Meet Results

PRINCETON, N.J. – One week after coming up just short in the Ivy League, the Cornell men's track and field team rebounded with a victory at the same venue but on an even bigger stage.
 
The Big Red scored 68 points at the IC4A Outdoor Championship on Ivy League-rival Princeton's home turf, claiming the team title by 12 points over second-place BYU.
 
Cornell got 18 points – including a win in the shot put – from sophomore Stephen Mozia, and the team also got an event victory and a new school record in the javelin from sophomore Robert Robbins. Steven Bell claimed Cornell's first of three event wins of the weekend in the long jump on Saturday.
 
Cornell last won the IC4A Outdoor meet in 1951 with a team that went on to place second in the NCAA Championships. The last Ivy League team to win the IC4As outdoors was Princeton in 1982. The Big Red finished the Outdoor IC4As in second place last year after winning the Indoor Championships, and the team was second at the Indoor IC4As earlier this season.
 
Mozia hurled the shot 59' – just four feet shy of his own school record – on his final throw of the day to seal the title, though he would have won anyway with his earlier throw of 57' 5 1/2”. Mozia preceded that Sunday effort with a second-place discus throw on Saturday. He launched the disc 189' 1” on his second throw of the afternoon, and that mark was not surpassed until the last throw of the afternoon. Still, Mozia's 18 points put the Big Red in a strong position entering the final day of competition.
 
Robbins had his own outstanding moment on Sunday, helping to move the Big Red men into second place in the team standings with a launch of 233' 4” on his last throw of the afternoon to win the javelin. Before that throw, his longest toss would have put him in second place. But instead, the sophomore transfer broke a 10-year-old school record (Scott Benowicz) by 10 inches.
 
Also in the field on Sunday, Cornell picked up a gigantic 11 points with the combined efforts of Montez Blair and Tommy Butler. Blair got over 7' 1 1/2” for third place and six points, while Butler cleared 6' 10 1/4” to take fourth place and five points.
 
With that effort early in the day Sunday, Cornell continued to creep up the standings on the track. Junior Bruno Hortelano-Roig scored three points for the team with a sixth-place 100-meter dash (11.33 seconds), and he tallied another three points by placing sixth in the 200 (21.33 seconds).
 
Andre Anderson scored a big six points in the 400 hurdles with a third-place showing in a personal-best 52.56 seconds. That scoring moved the Big Red ahead of BYU for good.
 
And with a fourth-place showing in the 4x800 in the second-to-last event of the day, the Big Red went ahead by 12 points to clinch the victory. Freshman Matt Crawford, senior Elliott Rosenberg, sophomore Hong Cho and junior Eric Bice were a part of that team that crossed the finish line in 7:36.27.
 
The Big Red scored its first points of the weekend on Saturday when Bell had a breakthrough in the long jump to claim first place. Bell had six attempts on the afternoon, and each of his four good jumps was better than the previous. He went from 23 1/4” on his first jump to the winning total of 24' 7” on his final attempt. His second-best jump of the day would have put him in seventh.
 
Besides bell, the Big Red got two more points in the long jump from Hercules Stancil. With a distance of 23' 7 1/2” on his third attempt, Stancil stayed in the scoring for almost all of the afternoon.
 
With the IC4As now behind it, the Big Red men will next compete on May 23 at the NCAA East Regionals in Greensboro, N.C. The accepted athletes for that event will be announced Thursday at 1 p.m. The NCAA will bring the top 48 declared athletes in the East Region in each event except the relays, the decathlon and heptathlon to Greensboro. The top 24 declared relay teams in the East Region will go to Greensboro.

The top 24 declared athletes in the entire country in the decathlon and heptathlon will go straight to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., on June 5-8.