of 22:14, while senior Jenelle Piche (Coventry, R.I.) and sophomore Dominique Dertien (Panama City, Fla.) followed in 20^th and 26^th place, respectively, with times of 23:00 and 23:43.  Freshmen Kylie Foster (Sandwich, Mass.) and Celeste Menard (Annandale, Va.) rounded out Massachusetts Maritime's scoring by finishing 33^rd and 46^th, respectively, with times of 24:20 and 25:57.

Curry College heads to Biddeford, Maine next Saturday morning to compete in the University of New England Invitational that begins at 11:30 a.m.

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