Complete Results
Heptathlon Results

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Big Red men won a competitive, scored team competition yesterday in Barton Hall at the Upstate Challenge, highlighted by 22 IC4A qualifying performances, 5 event wins, 5 all-time top-10 performances, 2 freshman records, and a new school record (and new Nigerian national record) in the shot put by Stephen Mozia at 67'4"!!!  Mozia currently leads the NCAA in the event as he set the new Barton Hall record as well.
 
Division I Team Scores: Cornell 174.50, Buffalo 87, Syracuse 79, Binghamton 78.50, Albany 62, Colgate 10 (Cortland and Ithaca College also competed in the meet.)
 
(IC4A) denotes an IC4A-qualifying performance.

Junior Stephen Mozia stole the show in front of a boisterous crowd with a new school record in winning the shot put at 67'4" (IC4A), a new NCAA-leading performance.  Sophomore Praduman Singh was 7^th in 49'7.  In the weight throw, sophomore Bryan Rhodes was runner-up with a fine 64'2.5" (IC4A) heave, followed by Mozia's 62'9.5" (IC4A) for third, #8 all-time at Cornell.  Freshman Martin Murillo also scored, turning in a 51'4.5" performance in 6^th place.
 
Grant Sisserson tied his own freshman record in winning the pole vault at 16'4.75" (#5 all-time, IC4A) for the 2^nd consecutive week.  Senior David Kim was tied for 5^th in the pole vault at 15'3" and barely missing at higher heights.

In the long jump, senior Steven Bell placed 3^rd at 24'0.75" (IC4A), followed by Montez Blair (senior, 7^th, 22'11") and John Enkler (freshman, 9^th, 21'8.75"). Senior Dan Scott (49'0.25", IC4A) was runner-up in the triple jump in a sweep of 2^nd-8^th places, leading senior Steven Bell (46'11.5"), Bryant Stuttle (freshman, 46'6"), John Enkler (46'4"), Zinzan Fern (junior, 46'3.5"), Weston Northrop (freshman, 45'11.75"), and Tobi Attah (freshman, 45'4.25").  

Senior Montez Blair won the high jump (7'1.75", IC4A) as sophomore Stephen Afadapa also returned to the 7-foot club at 7'0.25" (IC4A) in 4^th place.  Tommy Butler (senior, 6'10.25", IC4A) was 5^th and freshman Jozef Mankovecky was 6th at 6'8.25" (IC4A).  Montez is currently ranked #8 in the NCAA.

Senior Bruno Hortelano-Roig had another banner day, leading the 60 meter prelims in 6.87 (IC4A) before rocketing to 21.40 (IC4A) in the 200, winning the event and moving to #10 in the NCAA.  Also sprinting sensationally was senior Chris Bain, running 6.96 (IC4A) in the 60 prelims before finishing 2^nd both in the 60 finals at 6.86 and in the 200 at 22.26 (IC4A, #8 all-time at Cornell).  Sophomore Larry Gibson placed 4^th in the 200 at 22.52 (IC4A) as senior Justin McCollin was 7^th in 22.85 after finishing 6^th in the 60 finals at 6.99.

In the 60 hurdles, sophomore Max Hairston ran 8.18 (IC4A) in the prelims.  Closely behind were freshmen Wynn Curtis (8.46) and Richard Zidani in 10^th at 8.70.  In the finals, Hairston placed 3^rd in 8.12 and Curtis was 8^th in 8.45.

A sweet 1-2-3 Cornell sweep at 400 was blazed by freshman Tobi Attah (49.80, IC4A), Larry Gibson (50.04) and junior Cisco Olloqui (50.33).  In the 500, Wynn Curtis placed 4^th (1:06.16, IC4A), junior Zach Flood 8^th (1:06.88), and freshman Cam Hebert 9^th (1:07.28).

Senior Eric Bice ran an aggressive 800, going out in 55 seconds to run 1:54.12 (IC4A), placing 2^nd in the event by only .01 seconds.  In hot pursuit were freshman James Gowans (5^th, 1:55.78, IC4A) and junior Phelan McCormack (6^th, 1:56.22).  At 1000 meters, juniors Hong Cho placed 4^th in 2:31.73 and Sam Belcher ran 2:33.34 for 6^th.  In the mile, junior Kieran Kinnare continues to improve, as he just missed the IC4A standard in the mile with a 4:18.44, 7^th place run.

In the season-opening 3k for the Big Red men, sophomore George Oliver ran an inspiring career-best race of 8:38.19 (3^rd place) in leading the pack-attack racing style displayed by the cross-country team last fall.  Sophomore Sam Baxter placed 4^th (8:39.82), freshmen roommates David Taylor (8:41.50) and Mark Tedder (8:42.36) were 6^th & 8^th, respectively, and junior David Melly was 9^th in 8:44.08.

Cornell was a close runner-up in 3:20.52 (IC4A) behind freshman Tobi Attah (51.7), junior Cisco Olloqui (49.6), sophomore Max Hairston (49.9), and a monster anchor from sophomore Larry Gibson (48.8).

Freshman Austin Jamerson placed 2^nd with 5,063 points (IC4A) to break his own freshman record (#6 all-time at Cornell).  Performances:  7.28 (60m), 23'2.5" (LJ),  36'7" (SP), 6'6" (HJ), 8.52 (60H), 12'5.5" (PV), 2:57.29 (1000).  Freshman David Karabinos was 4^th with 4,587 points and sophomore Logan Kreglow was 6^th with 4,331.

Cornell stays home for the Robert J. Kane Invitational in Barton Hall on Saturday, February 1^st before going on the road to Boston for the Valentine Inv. on February 8^th and the SPIRE Collegiate Inv. near Cleveland on February 14^th-15^th.