No matter how big of a lead it seems when you get to the final leg of the DMR, the anchors will slow it down to allow all of the other teams to regroup. That’s what happened in the men’s DMR today as Penn gave the baton to Thomas Awad with the slight edge over Cornell and Princeton. Ben Rainero and Noah Kauppila were running anchors for their respective teams. All of the teams in the race regrouped within the first 100m. The group stayed together until the final few laps when Yale’s James Randon began to push the pace. On the final lap, Randon had the lead and pulled away from the field but Awad managed to hold on and nip him at the line to help Penn defend their DMR title from last year. Cornell finished ahead of Princeton – 3rd and 4th respectively – to help narrow the team score gap.
Men's DMR Finals 1 Penn 10:00.58@ 10 1) Tuck, Nick JR 2) Buser, James SO 3) Hatler, Chris JR 4) Awad, Thomas SR 2 Yale 10:00.67@ 8 1) Ivankovic, Andre JR 2) Peebles, Torren JR 3) Chisholm, Matt SO 4) Randon, James JR 3 Cornell 10:01.12@ 6 1) Taylor, David JR 2) Cooper, Stanford SO 3) Crawford, Matt SR 4) Rainero, Ben SR 4 Princeton 10:03.00@ 4 1) O'Toole, Garrett SO 2) Switzer, Bryant JR 3) Rossettie, Stephen JR 4) Kauppila, Noah SO 5 Dartmouth 10:03.51@ 2 1) Heninger, Julian JR 2) Johnson, Parker FR 3) Gorman, Tim JR 4) Gregory, Patrick SO 6 Columbia 10:06.35@ 1 1) Violone, Marc SR 2) Sowah, Johanan JR 3) Click, Taylor SR 4) Wilson, Dustin SR
Brown got another event winner in the last 20 minutes as Brown’s O’Sha Williams won her first Heps title in the triple jump. Williams’ distance is the 7th best in meet history, 5th best in conference history, and a new PR. Harvard rookie Gabrielle Thomas did not score in the event, but still ended the day with 3 event wins.
Women Triple Jump Finals 1 Williams, O'Sha SR Brown 12.95m@ 42-06.00 10 12.15m 12.37m 12.63m 12.83m 12.95m 12.82m 2 Williams, Anna JR Columbia 12.51m@ 41-00.50 8 12.26m 12.51m 12.30m 12.27m 12.36m 12.40m 3 Davidson, Kerri FR Princeton 12.22m@ 40-01.25 6 11.61m 11.74m 11.88m FOUL FOUL 12.22m 4 Shapiro, Molly SR Dartmouth 12.11m@ 39-08.75 4 11.78m 11.52m 11.33m 12.11m 11.76m 11.72m 5 Sonaike, Adefunke SR Columbia 12.08m@ 39-07.75 2 11.50m 11.62m 11.99m 12.08m 12.01m 12.04m 6 Hambolu, Bola FR Harvard 11.94m@ 39-02.25 1 11.20m 11.93m 11.67m 11.04m 11.94m 11.62m
In the women’s DMR, Schmeide gave Yale the early lead at the end of the 1200m leg but a powerful 400m leg by Harvard’s Jackie Modesett gave Harvard a good 10m cushion going into the 800m leg. The lead grew to 5 seconds by the time Courtney Smith got the baton for Harvard. Penn’s Ashley Montgomery and Princeton’s Brighie Leach were even at the final exchange. Smith extended the lead and went on to win unchallenged. The winning time was 11:30.85 – new meet record.
Women's DMR Finals 1 Harvard 11:30.85M 10 1) Kouba, Paige SR 2) Modesett, Jackie JR 3) Gallagher, Kieran SR 4) Smith, Courtney SO 2 Penn 11:36.62B 8 1) Hong, Abby SO 2) Hlatky, Rachel SR 3) Celata, Carey JR 4) Montgomery, Ashley JR 3 Princeton 11:37.22B 6 1) Sims, Zoe JR 2) Baron, Madelyn SO 3) Berardo, Jackie FR 4) Leach, Brighie FR 4 Cornell 11:49.54@ 4 1) Holl, Sarah SR 2) Welzer, Christina FR 3) Nolan, Libby JR 4) Katzman, Jackie SO 5 Yale 11:51.31@ 2 1) Rizzo, Meredith JR 2) Logan, Katerra JR 3) McDonnell, Shannon SR 4) Schmiede, Frances JR 6 Columbia 11:51.91@ 1 1) Rustami, Henna SO 2) Sup, McKenzie SO 3) Murray, Jillian FR 4) Tanner, Natalie JR
================================================================================ Women - Team Rankings - 18 Events Scored ================================================================================ 1) Harvard 126.50 2) Cornell 111.50 3) Dartmouth 93 4) Princeton 67 5) Brown 55.50 6) Penn 45.50 7) Columbia 43 8) Yale 16
Cornell will be getting help from Austin Jamerson in the heptathlon. With one more event to go, Jamerson has over 300 points on Princeton’s Jake Scinto after the completion of the pole vault. Jamerson cleared 14-11 while Scinto only cleared 11-07 1/2. Jamerson has 4787 points to Scinto’s 4400 points. Defending champ Nico Robinson of Dartmouth is not far back in 4346 points, so a good finish in the 1,000m for Robinson could help out Cornell even more in the team scoring. But with the completion of the 1,000m – which was won by Dartmouth’s Matt Sindelar in 3:06.89 – Jamerson got the win with 5396 points over Scinto’s 5105 points.
