This past weekend both University of Hartford men’s and women’s cross country teams had a weekend full of races.

The women’s team had a race on Friday, Sept. 25 at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown at Franklin Park.

They rejoined the men’s team the next day to race at the Ted Owen Invitational in New Britain, Connecticut on Saturday.

The women placed 19th overall on Friday against some of the best teams in New England.

Sara Buckley, who finished in the top 10 of both races she has run this season, led the Hawks, finishing with a time of 18:51 to come in 126th overall.

Julianna Wesley followed in a time of 19:10 (153), followed by Mikela Freeman in 19:29 (170).

Ellie Donlon, 19:48 (180,) and Carly Schuyler rounded out the scoring with a time of 20:11 (193), while Heather Hassett finished just outside the teams top five with a time of 20:15 (195).

Allie Tedeschi finished just ahead of Schuyler, but did not register in the preliminary results due to a timing glitch.

The next day the women rejoined the men.

The men placed second for their meet and the women ended up placing  fourth for their meet.

On the men’s side, Rourk Marlow led the way for the Hawks, placing sixth in a time of 27:04 in the 8K race, just ahead of Kyle Hamel, 27:07 (8) and Willy Pierce, 27:19.3 (9) to give the Hawks three runners in the top 10.

Evan Jaworski placed 15 with a time of 27:45, followed close behind by Aedan Hale, 28:07 (22) and Tim Fitzgerald, 28:08 (23).

Nick Garcia, 28:21 (30) finished sixth among the Hawks, with Larry Yancey, 29:40 (47).

Zach Drown, 29:58 (50) and Kyle Lopes, 31:13 (64) rounded out the runners for the Hawks.    

For the women, Melissa Cummings placed 14th in the 5k with a time of 19:26 to lead the Hartford runners.

Hamel placed 37th in 20:23.

Kaeli Baker, 20:37 (43), Samantha Hock, 20:49 (48) and Courtney Hackman, 21:16 (55) rounded out the Hawks’ top five.

Rachel Brown, 21:49 (64) and Georgette Price, 22:01 (69) also had decent races for Hartford.

The Hawks will have one more meet before the New England Championships, when they race in the University of Saint Joseph Blue Jay Invitational next weekend.

Here they will face the best of the best in New England.