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Depth Propels Cornell to 2006 Men's Heps Crown
Created: 2/26/2006 10:39:33 AM
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Men's Results | Men's Day One | Women's Results | Photo Gallery
For the seniors at the 2006 Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Dartmouth's Leverone Fieldhouse, this year's results will look awfully familiar.
Over the past three years the Cornell and Princeton men have traded the title, and the two battled deep into the 2006 meet as well.
But just as Tigers looked like they were ready to mount a challenge, the 2005 indoor champions pulled away. With a stunning performance in the high jump, in which Cornell took third, fourth, fifth and sixth places, the Big Red took its third team title in four years.
Cornell finished the 2006 Heps with 122 points. Princeton was second with 102, followed by Penn (98) and Brown (88). Yale (66) finished ahead of Dartmouth (61) in the day's final event, the 4x400, to take sixth place. Harvard was seventh with 28 points and Columbia eighth with 24.
Penn junior Courtney Jaworski was named the 2006 Heps Indoor Athlete of the Meet after setting a new record in the mile, finishing second in the 800-meter run and helping his team to a first-place finish in the 4x800 relay.
Jaworski's time of 4:04.34 in the mile was one of three meet records set in men's track on Sunday.
Columbia's Erison Hurtault matched his winning performance and time in the 400 meters, with a meet-record 47.07 seconds, and Dartmouth's Ikechi Ogbonna ran 7.93 in the 60-meter hurdles.
Cornell's performance in the high jump was indicative of its results throughout. The Big Red won just two individual events out of 19 -- Evan Whitehall in the pole vault and Rayon Taylor in the triple jump -- but the team used its superior depth to prevail.
Penn's Kyle Calvo was the only two-time men's individual winner at the 2006 Heps, adding the heptathlon title to the long jump crown he won Saturday. He beat out teammate Mike Hall, 5,397 points to 5,352 points, in the heptathlon.
Penn also took two of the three relays on the day, winning the 4x400 and the aforementioned 4x800. Yale was the winner in the distance medley.
Princeton put a scare into Cornell after two events late in the afternoon. First, the apparent winner of the 1,000 meters, Cornell's James Wyner, was disqualified for impeding another runner. That handed the title to Penn's Tim Kaijala, who finished with a time of 2:24.97.
Then, Princeton's Frank Macreery dominated the 5,000-meter run, winning the race by nearly 13 seconds to give the Tigers 10 points. But it wasn't quite enough.
In the distance runs, Mike Carmody of Dartmouth ran 1:51.04 to easily outpace the field in the 800 meters, and Dallas Dissmore cruised to victory in the 500-meter run at 1:02.55. In the final track event, dissmore's teammate, Paul Raymond, took the 60-meter dash in a photo finish over Jordan Lester of Cornell. Raymond finished in a time of 6.85 seconds.
The Bears were also strong in the field events. High jumper Ray Bobrownicki won for the third straight year -- a feat matched by only two other high jumpers in Heps indoor history -- and teammate Jake Golenor took the title in the shot put at 55-00.25 feet.
In addition to Whitehall in the pole vault and Calvo in the long jump, other Saturday victors were a pair of Princeton athletes -- freshman Alex Pessala in the weight throw and sophomore David Nightingale in the 3,000-meter run.
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