Boston College won the women's team title and Vermont's Zoey McNabb took the individual championship at Friday's New England cross country meet in Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
BC finished with 47 points, ahead of Providence with 76 and Bryant with 78. The Eagles placed all five scoring runners in the top 17, according to the school's Oct. 9 report. Maria Linton led BC with a third-place finish; Gabrielle Hamel was eighth.
McNabb became Vermont's first women's individual winner at the meet since Judi St. Hilaire in 1980, according to the Catamounts' report. Vermont's women finished fourth.
In the men's event, Providence won with 85 points. Vermont finished third with 87, led by Will Locke in fifth place and Will Just in 14th.
BC next competes at the Pre-National Invitational Oct. 16. Vermont hosts the Fall Foliage Invite Oct. 18 at Hard'ack Recreation Area in St. Albans, with the women starting at 12:30 p.m. and the men at 1:15 p.m.