Wabash finished second at the always competitive North Coast Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday in Gambier, Ohio.
 
The Little Giants scored 55 points, trailing champion Allegheny's 42 points. Oberlin placed third (75 points), with Ohio Wesleyan (102), DePauw (132), Denison (163) and Wooster (163), Kenyon (193), and Wittenberg (259) rounding out the nine-team event.
 
All five Wabash scorers earned All-NCAC honors with top-21 finishes. Senior Fabian House placed third in the 107-man field, finishing in 25:20.0 behind individual champion Geno Arthur from Oberlin (25:00.7) and Allegheny senior Logan Steiner (25:08.8). Colin Rinne joined House as a First Team All-NCAC runner by finishing fifth with a time of 25:27.8 to eclipse his best time of the season by five seconds. Adam Togami finished eighth to earn Second Team All-NCAC honors with his time of 25:47.1. Dominic Patacsil and Cordell Lewis completed the scoring for the Little Giants will also earning spots on the Honorable Mention All-NCAC team. Patacsil placed 19th (26:12.4) while Lewis finished a second behind in 20th (26:13.5).
 
"We ran pretty solid," Wabash head coach Colin Young said. "Fabian had a strong finish right behind two All-Americans, and Colin Rinne really stepped up to be our second guy. Adam also ran solid with his eighth-place finish. Our fourth and fifth runners worked well together but we wanted them to be a little bit farther up than they were.
 
Luke Doughty finished 28th overall with a time of 26:47.1. Murphy Sheets crossed the finish line in 27:01.7 to capture 36th place. Jared Santana added a 41st place finish (27:27.6), while Aaron Tincher posted a time of 27:48.8 to finish 51st. Andrew Brake placed 56th (28:00.2). Free Kashon added a 63rd-place finish (28:12.9), while Jonah Woods crossed in 87th place (29:07.1).
 
Mason McKinney, a First Team All-NCAC performer last season, was unable to compete for Wabash due to an illness.
 
"We missed Mason," Young said. "He might have made the difference but that's just how it is sometimes when you have somebody hurt or sick. Allegheny ran well and they deserve the victory. Now we will continue to train hard and get ready for regionals."
 
Wabash had won the last two NCAC titles in addition to racing to the top spot in 2011. The Little Giants won NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional crowns in 2013 and 2014 and will compete in the 2015 national qualifier Saturday, November 14 at the LaVern Gibson Champion Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The men's race will begin at 12:30 p.m.