Women's Track and Field Claims Transatlantic Series Win by 15-4

Complete Results
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ITHACA, N.Y. ? The Cornell track and field teams renewed one of its most storied traditions on Saturday, hosting a match in the Transatlantic Series with Oxford and Cambridge. Teaming up with traveling partner Penn, the Big Red had its quadrennial U.S. match against its United Kingdom counterparts at the Robert J. Kane Sports Complex and came away victorious, 15-4 on the women's side and 14-5 on the men's side.
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After hosting their guests from Oxford and Cambridge and enjoying a banquet together on Friday night, the four sides met in what was a very friendly but fiercely fought meet on Saturday morning. The quality of the meet was very high, however, as seven series records were set including in five of the eight throwing events.
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The Cornell women acquitted themselves very well, accounting for 12 of the Cornell/Penn team's 15 event wins/points. In addition, the Cornell women had three of the four series records set in the women's competition, nine ECAC qualifiers and a new freshman record. Indeed, four of Cornell's event wins/points came from freshmen. And senior co-captain Victoria Imbesi claimed three event wins and a series record all by herself.
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The day got off to a very good start in the women's 3K steeplechase. With temperatures still hovering around 32 degrees, conditions were not ideal in an event that involves clearing a water jump, but freshman Claire DeVoe was not deterred, leading from the gun in winning in 10:32.51, an ECAC qualifier in only her third career attempt at the event. She also broke the school freshman record of current junior Rachel Sorna to move to No. 6 all-time at Cornell and also broke the series record held by former Cornell school record-holder Stephanie Pancoast '10. Also running well was sophomore Corey Dowe (11:04.86) and freshman Maggi Szpak (11:10.96).
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Next up in the 1500, freshman Kristen Niedrach was the top declared scorer to finish, crossing the line in third overall in 4:43.50 to earn a point for Cornell/Penn; classmate Caroline Kellner led most of the race in a very good effort to run 4:39.79 for second overall. Also running well to open their outdoor seasons were senior Alyssa O'Connor (4:42.98) and junior Dale Kinney (4:45.43).
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Another freshman scored points for Cornell in the 400 as Udeme Akpaete continued to impress, bettering the ECAC standard with a first-place finish of 55.56. Senior co-captain Libby O'Brien was second in 57.17. Cornell's other freshman event winner was Dina Iacone, who took the 5000 in 17:26.74 with a strong second half of the race. Also racing extremely well in that event was junior Lauren Lapointe, who produced a remarkable 50-second personal best to place second in a fine 17:32.03, setting a personal best at 3000 meters for good measure en route.
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Cornell got another series record on the track from junior Ebolutalese Airewele, who won the 200 into a head-wind, crossing the line in an ECAC-qualifying 24.80. And in the 400 hurdles, classmate Ryan Woolley claimed first in an ECAC qualifying 61.67. Rapidly improving sophomore Emily Woodford was second in 63.47.
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Cornell closed out the meet with an event win in the 4x400 as sophomore Elyse Wilkinson (57.8), sophomore Tess Berghoff (57.6), Akpaete (56.0) and Woolley (55.8) ran 3:47.47, an ECAC qualifier. And in the first event of the meet, an exhibition 3000, freshman Meghan McCormick placed first in 10:55.00.
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The Big Red was terrific in the field. Senior tri-captain Victoria Imbesi was seemingly everywhere, winning three of the four throwing events, qualifying for ECACs in each. She set a series record of 48' 1 3/4? to win the shot put before taking the javelin in 142' 1?. And she added the discus to her repertoire, moving to No. 5 all-time at Cornell with a mark of 152' 11?.
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Classmate Claire Dishong won the vault (which was moved indoors due to cross-winds in the morning), clearing 12' 6 1/4?, and senior Lindsey Patterson was third at 12' 2 1/2?. Sophomore Dominique Corley was the Big Red's other event winner, taking the long jump at 18' 8 1/2?, coming through with a clutch sixth jump to win. Senior co-captain Ailish Hanly took second in a good high jump competition, clearing 5' 5 1/4'.
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On the men's side, the Cornell and Penn men teamed up for a 14-5 victory, with the Big Red accounting for 12 of those event wins/points. Cornell had 13 IC4A qualifiers on the day, boasted a meet record and had a new track record as well.
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The Big Red got off to a great start in the very first event. Indeed, in his very first throw of the competition, sophomore Stephen Mozia broke Dave Doupe's series record in the shot put with a heave of 58' 2?. Mozia had a terrific day overall, taking second in the discus with an IC4A-qualifyig 176' and producing the best hammer mark of the day, 181' 2?. The event winner for points was senior Bob Fiedler, Cornell's declared thrower, who bettered the IC4A standard with a mark of 176'.
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As usual, event wins and points were plentiful for Cornell in the field. Junior co-captain Peter Roach had a seasonal best (and IC4A-qualifying) 16' 8 3/4?. Sophomore Keith Rayburn was second at 15' 9?, also over the Eastern standard. The high jump was going to be a tough event for Oxford/Cambridge as the Cornell and Penn teams boasted two All-Americans and four seven-foot high jumpers. Junior Montez Blair won the event at 7' 1/4?, and classmate Tommy Butler was also over the IC4A qualifying mark with a second-place clearance of 6' 10 1/4?. Fellow junior Steven Bell took the long jump, leaping 23' 6 1/4? into a headwind for an IC4A qualifier and placed second in the triple jump at 46' 6?.
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On the track, sophomore David Melly won the first event of the day, running 9:27.10 to take the 3000 steeplechase, as Cornell runners took the first four places. Hurdling success continued in the shorter events.
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Freshman Max Hairston moved to No. 10 all-time at Cornell with a first-place run of 14.48 while senior Zach Zeller joined him as an IC4A-qualifying 14.56. Hairston doubled back to place second in the 400 hurdles at 53.31 for second, an IC4A qualifier.
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The senior class led the way in the other track events. Bruno Hortelano-Roig looked very strong in powering to a new track record in the 400, crossing the line in 47.55, No. 7 all-time at Cornell. Freshman Larry Gibson was third in 48.72.
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In the 100, senior co-captain Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom was first in 10.79. Fellow senior Nick Wade took the 800, closing impressively to win in 1:51.78 as he joined the others as IC4A qualifiers. Sophomore Rutger Admirand closed well to run 1:53.30, a seasonal best. Senior Matt McCullough also raced very well, closing very strongly to win the 5000 in 14:43.03 as sophomore Ben Potts was second in 14:48.12. And in the exhibition 3000 that began the meet, freshman Tyler Kawalec ran 8:48.31 to place first for Cornell.
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Cornell will renew its friendly rivalry with Oxford and Cambridge next summer as the team will tour the United Kingdom with travel partner Penn in June 2014.
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Next up in the 2013 outdoor season for most of the team is the Bucknell Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.. A few members of the men's team will compete at the George Mason Invitational on Saturday, April 13. The Big Red will also host a decathlon and heptathlon on Friday and Saturday in Ithaca.

Source: http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2013/4/7/WTRACK_0407135743.aspx

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