Results
Video Highlights
200 Hollimon wins
400M Hurdles Zozokos takes 2nd
1500 Maag wins
5000 Maag wins
PHILADELPHIA (5/10/09) ? The Princeton men's track
and field team finished second at the Ivy League Heptagonal on Sunday, May 10
at Franklin Field.
Cornell won the championship with 165 points, with Princeton collecting 138 points. Coming in third was Penn
with 76, followed by Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard,
Yale and Columbia.
Junior Eric Plummer started the day with a victory in the
shot put, the second time he has won the event in his career. Plummer threw
17.60 meters, 0.20 meters further than the second-place competitor from Brown.
Sophomore George Abyad and freshman Patrick Park added three more points to the
team total taking fifth and sixth place.
After going nearly two decades without such an occurance,
there have been doublers in the 1,500- and 5,000-meter runs in two of the last
three years with senior Michael Maag turning the trick this year. Maag claimed
the 5,000 in 14:26.22 just after winning the 1,500 with a time of 3:49.02.
Austin Hollimon pulled off his debut victory in the
200-meter dash finishing the race in 21.28. Hollimon nearly pulled off a second
victory, in the 400-meter, but teammate sophomore Mike Eddy turned on the jets
and cruised past the finished line first at 46.92. Eddy is the first Tiger to
win the event since John Mack in 1999.
Princeton earned 16 points
in the hurdles with its representatives each taking second place. Senior Chris
Vasich took second in the 110-meter hurdles clocking in at 14.43, while junior
Tom Zozokos was second in the 400-meter hurdles at 52.66.
Freshman Trevor VanAckeren earned a third-place finish in
the steeplechase with a time of 9:11.30, while teammate Bryan Sharkey was fifth
at 9:14.54.
Junior Ian Fox took fourth in the high jump, reaching 2.04
meters, which gave Princeton four points.
In the relays, the Tigers posted a winning time of 3:10.66
in the 4x400, while the 4x100 finished sixth at 42.06.
Senior Steve Slovenski finished the decathlon with
5,869 points to take sixth in the event.
Princeton will host the
IC4A Championship next weekend at Weaver Stadium.
