CMS men compete in Westfield

3 CMS men under 15:00

8 CMS men under 15:42

15 CMS men under 17:00

20 CMS men under 20:00

Unofficial, preliminary results below

CMS Open and CMS Veterans (60+) placed 3^rd while the CMS Masters (40+) and CMS Seniors (50+) placed 1^st overall at the 2019 USATF New England Grand Prix 5K Championship in Westfield on Saturday. The Westfield Fast 5K was the 3^rd event within the 7 race series for the year. The next event will take place in Shelburne Falls, MA on August 10^thwith the Bridge of Flowers 8K.

The open team had three runners break 15 minutes for the 3rd place CMS open team. CMS was led by Pat Fullerton with an 11^th place, 14:47.6. Dan Vassallo (14:49.8) and Adam Malek (14:55.5) both dipped under 15 minutes with their 14^thand 17^th placings. Scott Mindel, weeks off his 2:27 Pittsburgh Marathon, ran 15:05.9 for 20^th place, six seconds off his time in Westfield in 2018 . DJ Raboin capped the scoring for the open team with his 27^thplace, 15:26. BAA placed 2nd^st behind WMDP. 13 teams competed in the open division.

Senior, Tim Van Orden nearly broke 16 with a 16:00.6 clocking to lead the 1^st place CMS Masters team over 2^ndplace Dirigo RC and HFC. Greg Putnam (16:09.5), Patrick Rich (16:23.2),  Arthur Besse (16:44.9), and Joe Shairs (16:50.9) rounded out the scoring for the 40+ team who outpaced Dirigo RC and HFC by over two minutes where 11 teams competed.

Beyond Tim and Joe, David Principe also broke 17 minutes with a 16:56.6 for the 1^st place senior team. Dave Dunham and David Lapierre would score out the top five for the 50+ team who edged HFC and WRT.

Paul Bazanchuk came back to his former hometown to lead the Veterans team (60+) to a 3^rd place team behind GLRR and SMAC with his 20:07.7 performance. Running his 3^rd GP in as many in 2019, Stephen Drouin ran 21:20.1. Vin Garofoli made his USATF New England Grand Prix debut with a 21:52.0 time.

Individual results here: https://my.racewire.com/results/35732