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Men's Track & Field in First Place After First Day of Heps
May 08, 2011 | Men's Track and Field
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (5/7/11) - The Princeton men's track & field team is in first place with 68 points, winning three events, after the first day of the 2011 Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championship.
Here is how the rest of the day one scoring went (advancing runners in parentheses):
1. Princeton, 68 (14)
2. Harvard, 52 (2)
3. Dartmouth, 26 (4)
4. Brown, 20 (4)
5. Cornell, 17 (18)
6. Columbia, 2 (7)
7. Yale, 1 (3)
8. Penn, 0 (6)
Cornell advanced the most runners, 18, in the seven qualifying events on Saturday, but the Tigers aren't far behind with 14 and a substantial lead over the Big Red in the point total.
In the long jump, all three Tigers competing were scorers and all three set new personal records. Freshman Tom Hopkins is the new long jump champion as he reached 7.43 (24-4.50) on his fifth jump of the day, nearly a foot further than his previous best. Senior Dion Lehman was the runner up in the event with a mark of 7.40 (24-3.50) on his fourth jump. Freshman Damon McLean jumped to 7.23 (23-8.75) to finish in sixth place. In all Princeton earned 19 of 31 points in the long jump.
Senior Craig Pearce won the hammer throw. He reached 60.94 (199-11) on his second and fourth throws of the day. Pearce has helped Princeton win 11 straight hammer throw titles, dating back to 2001.
Junior Patrick Park was the runner up in the shot put. He threw to 17.03 (55-10.50) on his final throw of the day. Senior George Abyad was fifth at 16.40 (53-9.75) on his fifth throw to help the Tigers get 10 points in the event.
Juniors Derek Hynes and David Slovenski were two of three competitors that tied for second place in the pole vault. They cleared 4.80 (15-9.00) to each contribute six points to the team total. Freshman David Coneway boosted the total with a sixth-place finish of 4.65 (15-3.00)
Junior Donn Cabral won the only running event of the day, the 10,000. He clocked in at 30:22.28, more than two seconds ahead of Harvard's Dan Chenoweth. Freshman Alejandro Arroyo Yamin was third with a time of 30:32.73.
Sophomore Sebastian Steffen qualified for the 100 and 200-meter dash finals. Steffen ran 10.93 in the prelims of the 100 and had the best 200 time in the prelims at 21.59. Hopkins ran 21.63, the third best time and junior Austin Hollimon ran 21.59, the fifth best time. Princeton will have three of the eight in the finals. Cornell also qualified three, but its times rank behind Princeton's.
The top three times in the preliminaries of the 400 belong to the Orange and Black. Hollimon had the top time at 47.11, followed by Hopkins' new PR of 47.14. Senior Mike Eddy ran 47.21 for third.
Sophomore Russell Dinkins will vie for the title in the 800 tomorrow, as he posted the best time in the prelims at 1:49.76.
Princeton will have three of the final 10 in the 1500 tomorrow. Seniors Mark Amirault and Kyle Soloff qualified with times of 3:50.42 and 3:50.70. Also advancing is freshman Chris Bendtsen with a time of 3:50.77.
Sophomore Richard Sheldon and senior Adam Thayer both qualified for the final of the 110 hurdles. Sheldon had second best time of the day at 14.68, while Thayer clocked in at 14.86.
In the 400-meter hurdles, junior Nilan Schnure ran a new PR of 55.09 to qualify for the finals. He shaved 0.14 seconds off his previous best.
With 14 finals tomorrow the breakdown of competitors stands like this: Cornell 35, Princeton 28, Brown 15, Dartmouth 15, Penn 15, Columbia 13, Yale 13 and Harvard 12.