Cruz took third place in the long jump with a personal-best 19'2" jump, nearly breaking the school record. Lynch's surprising third place in the 100 with a time of 12.62 seconds was just .4 seconds off Brown's Susan Smith (voted Outstanding Female Athlete for the meet). Griffin's 4:31.58 in the 1500 was good for fourth place in a very competitive field.
"It's good to see the young ones come through for us," Raju said.
Finishing fifth place in the meet was Brown, far behind with 79.5 points. Yale scored 35 points, followed by Army (30), Dartmouth (29) and Navy (19).
Columbia competed but failed to place, scoring a grand total of 0 points.
The picture on the men's side was much less rosy. The men scored 37 points, largely on the heroics of Co-Captain Nick Sweeney.
Sweeney won his third discus title, setting a meet record of 190'6". Sweeney, who won the discus in 1989 and 1991, also won the shot put (53"8-1/4").
Despite the low point total, Harvard coach Frank Hagerty was impressed by his team.
"The score wasn't indicative of how we did," Hagerty said. "We placed a more people in finals than we expected to. They just came up a bit short."
"Eighty or 85 percent of our team recorded seasonal bests," Hagerty said.
Other than Sweeney, the top Harvard finishers were junior Bill Doyle and freshman Bryan Henry.
Doyle's 200' hammer throw got second place, three feet short of Cornell's James Fahle's winning hurl. Henry's 1:49.29 in the 800 was just 0.2 seconds off the meet record. Henry finished second, behind Anthony Mays of Brown (1:49.29).
Pennsylvania finished in second place overall with 112.5 points, trailed by Dartmouth (94), Princeton (60), Yale (52), Army (51), Brown (50), Harvard (37) and Cornell (29).
In last place was Columbia (8 points).
Men's Final Team Standings 1. Navy 126.5 2. Penn 112.5 3. Dartmouth 94 4. Princeton 60 5. Yale 52 6. Army 51 7. Brown 50 8. Harvard 37 9. Cornell 29 10. Columbia 8
Women's Final Team Standings 1. Cornell 160 2. HARVARD 100 3. Princeton 99.5 4. Penn 99 5. Brown 79.5 6. Yale 35 7. Army 30 8. Dartmouth 29 9. Navy 19 Columbia 0