Official Ivy Heps XC 2019 Thread

Battle in Beantown -men's update at 3.1k (first 75 runners)

Place Name Yr Team 3.1k

1 Jake Brophy SR NAVY 9:22

2 Kieran Tuntivate SR HARV 9:23

3 Aidan Tooker SR SYR 9:23

4 Talon Hull JR WASH 9:23

5 Cameron Avery SR SBRO 9:24

10 Quinn Cooney SR DART 9:24

11 Cameron Daly SR BRWN 9:25

25 Ben Matejka JR DART 9:27

29 Owen Ritz JR DART 9:29

31 Sam Morton JR DART 9:29

43 Acer Iverson FR HARV 9:32

54 Matthew Pereira JR HARV 9:34

56 Liam Jamieson SO DART 9:35

58 Blake Evertsen SO HARV 9:36

64 David Scherrer JR BRWN 9:37

75 Dominic Morganti JR BRWN 9:40

Live Team Score at 3.1k

1. Syracuse = 59

2. Washington = 112

3. Stony Brook = 122

4. Navy = 129

5. Army West Point = 144

6. Dartmouth = 148

7. Providence = 209

8. UMass Lowell = 219

9. Georgia Tech = 232

10. Harvard = 232

11. Arkansas = 284

12. Brown = 321

13. Boston University = 376

14. Northeastern = 399

15. Penn = 405

16. New Hampshire = 414

17. Buffalo = 464

18. Vermont = 472

19. UMass Amherst = 539

20. Boston College = 545

21. Albany = 609

Thanks for the updates

Battle in Beantown -men's results at 5k (first 75 runners)

Place Name Yr Team 5k

1 Jake Brophy SR NAVY 15:21

2 Kieran Tuntivate SR HARV 15:21

3 Aidan Tooker SR SYR 15:24

4 Talon Hull JR WASH 15:26

5 Quinn Cooney SR DART 15:28

15 Cameron Daly SR BRWN 15:32

24 Matthew Pereira JR HARV 15:41

27 Ben Matejka JR DART 15:41

33 Owen Ritz JR DART 15:43

39 Acer Iverson FR HARV 15:48

43 Sam Morton JR DART 15:51

45 Blake Evertsen SO HARV 15:52

50 Anthony Russo JR PENN 15:53

51 Ryan Renken JR PENN 15:53

55 Ben Hartvigsen FR HARV 15:54

59 William Daly SR PENN 15:56

60 David Melville SO HARV 15:56

62 Colin Daly SR PENN 15:56

63 Alexander Roth JR PENN 15:57

64 Andrew Hally SR PENN 15:57

67 David Scherrer JR BRWN 15:58

Live Team Score at 5k

1. Syracuse = 56

2. Army West Point = 101

5. Dartmouth = 147

6. Harvard = 157

10. Penn = 270

13. Brown = 331

Oh, and #3 ranked Washington was 7th place (193 points) at the 5k. I'm guessing those guys are saving their energy for the final 1k...

Battle in Beantown - men's race finish line (8k) - first 75 finishers

Place Name Yr Team 8k

1 Kieran Tuntivate SR HARV 23:58

2 Jake Brophy SR NAVY 24:10

3 Talon Hull JR WASH 24:20

4 Joe Dragon JR SYR 24:24

5 Aidan Tooker SR SYR 24:26

7 Quinn Cooney SR DART 24:33

13 Cameron Daly SR BRWN 24:44

18 Matthew Pereira JR HARV 24:48

32 Owen Ritz JR DART 25:02

34 Anthony Russo JR PENN 25:04

35 Ryan Renken JR PENN 25:04

37 Ben Matejka JR DART 25:05

41 Blake Evertsen SO HARV 25:11

42 Ben Hartvigsen FR HARV 25:12

43 Liam Jamieson SO DART 25:14

46 Andrew Hally SR PENN 25:16

47 William Daly SR PENN 25:16

48 Colin Daly SR PENN 25:16

52 David Melville SO HARV 25:19

53 Alexander Roth JR PENN 25:20

59 Acer Iverson FR HARV 25:25

61 Sam Morton JR DART 25:27

71 Dominic Morganti JR BRWN 25:36

Thanks for the updates.