Points 60 LJ SP HJ Day1 60H PV 1000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Jamerson, Austin 7.14 6.90m 11.80m 2.08m 8.26 4.55m 3:05.71 Cornell 22-07.75 38-08.75 6-09.75 14-11 JR Team Points: 10 5396 (833) (790) (594) (878) 3095 (917) (775) (609) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Scinto, Jake 6.99 7.22m 12.20m 2.02m 9.16 3.55m 2:55.88 Princeton 23-08.25 40-00.5 6-07.5 11-07.75 SR Team Points: 8 5105 (886) (866) (619) (822) 3193 (711) (496) (705) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Robinson, Nico 7.11 5.79m 12.50m 1.84m 8.51 4.65m 2:56.18 Dartmouth 19-00 41-00.25 6-00.5 15-03 JR Team Points: 6 5048 (844) (542) (637) (661) 2684 (858) (804) (702) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Hill, Mark 7.21 6.92m 10.92m 1.90m 8.45 3.95m 3:02.50 Harvard 22-08.5 35-10 6-02.75 12-11.5 SR Team Points: 4 4974 (809) (795) (541) (714) 2859 (872) (603) (640) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Ose, Benjamin 7.32 6.23m 9.87m 1.72m 8.71 4.65m 2:51.77 Dartmouth 20-05.25 32-04.75 5-07.75 15-03 FR Team Points: 2 4809 (772) (637) (478) (560) 2447 (811) (804) (747) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Sindelar, Matthew 7.53 6.01m 11.16m 1.96m 8.53 4.25m 3:06.89 Dartmouth 19-08.75 36-07.5 6-05 13-11.25 FR Team Points: 1 4754 (703) (589) (556) (767) 2615 (853) (688) (598)
Field events wrapped up with the men’s high jump as Princeton’s Xavier Bledsoe exceeded all pre-Heps scoring projections to win the event. He ended up with a best clearance of 6-11 3/4, battling Penn’s Mike Monroe at the end. Cornell got 10 points in the event with 3rd and 4th place.
Men's High Jump Finals 1 Bledsoe, Xavier JR Princeton 2.13m@ 6-11.75 10 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 2.07 2.10 2.13 2.16 PPP XO O XO O XO XO XXX 2 Monroe, Michael SO Penn 2.13m@ 6-11.75 8 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 2.07 2.10 2.13 2.16 PPP XO PPP O O O XXO XXX 3 Afadapa, Stephen SR Cornell 2.10m@ 6-10.75 6 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 2.07 2.10 2.13 PPP O O O XO O XXX 4 Lazarou, Myles SO Cornell 2.07m@ 6-09.50 4 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 2.07 2.10 PPP O O O O XXX 5 Pitt, Thomas SR Penn 2.04m@ 6-08.25 2 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 2.07 2.10 PPP XO XXO XO XPP XX 6 Koller, Michael SO Yale 2.01m 6-07.00 1 1.95 1.98 2.01 2.04 O O O XXX
Harvard surprised the field in the men’s 4×800 relay as they led from the first exchange and had Gabe Montague hold off strong kicks from Princeton’s Noah Kauppila and Columbia’s Rob Napolitano to win the event. With Princeton finishing 2nd in the relay and Cornell only getting 5th helped secure the team title.
Finals 1 Harvard 7:37.13@ 10 1) Aranda, Jonas SO 2) Marshall, Myles FR 3) Epps, Malik SR 4) Montague, Gabe SO 2 Princeton 7:37.27@ 8 1) Schulz, Eric SO 2) Lee, Jared SO 3) Brahm, Luke SR 4) Ingalls, Joshua SO 3 Columbia 7:37.64@ 6 1) Langstaff, Josiah FR 2) Haik, Spencer SO 3) Sauer, Alek FR 4) Napolitano, Rob JR 4 Brown 7:38.30@ 4 1) Moskowitz, Eli FR 2) Groos, Dylan FR 3) McKie, Cameron FR 4) Bermel, Christian SR 5 Cornell 7:40.72@ 2 1) Baxter, Sam SR 2) McGowen, Matt FR 3) Tedder, Mark JR 4) Gowans, James JR 6 Penn 7:42.51@ 1 1) Webb, Kirk SR 2) Mangini, Clark JR 3) Novak, Joseph FR 4) Graca, Elias FR
============================================================================= Men - Team Rankings - 19 Events Scored ============================================================================= 1) Princeton 165 2) Cornell 132 3) Dartmouth 78 4) Penn 71 5) Harvard 46 6) Brown 36 7) Columbia 31 8) Yale 30