Talkin' HEPS

pow wrote:

Cornell only down 4 points to princeton after day 1. Cornell qualified all but 1 guy to the finals. looks the like big red is set up nicely to score a lot of points tomorrow.

Looks like Owen Kimple totally knocked Princeton out of the 1000.

i guess i was wrong on that other thread. no nightengale to go for the threepeat. is he hurt?

Okay, I finally got to the blog. Lots of firsts for Cornell (men and women), but not as much backup as I'd have expected, e.g. in the vault and women's LJ. Fortunately both teams got a lot of folks through to tomorrow's finals, but I still think it'll be a tight meet right to the end.

I see that Maduka did indeed get to the meet. What a difference it makes to have her!

Why was the 3k so slow??? Anyone there know?? I expected slow but not over 8:30?

Since Maag was doubling I'm sure he was happy to keep it slow and I guess no one else had the balls to try to make it a fast race

is dartmouth running a fast dmr tomorrow?

Yes, Norton is anchoring the DMR.

I think Princeton expected to score more in the 3000 than just Maag's 10 pts. They were controlling the pace, keeping it slow and it did not work out for them when the kicking started, except for Maag.

Escareno was smart to push the pace in the first section, so he got 4 pts.

And where is Nightingale?

Cornell men go 2-4 in the mile, BP wins, Maag third. I honestly would not have believed that Miller and Hatch could go 4:07 and 4:09 on that track. An honest pace (2:01 at the half) helped.

And after eleven events, the Big Red men have a 66-point lead over Princeton. These two should outscore the rest of the conference combined, at least until the relays.

Women's meet is just as tight as predicted: Princeton 67, Cornell 62, Brown 60. With the events that are coming up, I'd have to favor PU, but it's gonna stay close.

Holy crap. According to the blog, with five events to go Cornell already has a record number of points. Going 1-3 in the 5000 (Hine-Canaday) certainly helped.

Princeton also has 100+ points. Now it looks like the two teams will outscore the rest of the conference even *with* the relays. Amazing.

A very mediocre performance by the rest of the league, including my alma mater Penn.

I might add that my team..Cornell..scored 200 plus without Wyner and without Taylor.

And congratulations to the Princeton (and Brown) women. Cornell did not have its best meet, and to beat them it would have had to.

So the Big Red's indoor/outdoor Ivy streat ends at 12. Well, they just have a chance to start another, possibly as early as the outdoor meet this spring. They deserve a lot of credit--with all the points that graduated last spring, Cornell was supposed to be very vulnerable and they ended up in the thick of things right to the end.

BRF wrote:

I honestly would not have believed that Miller and Hatch could go 4:07 and 4:09 on that track. An honest pace (2:01 at the half) helped.

That mile was a helluva race, starting out like a time trial, only slowing down a wee bit in the latter middle stages, and finishing as a fierce competition.

Word got out Saturday evening Maag was going for a meet record (4:04) from the front in Sunday's final. As the only 4:00.xx miler in the field, with LBP having been injured as late as December and maybe not 100% yet, and after a slow, untaxing mile prelim (4:20) and 3,000 final (8:31??? - come on!) that both turned into 600m races, why not make the mile final a barnburner himself, right? Only problem is, half the field was ready and willing to run 60+ pace from the gun and stayed within 1.5 seconds of the front most of the way. One other small thing ... a wire-to-wire 4:04 in Barton Hall (where the facility record is 4:05) is no easy task, even for a 4-flat guy who didn't have to run hard on Saturday.

Maag ran 4 straight 30-points right off the bat, going 60.2 at the 440 and 2:01.3 at the 880. LBP moved immediately into 2nd at the start and sat on Maag like a chair. Miller left the main group after 250 and caught the two leaders before halfway, and Hatch and Bell were still only about 1.5 and 2 seconds down at 1,100 yards (Maag 2:32.8), having clawed just to stay about 10-15 meters behind the whole time. Out of the first 5, only Bell started to lose any additional ground as the tight, unbanked track started taking its toll on Maag's ambitious early pace. Maag slowed to 32+ for the 6th and 7th 220s and Miller looked smooth as silk and ready to move, with LBP apparently digging deep to hang on with a lap to go. As Miller made his move on the last backstretch and blew by to take the pole position going into the last turn, the entire building rocked with a "C-U! C-U!" chant as the home crowd was on its feet spurring their man to an apparent win over the heavily favored Maag. But LBP was still there, close enough to use that wicked last 50 of his, and he drew even on the outside coming off the final turn and won the homestretch battle with Miller, hitting the line with his arms outstretched to grab his second mile crown in as many years.

And congrats to the Princeton men, by the way. They had one of their finest Heps and a very high point total, one that often wins.

Oh yeah--I still expect big things from Harvard very soon.

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On another note:

Interesting story in the Times (today? yesterday?) about how Harvard's new basketball coach is cheating in recruiting.

...which is to say, doing exactly what Harvard hired him for.

BRF wrote:

Oh yeah--I still expect big things from Harvard very soon.

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On another note:

Interesting story in the Times (today? yesterday?) about how Harvard's new basketball coach is cheating in recruiting.

...which is to say, doing exactly what Harvard hired him for.

Princeton is a complete joke. I do not care if the got 1st and 2nd this past weekend. They get every recruit every year. On paper, they should be so much better than everyone else. If their coaching staff were at any other Ivy, they would suck year in and yar out. They are the laughing stock of the Ivy League and known solely for gross underachievement. P-ton men have lost the last two Heps because of their middle distance and distance runners performances, despite everyone they get. Good thing the coaches have P-ton's #1 academic ranking, financial aid, and campus to cloak their true abilty.

Well Brown sucks (mens track team)