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Princeton freshman Tory Worthen managed a number of things in one fell swoop at the ECAC Championships at the Reggie Lewis Track & Field Center in Boston, Mass., today. She became a champion in her Easterns debut by clearing the bar at 13-5 3/4 in the pole vault. And that mark was not just a meet record, it was the highest indoor clearance ever in the Ivy League, a half-inch higher than Yale’s Molly Lederman achieved at Indoor Heps in 2006. Early this season Worthen had joined Lederman as just the second Leaguer over the 13-foot barrier indoor.

Worthen wasn’t the lone Ivy champion from Easterns this weekend as the Harvard men’s distance medley relay won the IC4A title at the Boston University Track & Tennis Center, finishing in 9:44.18. We presume that that team consisted of the same foursome that qualified for the final on Saturday, but the lineups were not posted on the results. Saturday’s runners were freshmen Jeremy Gilmour and Jeff Homer followed by juniors Brian Hill and Dan Chenoweth.

Penn senior Jamie Massarelli won the 500-meter championship in 1:12.68 ahead of second-place finisher Claudia Duncan of Yale. Massarelli also moved into second-place on Penn’s all-time event list, behind only Jesse Carlin. And it was Carlin who was Penn’s last ECAC champ, winning the same event in 2006.

Along with the three champions, Duncan was one of four Leaguers to post runner-up finishes on Sunday. Cornell sophomore Chase Aaronson was second in the 55-meter dash (6.35), beating Heps sprint champion Connor Reilly of Dartmouth in the final. Another Big Red standout — rookie mid-distance star Nick Wade — was second in the 800-meter run (1:50.68). Yale junior Kate Grace was also second in the 800, finishing behind Temple’s Victoria Gocht in 2:08.72.

Full results for the two Eastern Championships: Men | Women

UPDATE: In all the excitement of Columbia’s Kyle Merber breaking the four-minute mile on Friday at the New York Armory, we didn’t immediately recognize that Harvard’s Brian Hill had a brilliant performance in the 800-meter run. The junior from Oradell, N.J., became just the second Crimson runner to ever break 1:50, finishing with a time of 1:49.96. That was just 7/100ths of a second shy of the school record set by Brad Bunney in 1984. Hill’s time was an NCAA Provisional mark and about a second from the Championships’ automatic qualifier. Thanks to Mary Boggs for keeping me honest on this one!