Kane Invitational Results
Men's Pentathlon
Women's Pentathlon
Men's Heptathlon
ITHACA, N.Y. -- It was a busy and productive weekend for the Cornell men's track team, as the Big Red hosted the 24-team Kane Invitational in Barton Hall on Friday and Saturday, an event that featured over 50 multi-eventers and 1300 athletes overall. In addition, a contingent of men's middle distance and distance runners competed at the Armory's "College Saturday" series on Saturday evening. The weekend was a success, as the men produced 22 IC4A qualifiers, an NCAA provisional qualifier, a new school and freshman record and seven alterations to the all-time top 10 lists.
The field events were a real highlight for Cornell throughout the Kane Invitational. In the horizontal jumps, senior co-captain
Duane Teixeira was outstanding. He won the long jump with the #2 performance in school history, eclipsing the NCAA provisional standard with a leap of 24-11. His performance ranks only behind legendary Olympic silver medalist Meredith Flash Gourdine '52 in Cornell's history. Teixeira was second in the triple jump at 49-10, an IC4A qualifier, finishing behind another Cornell great, 2008 NCAA champion Muhammad Halim '08, who returned to Barton Hall with a fantastic 54-3 3/4, easily a USATF indoor national qualifier. Also in the long jump, junior
Enbani Moore qualified for the IC4As with a third-place 23-2 3/4 and in the triple jump, senior
Gary Jones was third with an IC4A-qualifying 49-5 3/4;
Aaron Gadson '09 also returned to Ithaca and placed fourth with a mark of 48-8 3/4. In the throwing events, sophomore
Bob Belden continued his outstanding season with a big win in the shot put, reaching 55-10 1/2, the #6 performance in school history. He came back to get third in the weight throw at 57-4 3/4 while senior
Damian Silverstrim was fourth at 56-8 3/4, also an IC4A qualifier.
Erik Roneker '09 placed second in the shot at 53-1 and second in the weight at 57-5 3/4. In the vertical jumping events, the Big Red also had some breakthrough performances. Sophomore
Chris Arlinghaus clared 6-9 1/2 to win the high jump and claim ninth best in school history while earning a spot at the IC4As; freshman
Jourdan White had a seasonal best 6-6 1/2 to get second. And in the pole vault, seniors Rick Zamora and
Jason Inzana cleared 15-9 as they placed first and third in bettering the IC4A mark yet again. The men saw action beginning on Friday night with day one of a heptathlon that had 25 athletes. Junior Alex Holcome prevailed in the grueling two-day competition, winning with a total of 4,872; finishing a close second was senior co-captain Josh Kirkpatrick who also qualified for the IC4As with the #6 performance in school history - 4,863 points.
On the track in Barton Hall, the freshman duo of
Bruno Hortelano-Roig (1st, 6.92) and
Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom (2nd, 6.93) continued to run very well in the 60 and sophomore Chase Aronson ran 6.97 for third (and reached #8 all-time in school history) as all three dipped under the IC4A standard. Junior
Brian Freitas won the 500 in an IC4A-qualifying 1:04.30; sophomore
Cody Boyd was second in 1:06.49 and in the 1000, junior
Aaron Anderson was first in an IC4A-qualifying 2:29.76 with junior Tommy Roy (2nd, 2:30.37) and freshman Will McFall (3rd, 2:30.82) close behind. Sophomore Danny Hagberg won the 60 hurdles at 8.28, while freshman
Ben Moody was second in 8.49. In the longer sprints, junior Rick Semenick won the 200 in 23.09 and sophomore Dan Thomas was second in the 400 at 50.65. The 4X400 placed first in 3:28.02 and senior
Brad Bogdan (2nd, 14:49.84) led two other Cornellians (senior
Joel Frost-Tift, 14:55.22 and junior Drew Hart, 14:56.94) under 15:00 in the 5K.
In New York City on Saturday night,
Nick Wade set a new school and freshman record in the 800, running a fantastic 1:49.81 to place third. In the mile, senior
Charlie Hatch reached #6 all-time at Cornell with an impressive runner-up 4:05.75 clocking; classmate
Owen Kimple also bettered the IC4A standard with a 4:14.01 for 13th. In the 5K, junior Nate Edelman cruised to victory in an IC4A-qualifying 14:29.36 while senior
Dale Taylor was third at 14:51.58. And in the 3K, junior
Adrien Dannemiller qualified for the IC4As with a third-place 8:18.47 while freshman
Kevin Johnson was 8th in 8:29.36.
Complete results of the Kane Invitational can be found at:
Complete results from the Armory are at:
Next up for Cornell is the Marc Deneault Invitational in Barton Hall on Saturday, February 20. After that it is on the indoor Heps at Dartmouth on February 27-28 and the Indoor ECAC/IC4A Championships in Boston on March 6-7.
