Clearview’s Anas Bensaoud, a freshman at Rowan College South Jersey, earned All-America honors Saturday with a 12th-place finish in the NJCAA National Championship race.
Bensaoud, the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 19 champion ran 27:16.6 over the 8,000-meter course at John Hunt Park in Huntsville, Ala. He was only 22 seconds out of 4th place in a very close group finish.
Bensaoud was a triple All-America last spring at the NJCAA track championships in Utica, N.Y. He was 3rd in the 1,500, 2nd in the 5,000 and anchored the 6th-place 4-by-8. He spent his freshman year at Stony Brook (N.Y.), where he ran one season of indoor track.
Rowan College placed 8th in the country in team scoring in the NJCAA’s Division 3 with 222 points. Harper College of Palatine, Ill., won the team title with 53 points.
Freshman Gavin Casella from Kingsway, sophomore John Schilling from Deptford, freshman Branden Lachowicz from Delsea and sophomore Charlie Hepler from Delsea also scored for RCSJ, and freshman Darius Davis from Kinsway and sophomore Derek Wylie from Gloucester County Tech also ran for the Roadrunners.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 