The freshmen once again raked in the first-place finishes. John Cinelli won the 1000-meter, Kobie Fuller won the 400-meter and David Grimm won the 35-pound weight.

And co-captain Joe Ciollo broke his own school record in a losing cause. Ciollo, whose previous best in the 500-meter was 1:03.73, ran 1:03.23 but finished behind Brown's Trinity Gray, who Ciollo described as the "best 500-meter and 800-meter runner in the country."

"He ran 1:02.14, the top time in the nation this year," Ciollo said. "I ran hard and am not at all disappointed with the results. I knew that my only chance of winning the race was to hang on him and kick it at the end, but he never relaxed his pace."

The Crimson men also showed their depth by winning both the mile and two-mile relays. Sophomore Jamil Shamasdin, Fuller, freshman Richie Powell and Ciollo made up the 4x400 meter team.

Junior Lawrence Ho, co-captain Doug Lin, Cinelli and junior Dominic Patillo ran the winning 4x800 meter race.

The men also had an athlete come back from an injury, as sophomore Ed Baker placed second in the 3000-meter despite a knee problem.

Patillo finished second in the 800 with a personal-best indoor time, and sophomore Tarek Hamid finished second in the weight with a throw more than a meter better than his previous personal best.

"Around the middle of the meet, we started to pile up points in 35-pound weight and 3000, and that pretty much put the meet out of hand," Ciollo said. "We had it won before the relays."

Ciollo said that Cornell and Brown presented Harvard's best competition to date.

"We definitely stepped up our own performance," he said. "The team is progressing very well and looks to be peaking at the right time.

"But it's hard to get excited about Brown-Cornell. At Princeton-Yale in two weeks, blood will be spilled. That's what we live for."