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Men's Track & Field Takes Second at Heps as it Wins Five Events on Day 2
May 10, 2010 | Men's Track and Field
PRINCETON, N.J. (5/9/10) - The Princeton men's track & field team took second in the 2010 Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships. With 152 points, the Tigers were just 36 points out of first place as Cornell won the title with 188 points.
After three events on day two and eight event totals, Princeton moved into first place in the team standings. After nine events the Tigers held a 23-point lead over the Big Red. It would be four events later that Cornell would regain the top slot with 104 points to Princeton's 95 and wouldn't relinquish the lead.
Sophomore Donn Cabral won the steeplechase at 8:54.55 the only athlete to finish in under nine minutes with a six-second margin over Cornell's Adrian Dannemiller. After winning the 10,000-meter run last night, Cabral becomes the first ever 10k/steeple double champion in Heps history and the first Tigers to win the steeplechase since Robert Quinn in 1984.
Senior Eric Plummer won his third straight shot put title with a throw of 18.30 meters (60-00.50). His throw marked the first 60-foot throw at Heps since Brown's Gerry Donini in 1986.
Senior Justin Frick won his fourth high jump championship, second outdoor, as he cleared 2.16 meters (7-01.00). The reigning indoor high jump champion, senior Ian Fox reached 2.08 meters (6-09.75) to take second place. In addition, sophomore Issac Serwanga cleared 2.00 meters (6-06.75) to finish in fifth place. In all Princeton claimed 20 points in the event.
Junior Mike Eddy won the 400-meter dash at 47.26 to earn his third individual Heps crown.
Another major event for Princeton was the discus throw, as the Tigers grabbed 18 points going 2-3-4. After freshman Conor McCullough set an American junior national record in the hammer throw yesterday, he placed second in the discus with a throw of 51.22 meters (168-00). Junior George Abyad was third with a throw of 50.55 (165-10) and senior Joel Karacozoff threw to 49.98 (164-00) for fourth place.
Junior Mark Amirault won his first individual Heps title with a victory in the 5000-meter run. He passed and held off Brown's Duriel Hardy to cruise in at 14:24.74. After Hardy took the lead on the last lap, Amirault used the final turn to kick it up a notch and ran in for the win. Amirault also earned a second-place finish in the 1500-meter run at 3:57.01.
Fellow classmate Kyle Soloff placed third in the 1500 with a time of 3:57.40, to give the Tigers 14 points in the event.
Sophomore Ivan Charbonneau, freshman Sebastian Steffen and junior Adam Thayer all scored for Princeton with fifth-place finishes in their respective events.
Charbonneau ran the 100-meter dash final in 10.95, while Steffen ran 21.93 in the final of the 200-meter dash. Thayer posted a time of 15.14 in the 110-meter hurdles.
In the relays, Princeton earned one second-place finish and two third-place finishes. The Tigers were second in the 4x400 at 3:13.42. In the 4x100 they clocked in at 41.18 and ran a 7:36.41 in the first running of the 4x800 in Heps history.
Princeton hosts the IC4A Championship May 14-16 in the final meet before the NCAA East Regional.
The official list of those competing in the NCAA East Regional will be announced by the NCAA on Monday, May 17 at 9 p.m