ATTLEBORO, Mass. – The Yale men's cross country team finished seventh (176 points) at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships Saturday morning at sunny Highland Park's Mark Coogan Cross Country Course. 
 
No. 16 Harvard (23 points) won the meet. The Crimson's Tam Gavenas finished first individually (22:56.8). 

• Full Results

 
The Bulldogs: 

• Sophomore Magnus Manley (22nd, 24:28.1) was Yale's top finisher. He moved steadily through the pack over the last 4.6K of the race, having been 34th at the 3.4K mark.
• Senior Daegan Cutter (24th, 24:30.1), Yale's captain, was Yale's second finisher. He had the team's fastest split (3:00.4) over the final 1K.
• Junior Lucas Cohen (37th, 24:49.7) was Yale's third finisher.
• Junior Colter Sienkiewicz (46th, 25:07.8) and first-year Blake Sigworth (56th, 25:12.2) finished within five seconds of each other to complete Yale's top five.
• Senior Guy Stevens (61st, 25:20.2) and sophomore James Thomas (75th, 25:55.3) rounded out the Bulldogs' top seven.
• Yale's other finishers included junior Seb Sutch (78th, 26:09.8), first-year Bodie Thomas (79th, 26:23.3) and first-year Charlie Palmore (84th, 26:47.8). 

Up Next:

• Yale will compete at the NCAA Northeast Regionals on Friday, Nov. 13 at Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage, N.Y.  The Bulldogs placed fifth at Regionals last year. 
• NCAA Championships selections will be announced by 5:00 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 14 on ncaa.com.
• The NCAA Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships provide for a maximum of 32 (five-to-seven-person) teams and 38 individuals per gender. 
  • Eighteen teams automatically qualify for the championships races by finishing as one of the top two teams at any of the nine regional races. 
  • The remaining 14 at-large teams are selected by the NCAA Division I Cross Country Subcommittee. 
  • Thirty-six individuals automatically qualify for the championships races by being one of the top four regional finishers not on an advancing team. 
  • Two additional individuals are selected at-large by the committee.