Princeton Holds 30 Point Lead After Day 1 of #IvyHeps

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Team scores after four events: Princeton 48, Brown 18, Penn 18, Yale 16, Cornell 11, Harvard 7, Dartmouth 5, Columbia 1

Qualifiers headed into tomorrow: Cornell 13, Penn 13, Princeton 8, Dartmouth 8, Harvard 8, Brown 6, Yale 6 Columbia 5

HANOVER, N.H. (2/24/18) – The Princeton men's track & field team is off to an incredible start in the first day of competition at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Hanover, N.H. The team ended the day with two first-place finishes, a big 30-point lead over the competition, and eight qualifiers after prelims.

Senior August Kiles won his third consecutive indoor pole vault title in dramatic fashion, in a jump off with Penn's Sean Clarke. Both cleared 5.20 (17-00.75) on their first attempts and then failed to clear 5.30 (17-4.50) on their three attempts to set up a jump off. Kiles and Clarke both missed 5.30 on their first attempt, both made it over on their second and after Kiles made it over on his third attempt, Clarke could not on his third.

Senior William Paulson earned eight points for the Tigers in the only track final of Day 1, the 3,000 meters. Paulson was thisclose to taking the win from Yale's Trevor Reinhart 8:17.58 to 8:17.92.

The Tigers grabbed 14 points in the long jump with sophomore Jesse Thibodeau taking second and freshman Gilron Tsabkevich third. Thibodeau's first jump was his best at 7.31 (23-11.75), which all of his jumps over seven meters. Tsabkevich reached 7.15 (23-5.50) on his final jump to improve upon his 6.80 to leap over three other jumpers, including two from Cornell.

Senior Mitchel Charles is the shot put champion after being the runner-up the last two years. Freshman Kelton Chastulik took third as the Tigers earned 16 total points in the event. Charles and Cornell's Zach Hawley both hit 16.67 on their second attempts but Charles took over the lead with a 16.82 (55-2.25) on his fifth attempt. Chastulik's best throw was 16.66 (54-8) on his final throw, though he had two other throws 16.63 and a 16.52 that would have garnered him third place.

Senior Carrington Akosa will double in the 60 and the 200, as he ran the fastest qualifying times in both events with a 6.79 and a 21.60. Akosa is the reigning champion in the 60 and won his last two Ivy Heps indoor 200s. He was pulled out of the 200 final last year with an injury and has something to prove tomorrow. Akosa owns the schools records in both events with a 6.72 and a 21.34, respectively.

Princeton had the two best times in the mile with senior Garret O'Toole winning his heat with a 4:11.90 before senior Noah Kauppila put up a 4:16.67 to win his heat. The pair can both run close to a four-minute mile and can shave time off even more the final.

Sophomore Joey Daniels will race in the finals of the 60-meter hurdles after posting the fastest qualifying time. The 110-meter hurdle champion outdoors, Daniels clocked a new PR of 7.92 this afternoon bettering his 7.95 rom last month's Fasttrack National Invite.

In the 400, the Tigers will be represented by senior Josh Freeman. He boasted the best time, the only runner to finish under 49 seconds with a 48.60. Sophomore Connor Matthews just missed qualifying with a 49.89 for ninth place.

After a quite indoor season thus far, senior Josh Ingalls came out with a bang and qualified with a 1:04.49 in the 500. He's been a champion at this meet before, winning the 800 in 2016.

Racing in his first Ivy Heps, freshman Sam Ellis won his heat of the 800 at a:54.93, the second best time of the afternoon to advance to the final.

Tomorrow's events begin at 9 a.m., with the weight throw while the mile final kicks things off on the track at 11 a.m.

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