Apparently there is going to be a live stream of the meet at fauxtrack.com/heps for all those who won't be able to make it out to Princeton.
Apparently there is going to be a live stream of the meet at fauxtrack.com/heps for all those who won't be able to make it out to Princeton.
IV balllin wrote:
Apparently there is going to be a live stream of the meet at fauxtrack.com/heps for all those who won't be able to make it out to Princeton.
Love the domain name. Based on the dudes running the site it should be pretty well done, though there will undoubtedly be a few glitches since this is the first ever live stream for them.
Okay, if I don't get to go to the meet, then I should run a virtual meet, right? Except for the multis, I ran the scores based *solely* on the marks that appeared in the heat sheets, not from the DA lists. As best I could tell, some of the marks were carryovers from indoors, but not all. Anyway, assuming no errors in arithmetic (a big assumption, actually--I'm pretty punchy right now), I got this:
Men
Cornell 220, Princeton 155, Penn 72, Dartmouth 62.5, Harvard 51.5, Brown 43, Yale 41, Columbia 36
Women
Cornell 146.5, Princeton 128.6, Columbia 125, Brown 102.5, Penn 82, Harvard 64.2, Yale 33, Dartmouth 30.2
I think the men's dual meet will be a lot closer than this projects, and the women's meet will go right to the end. Again, watch out for the Brown women: they're only "scheduled" for 25 points in the track events--if they get significantly more than that, they're absolutely in the team race.
Best to all. After this weekend I'll go into hibernation until the fall--no posting or lurking.
lol, I love the 0.2 points... where was the tie? The HJ?
And I wondered by Hale is not doing the 400m... perhaps they hope her teammate will win it over the Penn girl with the 54.xx time?
Also, for those who use twitter, hepstrack will be tweeting quite frequently so in case the life feed does not work out, check out twitter.com/hepstrack
Good luck to all of those competing. It's currently a cloudy day, but hopefully no rain
C/M Runner wrote:
lol, I love the 0.2 points... where was the tie? The HJ?
I think so: 13 points split five ways, and a couple of teams each had two claimants among the five.
Hale should still stay busy (four races on Sunday), even without the open 400; and I get the sense that her coaches may be looking longer-term than the Heps. Good for them, and her.
Even without Hale in the 400, Columbia has good event coverage. Based on the seed marks the Columbia women are tied with Princeton: scoring projected in 16 events of the 23. Only Cornell (20) projects more scoring events. (On the men's side, Cornell also leads in this stat: 19/22, with Princeton at 17/22. Dartmouth, Harvard, and Penn are the next closest, with projected scoring in exactly half the events.)
live stream is up at fauxtrack.com - looks great good work guys.
so far only the decathlon is going on. live stream seems pretty cool.
Clouds are dissipating here are Princeton, but there is a bit of a breeze. But hey, it's sunny and the track is drying up.
The first round of the multis are done. More events to start at noon.
Glad for the fauxtrack coverage. I could do without most of the patter, I suppose, but you get what you pay for, right?
i think the banter is great! keep up the good work
GO BIG RED!
The Princeton hammer throwing was predictable but still outstanding. Cornell men produced half the scorers in the LJ. Princeton's Duane Hynes, in his first (I believe) decathlon of the year, is breaking up the Cornell/Dartmouth multi-eventers and stands second after three events.
LJ was huge for Cornell, favorite Texeira fades to 3rd but Kirkpatrick steps up and wins the thing to cover the point spread.
Princeton - hammer was huge. 18 points to Cornell's 0.
Hynes is looking good in the multi, but then again so is Kirkpatrick.
Sets up a great day two!
live feed pretty cool. tomorrow should be awesome.
Hynes pulled his hamstring during the dec LJ today, and his performance has slightly been affected by it. His dec 400 wasin 56 and his dec HJ was only 1.79m. Hopefully he can finish the remaining five events tomorrow.
Also, the unpredictablity of the pole vault hurt Princeton. They were hoping for 1-2 at the beginning of the season, but the winds, injuries, and stepping-up of other people only gave Princeton 5th place.
anyone who didn't make finals be sure to come to cap and gown tonight.
WG wrote:
C/M Runner wrote:Also, the unpredictablity of the pole vault hurt Princeton. They were hoping for 1-2 at the beginning of the season, but the winds, injuries, and stepping-up of other people only gave Princeton 5th place.
Is Slovenski injured?
Fractured his thumb when his pole broke at Penn Relays, Chad Faulkner has stress fractures in his back as well.
Random thoughts, having seen a little of the FauxTrack coverage and scanned the results:
Brown women (currently in second) looking very good, having picked up eight unlooked-for points in the 10,000 and had the fastest qualifier in the 1500.
Princeton women hammered the 10,000, as expected, but Cornell woman ran a very well-judged race for fourth.
Cornell got a lot of qualifiers (16) through to tomorrow's women's finals, but so did Columbia (12), including a bunch of leading qualifiers.
Amazing women's long jump, with Hewitt's early leader barely holding up.
Cornell men did an efficient job of moving qualifiers (15) into tomorrow's finals. Penn impressed with the next most qualifiers, 11.
You guys know the teams better than I do. Any prognostications for tomorrow?
Will Hynes be okay in the decathlon Day 2? With the HH, PV, and DT, this would ordinarily be a pretty good day for him. I guess if there are problems, it will be obvious in the hurdles--those put a fair amount of stress on the hamstrings...
OTOH, if it comes down to the 1500, Kirkpatrick could have his work cut out. He lost the Penn Relays decathlon by 200 points, and I believe he was in (or close to) the lead after nine events.
elj wrote:
Will Hynes be okay in the decathlon Day 2? With the HH, PV, and DT, this would ordinarily be a pretty good day for him. I guess if there are problems, it will be obvious in the hurdles--those put a fair amount of stress on the hamstrings...
According to the start list, Hynes is also scheduled to do the open high jump today. If he's able to jump in that, he'll have to stay in the decathlon at least until the open HJ.
I noticed that there was "arrowhead" lane selection in all the laned races that had qualifying rounds (i.e. the top qualifiers get the middle lanes), even in the lap races up to 800. Is that standard procedure now? I've been out of the sport quite a while, so I just don't know.
Best of luck to all today. GO BIG RED!
What am I missing? The Princeton women finished the first day in the lead, and have *three* distance races coming up today. They could score 50 points or so in those races alone.
Add in their other scoring opportunities today (relays, etc.), and I have trouble seeing how PU could lose. Does anyone see another scenario?