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Tigers Have Several Strong Performances in Close PSU-UConn Tri-Meet
February 04, 2006 | Men's Track and Field
Feb. 4, 2006
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Princeton men's track team had four event winners Saturday and finished with 107 points in an extremely close tri-meet with Penn State and Connecticut at PSU's Horace Ashenfelter Indoor Track.
Host Penn State won the scored meet with 131 points, while UConn had 121.
Highlighting Tiger performances on the day was another strong indoor finish for David Nightingale, who won the mile in a meet-record time of 4:05.96, just shy of an NCAA provisional qualifying time. His teammates, Michael Maag and Ben Stern, made it a 1-2-3 Princeton finish in that event.
In the 60-meter hurdles, Ray Lenihan qualified second behind UConn's Basil Campbell in the preliminaries in 8.10 but then exploded in the final, running eight seconds flat to win the event.
Derek Davis was Princeton's star in the field events on Saturday, taking the long jump event. His best leap was 6.88 meters (22 feet, 7 inches), while the Tigers also finished third in that event when Matt Brock jumped 22 feet, 3 inches).
Eric Beights joined Nightingale in winning a distance event for the Tigers. Beights took the 3,000 meters in style in 8:27.99, nearly two seconds better than Chris Nirschel of Penn State. The Tigers also got a strong second-place performance in the 400 meters from Rich Stewart, whose time of 48.82 over the two laps was just .07 behind the winning time of UConn's Edwin Campbell.