Was Penn tempoing? 16 second spread for their top 6.

Based on Flotrack's #16 ranking write up on Harvard they were missing potentially 3 of their top 5 in Milner, Batershill, and Collin Baker. Anyone know if these guys are healthy?

Henry Raymond and Pompilj also absent from Dartmouth's lineup.

Beantown Results wrote:

Thanks for the updates.

Was Penn tempoing? 16 second spread for their top 6.

Based on Flotrack's #16 ranking write up on Harvard they were missing potentially 3 of their top 5 in Milner, Batershill, and Collin Baker. Anyone know if these guys are healthy?

Henry Raymond and Pompilj also absent from Dartmouth's lineup.

Not sure about the other Harvard runners. Their student newspaper noted they were without Milner, but nothing about the other two. Not sure if they are injured at the moment or just waiting until their next "big" meet (I think it's Wisco) to pull out the top squad.

As for Penn, I have a feeling they were tempoing. Dolan likes to slowly buildup the teams in September so they can really bring it in October/HepsXC.

Paul Short Invitational was today. Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, and Penn sent athletes to race.

I find it odd that all of the Princeton men A-team kids were in the open race, where they essentially did a tempo run/pack run. They finished 4th thru 9th in a 4 second spread, with 2 more in 11th and 12 about 2 seconds back.

Penn men finished 2nd in the Gold race behind Utah State, while Penn women was 3rd behind Queens University and Adams State.

http://results.tfmeetpro.com/Mitchell_Timing/46_th_Lehigh_Paul_Short_Run/

Columbia was in the women's brown race.

Not surprised Princeton men all ran open... seems to be a typical Vig move... not race all out until heps where they are able to win, and then tank at nationals because they haven't been in a big race all year. Maybe he knows and just doesn't care about anything but heps. Seems like a selfish move on his part though.

ivyrunner10k wrote:

Not surprised Princeton men all ran open... seems to be a typical Vig move... not race all out until heps where they are able to win, and then tank at nationals because they haven't been in a big race all year. Maybe he knows and just doesn't care about anything but heps. Seems like a selfish move on his part though.

... and I'm guessing the Mid-Atlantic Region continues to be a pretty "weak" region, so Princeton can almost guarantee themselves a top 2 finish in order to make it to NCAA Nationals.

C/M Runner wrote:

ivyrunner10k wrote:

Not surprised Princeton men all ran open... seems to be a typical Vig move... not race all out until heps where they are able to win, and then tank at nationals because they haven't been in a big race all year. Maybe he knows and just doesn't care about anything but heps. Seems like a selfish move on his part though.

... and I'm guessing the Mid-Atlantic Region continues to be a pretty "weak" region, so Princeton can almost guarantee themselves a top 2 finish in order to make it to NCAA Nationals.

Vig's strategy does makes sense considering that Princeton can just cruise through the regular season, and still make NCAAs without any points as the Mid-Atlantic is weak, and looks like it will be this year as well. This also keeps them fresh for Heps obviously, and from what I've heard, Heps is what the rest of the Princeton staff is focused on considering it seems like every year now they have a strong chance of winning the Triple Crown (XC-Indoor-Outdoor). It is disappointing though that they don't emphasize invitationals at all now, and like the first poster said this strategy has not helped them once they get to NCAAs as you would have to say they've disappointed the last two years. The only way I see him abandoning this strategy, though, would be if they were to run poorly at regionals and not qualify for NCAAs because they did not even attempt to get any points during the regular season, but as long as the Heps titles keep coming I don't think many people at Princeton are complaining.

Could the meet champions win D2?

