The University of Maine’s cross country teams competed Friday at the Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships in Bronx, New York.

Neither team was looking for the win, just good performances to end the long season on a high note. Runners from both the women’s and the men’s sides did just that in their biggest meet of the year.

Second-year runner Levi Frye led the Black Bears with an 87th place finish with a time of 31:59.6, a minute better than 2013 where Frye ran the 10k in 33:00.3. Third-year Jesse Orach was the second Black Bear to finish, finishing .1 second behind Frye in 88th.

UMaine finished 22nd overall as a men’s team out of 36 of the best teams in the Eastern United States with a score of 620. Syracuse won the meet with a score of 45, three points better than Providence College’s 48.

First-year UMaine runner Joshua Horne finished in 135th with a time of 32:44.5, while second-year teammate Lucas Bourget finished two spots behind with a finishing time of 32:48.8.

On the girls side, the Black Bears finished 37th out of 40 teams. The 6K race was led by the third-year runner Annabelle Wilson who finished in 145th place with a time of 22:47.8. Not far behind was fourth-year Carolyn Stocker finishing 153rd clocking in at 22:54.4.

First-year Cassandra Howard finished off her final race of her first season as a collegiate athlete with a time of 24:18.5 which placed her in 236th out of 275 women runners. Two more UMaine athletes were close behind, third-year Shannon O’Neil and first-year Faith Shaw finished in 247th and 248th, respectively.

Iona’s women’s team took home the win over Providence who finished runner-up in both races as a team.