BRUNSWICK, Maine -- First-year Krishna Kakani led a Bates sweep of the first nine individual finishes, as the reserve runners on the No. 25 nationally ranked Bobcats dominated the three-team Bowdoin Invitational on Saturday.

With Bates' top runners this season taking the week off from competition ahead of next Saturday's NESCAC Championships, the Bobcats displayed impressive depth once again, scoring a perfect 15 points ahead of second-place UMaine-Farmington (61 points) and host Bowdoin (64).

Kakani (Monroe, N.J.) covered the 8-kilometer course at Bowdoin in 26:44.9 to lead the Bobcats, 1.8 seconds ahead of runner-up junior teammate Gabe Coffey (Bangor, Maine).

First-year Calvin Capelle (Laguna Beach, Calif.) finished third (27:03.6), while first-year Andrew Mottur (Rumford, R.I.) placed fourth (27:06.3) and sophomore Timothy O'Neill (New York, N.Y.) placed fifth (27:09.2) to finish Bates' team scoring. 

Senior Max Bartley (Presque Isle, Maine) and first-year Nicholas Brown (Hopkinton, Mass.) finished sixth (27:15.5) and seventh (27:19.1) to serve as the team's displacers, while first-year Cam Stathos (Wellesley, Mass.) and sophomore Jason Nahigian (Needham, Mass.) also finished ahead of any opponent, taking eighth (27:26.1) and ninth (27:43.6) places, respectively.

Bates will send 15 runners to compete in next Saturday's NESCAC Championships, hosted by Trinity College at Wickham Park. The men's race starts at 12pm, followed by the women's race at 1pm.