CASTLETON, Vt. – Senior Max Goodman (South Salem, N.Y.) led Plymouth State University with a fifth-place individual finish as the Panthers placed fourth at the Little East Conference (LEC) Cross Country Championship on Saturday.
 
Goodman completed the 8K course in 25:47.4 to earn All-LEC First Team honors. Seniors Angelo DeLuca (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Ben Colby (Manchester, N.H.) finished just over a second apart, placing 20th and 21st, respectively. Junior Noah Francis (Bethlehem, N.H.), sophomore Alex LeClair (Presque Isle, Maine) and senior Cooper O'Neil (Millbury, Mass.) finished 25th, 26th and 27th, respectively, while junior Peter Swain (Wakefield, Mass.) rounded out the Panthers' top seven with a 29th-place finish.
 
Plymouth State finished fourth in the team standings with 97 points. Keene State captured the team title with 28 points, followed by UMass Dartmouth (66) and Eastern Connecticut (80) to round out the top three.
 
 
The Basics:

• Little East Conference Championship – 4th of 9 Teams

Team Results:

• Keene State (1st – 28), UMass Dartmouth (2nd – 66), Eastern Connecticut (3rd – 80), Plymouth State (4th – 97), Southern Maine (5th – 114), WestConn (6th – 179), UMass Boston (7th – 197), Castleton (8th – 237), Rhode Island College (9th – 239)

 
Individual Results:  
  
Up Next:

• The Panthers head to the NCAA Division III East Regional Championship at Wainwright Recreation Complex in South Portland, Maine on Nov. 14.