Dorchester, Mass. – As he has all season, sophomore Nathan Buck (Portland, Maine) was Clark's top performer, this time  finishing in 44th place as the Cougars turned in a seventh place finish at the England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship on Monday afternoon at Franklin Park.

MIT claimed its 14th consecutive conference title with a total of 19 points and placed its top six runners on the all-conference team. Springfield took second place with 44 points and four All-Conference honors, while Coast Guard nabbed third with 75 points and three All-Conference performers. Babson placed fourth with 113 points, WPI fifth with 122, while Wheaton (190) and Clark (200) rounded out the team scores in sixth and seventh place.

Individually, the Engineers were paced by senior Dan Harper (Naperville, Ill.), sophomore Roy Wedge (Lawrence, Kan.) and senior Stephen Serene (Washington, D.C.) who crossed the finish line 1-2-3 in the 100 runner field. Harper, the NEWMAC Runner of the Year, traversed the 8K course a time of 25:28. Wedge, last year's NEWMAC Runner and Rookie of the Year ran a 25:34, and Serene finished in 25:45 for third place points.

Also for MIT, senior Ben Mattocks (Sharon, Mass.) took fifth in 26:10, while freshman Allen Leung (Arcadia, Calif.) earned NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors with a 26:26 and an eighth place finish. Rounding out the All-Conference performers for the Engineers, junior Logan Trimble (Clearwater, Fla.) took 13thplace in 26:56.

Buck completed the course in 28:20 and was followed closely by Joseph Kennelly (New Windsor, N.Y.) in 39th place in a time of 29:04.

Senior Connor Joyce (Worcester, Mass.) ended the layout in exactly 30:00 good for 40th place, while Rob Gammel (Mattapoisett, Mass.) was three seconds off his pace in 30:03. Freshman Kyle Sullivan (Amherst, Mass.) rounded out Clark's top five in 45th place in 31:06.

Clark will run in the NCAA Division III Northeast Regional in Brunswick, Maine on Saturday, November 12.

2011 NEWMAC Men's Cross Country All-Conference
Dan Harper, MIT
Roy Wedge, MIT
Stephen Serene, MIT
Ryan O'Connell, Springfield
Ben Mattocks, MIT
Brian Fuller, Springfield
Anthony Salvucci, Springfield
Allen Leung, MIT
Zach Pietras, Springfield
Trevor Siperek, Coast Guard
Gary Ezzo, Coast Guard
Mark Gulesian, Babson
Logan Trimble, MIT
Joe Hill, Coast Guard

2011 NEWMAC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year
Dan Harper, MIT

2011 NEWMAC Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Year
Allen Leung, MIT