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Men's Cross Country Wins Second Straight Heps
October 29, 2011 | Men's Cross Country
PRINCETON, N.J. (10/29/11) - It will go down in history as one of the wildest Ivy League Heptagonal Championships ever. A nor'easter hit the area starting with rain this morning, moving into hail and by the time the men's 8k race ended it was snowing. The wind was intense, blowing the precipitation sideways into the runners' eyes making it difficult to see the course, which was a mixture of mud and slush with many of the runners taking tumbles going around turns.
One of those runners taking a spill was Princeton senior Donn Cabral, the 2010 Heps champion. Cabral would finish in third place, covering the course in 24:58 flat.
Princeton would win the title with a team score of 37. A sea of orange would come across the finish line, as all five Princeton scorers finished in the top 12, to let fans know the Tigers had once again taken the title. It marks Princeton's fifth title in the last six years, and its 16th overall.
Columbia would finish 14 points back, with Dartmouth in third with 79 points, followed by Brown (91), Cornell (125), Yale (162), Harvard (184) and Penn (233).
Senior Peter Maag would be the second Tiger across the line finishing in fifth place overall at 25:10.3. Sophomore Tyler Udland was seventh at 25:10.9, sophomore Chris Bendtsen was 10th at 25:15.8 and Matt McDonald was 12th at 25:20.8, as the first freshman across the line.
The trio of Cabral, Maag and Udland earned first-team All-Ivy League honors, while Bendtsen and McDonald captured second-team honors.
Princeton, ranked ninth in the nation, will compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional in Princess Anne, Md., on Saturday, Nov. 12. The top two teams will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. The Tigers won the Regional last year.
The win marks Princeton's first Ivy League title of the 2011-12 academic year.
Princeton Finishers
3. Donn Cabral 24:58.0
5. Peter Maag 25:10.3
7. Tyler Udland 25:10.9
10. Chris Bendtsen 25:15.8
12. Matt McDonald 25:20.8
15. Alejandro Arroyo Yamin 25:26.8
22. Thomas Dialynas 25:32.4
23. Eddie Owens 25:32.8
28. Brian Leung 25:36.3
37. Jonathan Vitez 25:46.2
51. Michael Palmisano 26:02.6
67. Mike Franklin 26:25.4