POMONA, NJ – Junior Tauqeer Qazi became the first Rutgers-Newark runner to earn all-conference honors as the Scarlet Raiders placed sixth among seven teams in the New Jersey Athletic Conference Cross Country Championship on the campus of Richard Stockton. 

2009 NJAC Men's Cross Country Championship Results
2009 All-NJAC Men's Cross Country Team

Qazi made the All-NJAC second team by finishing 13th with a time of 27:43.74 on the 8-kilometer course to become the first Scarlet Raider to make the squad in the three-year history of the cross country program.

Junior DaQuan Bashir finished 25th in 28:44.10 and senior Robert Ezewuiro ran a personal-best time of 29:07.64 to finish third among Scarlet Raiders runners and 35th overall in the field of 82.


Rounding out the scoring for Rutgers-Newark were freshman Mohamed Gadalla (49th, 30:07.10) and sophomore Rolland Ying (50th, 30:10.95).

Rutgers-Newark now has two weeks to prepare for the NCAA Regional Championship.