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Men Claim Two Titles After Day 1 at Heps
March 01, 2009 | Men's Track and Field
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (2/28/09) ? The Princeton men's track and field team earned two titles after day one at the Indoor Heptagonal at Harvard University and currently sits in second place.
Senior Alex Pessala won the weight throw for the third time and his sixth title total with a throw 69' 1.5” His toss is the second-best mark in Heps history, behind Dartmouth's Ed Kania who tossed 70' 5” in 1979, and was his personal best. Sophomore Craig Pearce placed third with a throw of 60' 8” and junior Joel Karacozoff was sixth at 57' 5” In all Princeton earned 17 points in the event.
Freshman David Slovenski cleared 17' 3.5” in the pole vault to take the Ivy League title. His clearance set a meet record and matched the all-time conference mark set by Penn's Tom Blair in 1972. It was also a Princeton program record. Slovenski went on to miss three tries at 17' 7”. Junior Chad Faulkner was fourth at 16' 4.75” and freshman Derek Hynes was sixth at 15' 3”. The three athletes, surrendered 14.5 points in the event.
Qualifying for Sunday's mile is senior Michael Maag and freshman Max Kaulbach. Freshman Trevor Van Ackeren and sophomore Kyle Soloff will both take on the 1,000-meter run. Senior Ian Thomson will run in Sunday's 400 meter final and sophomore Mike Eddy and freshman Ricky Kearney will race in the 500 meter.
Freshman Kashif Smith and sophomore Meko McCray will run the 60-meter dash, while senior Chris Vasich qualified for the 60-meter hurdles. Vasich, Eddy, Kearney, Kaulbach, Soloff and Van Ackeren all had personal bests in their respective events.
Freshman Brian Leung gave the Tigers a point in the 3,000-meter run, clocking in at 8:27.06 for sixth place.
Senior Duane Hynes is in first place after four events of the heptathlon, but could struggle tomorrow competing with a serious foot injury.
After day one, Cornell is in the lead with 43.5 points followed by Princeton with 32.5 points. Harvard has 18, Columbia and Penn each have 10, Dartmouth and Yale each have four and Brown has 2.