MECHANICSVILLE, Va. – Loyola Chicago won the Atlantic 10 Men’s Cross Country Championship with 37 points Saturday morning at Pole Green Park, led by individual winner Chris Devaney. The Ramblers swept the A-10 Cross Country Championships, also winning the women’s title earlier in the morning.
 
The Ramblers had five runners finish in the top-15 with Devaney crossing the finish line first at 23:59.6 and Ryan Martins in second place, just one-tenth behind Devaney (23:59.7). Blake Buysse placed ninth at 24:19.5, Jason Clayton was 11^th at 24:27.9, and Sean O’Connell rounding out the LUC scoring with a 14^th place finish at 24:36.3. A Loyola’s Gavin Kennedy won A-10 Coach of the Year for leading the Ramblers to a team title their first year in the league.
  La Salle finished second with 48 points. Last year champions, the Explorers had four runners within the top 15. Ibrahim Kedir who finished the 8K race in 24:02.2 to place third overall, followed by MacCallum Rowe, who earned Most Outstanding Rookie honors by taking fifth in 24:09.7. Taonga Mbambo was eighth overall at 24:17.6 and Finn Birnie clocked in at 24:33.7 to place 12^th.
 
George Washington finished in third place with 98 points and George Mason who finished in fourth place with 103 points each had two finishers crack the top 15. Ryan Fowkes (24:11.6) at sixth and Michael Bohlke (24:37.7) at 15^th for the Colonials. The Patriots had Jack Ikenberry (24:08.1) finish fourth overall and Wesley Bond (24:11.8) place seventh for the Patriots.
 
Saint Louis was fifth at 153 points, Saint Joseph’s at sixth with 165 points, and Dayton finishing seventh at 193 points.
 
The Atlantic 10 All-Conference Team consists of the top-15 runners: Devaney, Martins, Buysse, Clayton, and O’Connell of Loyola Chicago, Kedir, Rowe, Mbambo, and Birnie of La Salle, George Washington’s Fowkes and Bohlke, George Mason’s Ikenberry and Bond, with Saint Louis’ Toby Gillen, and Davidson’s Owen Drometer.