The Barrington High School boys cross country team opened the dual meet season on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 22, with wins over LaSalle Academy and East Providence.

Barrington captured a narrow victory over perennial powerhouse LaSalle Academy, 26-30. (Low score wins.) 

Leading the charge for the Eagles was returning standout Colby Napolitano. He finished second overall with a time of 16.42.5 — just a half-second behind LaSalle’s Matt Lewis. 

Brooks Mello, a highly-touted newcomer to the team, finished second for Barrington and fourth overall with a time of 16:59. Ryan Hurlock powered to a fifth place finish with a time of 17:10. 

Barrington sophomores Calvin Mentzer and Brady Martin finished back-to-back in seventh and eighth places; Mentzer clocked a time of 17:19 and Martin was a few steps back at 17:24. 

Eagles’ freshman standout Finn Evans finished 10th with a time of 17:42. Patrick Coen crossed the line in 12th place at 18:00, and Austin McCarty was 14th at 18:15. 

Finn Sullivan rounded out the top-20 overall finishers. He finished 20th with a time of 18:38.

Other Barrington finishers:

• 21. Eli Rome — 18:40

• 25. Noah Chapman — 18:52

• 27. Ben Valdez — 19:10

• 29. Wes Jones — 19:14

• 32. Truman Lefort — 19:35

• 34. George Loerke — 19:41

• 36. Sid Hariharan — 19:41.8

• 37. David Stewart — 19:46

• 38. James Griffin — 19:50

• 39. Teddy Pickford — 19:58

• 40. Brady Duenow — 19:59

• 45. Ryan Anderson — 20:09

• 46. James Griffin — 20:19

• 47. Ben Lesser — 20:24

• 48. Hugh Adams — 20:25

• 49. Ryan Zalusky — 20:30

• 51. Julien LeBlanc — 20:39

• 54. Luka McFadden — 20:43

• 59. Oliver Rosow — 21:21

• 60. Elijah Robbins — 21:22

• 61. William Anderson — 21:26

• 71. Gianmarco Giradello — 22:47

• 79. Andrew Geiser — 23:34

• 82. Danny Gildea — 23:47

• 83. Jackson Gill — 23:48

• 85. Kyle Mohlman — 23:57

• 86. David Lesser — 24:17

• 88. Arjun Bansal — 25:19

• 94. Amir Riahi — 36:09