Princeton University Athletics
at Ivy League Heptagonal meet
February 26, 2006 | Men's Track and Field
Feb. 26, 2006
Complete Results
HANOVER, N.H. - Over the past three years the Princeton and Cornell men have traded the Ivy League Heptagonal indoor track title, and the two battled deep into the 2006 meet as well.
But just as Tigers looked like they were ready to mount a challenge, the 2005 indoor champions pulled away. With a stunning performance in the high jump, in which Cornell took third, fourth, fifth and sixth places, the Big Red took its third team title in four years.
Cornell finished the 2006 Heps with 122 points. Princeton was second with 102, followed by Penn (98) and Brown (88). Yale (66) finished ahead of Dartmouth (61) in the day's final event, the 4x400, to take sixth place. Harvard was seventh with 28 points and Columbia eighth with 24.
Princeton, the leader after the first day, put a scare into Cornell after two events late Sunday afternoon. First, the apparent winner of the 1,000 meters, Cornell's James Wyner, was disqualified for impeding another runner. That handed the title to Penn's Tim Kaijala, who finished with a time of 2:24.97, while Princeton's Kurt Kuehne moved up to third in 2:26.31.
Then, Princeton's Frank Macreery dominated the 5,000-meter run, winning the race by nearly 13 seconds to give the Tigers 10 points. But it wasn't quite enough in the end.
Princeton also had a third-place finish in the distance medley relay, and Will Byrd earned a third-place finish for the Tigers in the heptathlon, finishing with 5,007 points.
In an extremely fast 60-meter hurdle final, Dartmouth's Ikechi Ogbonna edged out Princeton's Ray Lenihan 7.93 to 7.96 seconds, setting a meet record in the process.
Cornell's performance in the high jump was indicative of its results throughout. The Big Red won just two individual events out of 19 -- Evan Whitehall in the pole vault and Rayon Taylor in the triple jump -- but the team used its superior depth to prevail. Penn's Kyle Calvo was the only two-time men's individual winner at the 2006 Heps, adding the heptathalon title to the long jump crown he won Saturday. He beat out teammate Mike Hall, 5,397 points to 5,352 points, in the hepathalon.
Penn also took two of the three relays on the day, winning the 4x400 and the 4x800. Yale was the winner in the distance medley.
In addition to Whitehall in the pole vault and Calvo in the long jump, other Saturday victors were a pair of Princeton athletes --freshman Alex Pessala in the weight throw and sophomore David Nightingale in the 3,000-meter run.
The co-Athletes of the Meet at Heps 2005 shined again Sunday in the individual track events. Penn junior Courtney Jaworski set a new indoor Heps record with a 4:04.34 mile, and Columbia's Erison Hurtault matched his winning performance and time in the 400 meters, with a meet-record 47.07 seconds.
Brown took fourth place in the overall standings with two track victories of its own. Dallas Dissmore cruised to victory in the 500-meter run at 1:02.55, and Paul Raymond took the 60-meter dash in a photo finish over Jordan Lester of Cornell. Raymond finished in a time of 6.85 seconds.
The Bears were also strong in the field events. High jumper Ray Bobrownicki won for the third straight year -- a feat matched by only two other high jumpers in Heps indoor history -- and teammate Jake Golenor took the title in the shot put at 55-00.25 feet.