PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Cornell men returned to the site of last week's Outdoor Heps team championship for the 110th running of the IC4As. Competing at Princeton for the second weekend in a row, the Big Red men had five scoring performances, five new alterations to the all-time top 10 lists and nine Cornelliams earned All-East honors. Although several top athletes stayed home due to final exams or to rest up for the upcoming NCAA Championships, the men scored 22 points to finish 11th. Connecticut won the team championship.
The Big Red men had several outstanding performances throughout the weekend. One of the biggest highlights on Saturday came from senior Rick Zamora, who cleared 16-7 1/4 to place fourth in the pole vault and reach fourth all-time in Cornell school history. Also piling up big points for Cornell was the discus tandem of sophomore
Bob Belden and senior
Scott Jaffee. Belden continued his outstanding season with a second place 169-1, good enough for seventh all-time at Cornell; Jaffee also earned All-East for eighth in 162-0. And in the 400 heats on Saturday, senior
Marcel van Eeden was terrific in qualifying for the final, running the third best time in school history in 47.03. In perhaps the most outstanding performances of the weekend, the men's 4X400 competed great to also run the third best time in school history and crack the 3:10 barrier. Van Eeden led off in 47.7, junior
Chris Tait ran 47.5, sophomore
Brian Freitas ran 46.9 and sophomore Dan Thomas anchored in 47.6 as the quartet ran 3:09.68. They sit only behind the fabled 1967 team that 3:06.9 and the 1986 squad that ran 3:09.34. With van Eeden unable to race Saturday due to a problematic hamstring, the Big Red still were still able to put together a sixth-place showing in the final as Thomas (48.1), Tait (47.4), senior Mike Kippins (48.3) and Freitas (47.3) ran 3:11.02, good enough for #9 all-time. Cornell also had a great showing in the decathlon as sophomore
Nick Huber missed his school record by only 4 points, placing fourth with 7,015 points.
Several other Cornellians competed on the weekend: freshman
Kevin Johnson (18th, 14:34.80) in the 5K, seniors
Joel Frost-Tift (15th, 31:25.53) and
Brad Bogdan (17th, 31:29.73), freshman
Bobby Micikas (21st, 31:44.21) and sophomore
Chandler Kemp (26th, 32:20.82) in the 10K, sophomore
Chase Aaronson (19th, 10.82) and freshman
Bruno Hortelano-Roig (25th, 10.90) in the 100, freshman
Nick Wade (13th, 1:50.16) in the 800, senior Mike Kippins (27th, 54.39) in the 400 hurdles, Belden in the shot put (15th, 52-1 1/4), freshman Rob Fiedler (25th, 171-5) and senior Damien Silverstrim (27th, 168-8) in the hammer, the 4X800 (11th, 7:33.71) of freshman
Andy Arnold, freshman Will McFall, juniro Tommy Roy and freshman
David McCuiston, senior Josh Kirkpatrick and sophomore
Vince Formica in the decathlon, senior
Ola Williams in the 110 hurdles, senior
Jason Inzana in the pole vault and sophomore
Chris Arlinghaus in the high jump.
Complete results can be found at:
http://www.lancertiming.com/results/spring10/ECIC-Men.htm
In addition, you can see footage of every race at:
http://www.fauxtrack.com/
Next up for Cornell is the first round of the NCAA Championships, to be held May 27-29. For Division I schools east of the Mississippi, the first round site will be in Greensboro, N.C., on the campus of North Carolina A&T. The other site for western schools will be in Austin, Tex., on the same dates. The top 12 in each event contested at these two sites will advance the Final Round of the NCAA Championships, to be held this year in Eugene, Ore., from June 9-12. The top 48 declared athletes in each event for each region (with the exception of the multi-events) will compete at the First Round site; the NCAA will announce these competitors on Friday, May 21.