They continually bring in enough talent... if they redirected their focus I think they could be far more competitive nationally. Not one of their guys has been AA in years yet they have gotten incredibly impressive recruiting classes. Some of this could also be credited to rigorous academics and not training like pros like some of the NCAA. I would just like to see the team that has been cleaning up this conference compete on a national level

This weekend is a biggie in terms of NCAA Kolas points - Nuttycombe/Wisco and PreNationals.

At Wisco, Harvard (M&W), Columbia (M&W), and Princeton (M)

https://results.flotrack.org/XC-PTT.html?mid=1805

At PreNationals on Saturday, Cornell (M&W), Dartmouth (M), Yale (M&W)

http://pttiming.com/events/87931607

At Penn State National Open on Friday, Penn (M&W), Princeton (W)

https://results.flotrack.org/XC-PTT.html?mid=1806

Princeton will be hosting their season invitational on Saturday. Columbia and Penn also have this meet on their calendar too. HepsXC is at VCP this year, so it won't be serving as a course preview.

Brown will be hosting their own event on Saturday (Rothenberg Run), and Harvard is scheduled to send some athletes there too.

Cornell will be keeping some of their athletes local, as they have the Canisius Invite scheduled for Saturday.

Dartmouth women will be taking the weekend off after they competed at the New England Championships last weekend.

Looks like Nia is indeed running. Penn up to #1 in the weak Mid-Atlantic without Isabel Hebner who transferred. Looks like Hebner's identical twin Monica also transferred from Duke to UCLA?

Do they really need Nia? Can't she have a season off (or at least a low key season) since she's a potential NCAA title contender for both indoors and outdoors again?

PSU National Open - Women's race

2 mile split

1. Munks (PSU) 10:35.7

2. Fegans (GT) 10:36.3

8. Sophie Cantine (Pr) 10:56.2

11. Margaret Liebich (Pr) 11:01.5

13. Abigail Loveys (Pr) 11:03.7

18. Nia Akins (Penn) 11:08.7

19. Ariana Gardizy (Penn) 11:08.8

20. Melissa Tanaka (Penn) 11:08.9

23. Gillian Wagner (Pr) 11:09.8

27. Elizabeth Bader (Penn) 11:10.3

33. Madeleine Sumner (Pr) 11:10.9

36. India Weir (Pr) 11:11.7'

43. Katherine Devore (Penn) 11:17.3

Team:

1. Penn State, 48

2. Princeton, 81

3. Tennessee, 84

4. Georgia Tech, 88

5. Penn, 120

PSU National Open - Women's Race, finish line

1. Munks (PSU) 20:13.0

2. Cashin (unattached) 20:25.2

3. Thronson (Tenn) 20:26.0

14. Melissa Tanaka (Penn), 21:08.1

16. Margaret Liebich (Pr) 21:13.5

18. Sophie Cantine (Pr), 21:16.2

19. Nia Akins (Penn), 21:17.1

20. Abigail Loveys (Pr), 21:18.2

24. Ariana Gardizy (Penn), 21:21.5

29. Gillian Wagner (Pr) 21:29.7

33. Elizabeth Bader (Penn), 21:33.1

43. India Weir (Pr) 21:46.0

44. Madeleine Sumner (Pr) 21:48.3

52. Niamh Hayes (Penn) 21:57.8

Unofficial team scores:

1. Penn State, 31

2. Georgia Tech, 63

3. Tennessee, 92

4. Princeton, 116

5. Penn, 131

6. Temple, 181

PSU National Open - Men's race, 2 mile split

1. Sell (PSU) 9:36.7

2. Trojan (W&M) 9:36.7

3. Bumgarner (PSU) 9:36.8

27. Andrew Hally (P) 9:39.5

30. Anthony Russo (P) 9:39.9

31. Aaron Goff (P) 9:40.0

32. William Daly (P) 9:40.1

33. Alexander Roth (P) 9:40.2

Top 40 under 9:41

Team scores at 2 miles:

1. PSU 33

2. William & Mary 38

3. Georgia Tech 88

4. Temple 107

5. Penn 153

5. Buffalo 174