WESTFIELD, Mass. –   Westfield State's men's cross country team placed 19^th at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational cross country meet in Dartmouth, Mass., on Saturday morning.

First-Year Will Buckley (Plymouth, Mass.) topped the Owls scoring group in 60^th place in 26:17 on the five-mile course.   Brandon Hager (Agawam, Mass./Whitman-Hanson HS) placed 66^th among the 256-runner field.

Westfield was 19^th among 32 scoring teams.  Division I UMass Lowell won the meet with 44 points, followed by Trinity (107), WPI (108) and Division II Franklin Pierce (137).  Westfield finished with 533 points.

Suffolk's Matyas Csiki-Fejer won the men's race in 23:36.

In the JV race, senior Alec Krohto (Merrimac, Mass./Pentucket) placed 60^th overall in 29:28 to lead the Owls.  The Westfield men placed 11^th among 13 scoring teams.