First weekly NE-10 honors for both runners

RINDGE, N.H. (September 24, 2013) – Franklin Pierce University men’s cross country runners Antoine Gisore (Concord, N.H.) and B.J. Smith (Concord, N.H.) garnered weekly honors from the Northeast-10 Conference on Tuesday, as Gisore was named the Male Co-Athlete of the Week, and Smith collected the Male Rookie-of-the-Week accolade. It marked the first NE-10 weekly awards for each runner in a Franklin Pierce uniform.

Gisore, a junior, earned the league’s top weekly male award after winning the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Saturday in a time of 24:46.56. It was Gisore’s second individual title in three races this season. Overall, he has finished in the top two of the individual standings in all three events this fall.

Smith. a true freshman, finished eighth out of 210 runners on Saturday at the UMD Invite, as he logged a time of 25:26.43. He has finished among the top-10 of the individual standings in each of his first three collegiate races.

Franklin Pierce is off this weekend, but returns to action on Oct. 5 when the Ravens travel to compete in the Paul Short Run in Bethlehem, Pa.

For more information on Franklin Pierce men’s cross country, please visit the team’s page at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) To follow the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports), Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens). Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce cross country apparel can do so on the athletic department’s online store at athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)