"He has improved each time he's run that event this year," co-captain Joe Ciollo said. "When he's on a roll, he's pretty much unstoppable. What's even scarier is that he wasn't that satisfied with his time."

Sophomore John Kraay placed 10th in the Eastern college men's shotput, and sophomore Arthur Fergusson took sixth in the Eastern college men's triple jump.

Aside from Gyorffy's success, the most memorable part of the Penn Relays was the trip.

For those traveling down Thursday night, the train arrived five hours late because the central tracking system was "disabled multiple times," according to Ciollo.

"We saw a dead body in New Jersey, where they were pulling it off the track as we pulled out of the station," Ciollo said. "In Rhode Island, we saw a house that was completely on fire. The whole trip was pretty much a nightmare."

After the team staggered off the train, things didn't get much better. The Harvard contingent arrived at the Clarion Suites around 12:30 a.m. It went out for dinner and came back 20 minutes later to find the power out at the hotel.

Because the doors used keycards instead of keys, the team was locked out until 3:30 a.m.

Friday afternoon, the men's 4x400 team of freshmen Osahon Omoregie, sophomore Richie Powell, junior Cabral Williams, and Ciollo checked in at 3:30 for its 4:00 race. The meet was then postponed for half an hour, but it began raining harder after the races resumed.

Because the organizers were trying to run heats as quickly as possible, the athletes were lined up in their racing clothes in the paddock. With the Heptagonal heat just a couple races away, the meet was postponed again.

"We ran for cover and waited for an hour and a half," Ciollo said. "Our sweats had been lying on the track and weresoaked, and eventually all the Ivy teams but Penn,the host, left."

Yesterday, Harvard hosted Boston College in anunscored meet. It was a relaxed affair thatallowed athletes to try out different events.

Junior Darren Dinneen won the 800-meter with atime of 1:50.6. In high school, he ranked secondnationally in the event, but he battled injuriesat Harvard. Dinneen also anchored the winning4x400 relay, which he ran for the first time thisyear.

"Most of my seasons have either started late orcut short, and it's been very frustrating,"Dinneen said. "I haven't been training that long,and it'll be a couple weeks or even a month beforeI peak, but I think things are falling into placenow. I haven't started to do speed work yetbecause of ham string problems, so I think I cango quite a bit faster."

Omoregie won the 400-meter with a personal bestof 48.75.

"Because there was no 3000-meter and no800-meter, a lot of people ended up doing the1500," co-captain Margaret Schotte said. "It was anice experience to be racing with teammates wenormally don't get to compete with."

Next weekend, both teams are at Columbia forthe Heptagonal championships.

"Yesterday was a low-key atmosphere, and somepeople relaxed and had better races than normal,"Schotte said. "It's a good attitude to have goinginto Heps.