The Harvard women's track team reached its season-long goal last weekend, winning the Heptagonal Championships for the first time since 1990.

The men's team, devastated by injuries, finished last in the nine-team field, consisting of the eight Ivy schools plus Navy.

Harvard Women

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Harvard finished with 109 points, ahead of Brown with 92 and Cornell with 69.

The Crimson victory was not wholly unexpected. Harvard was undefeated in the dual-meet season, and beat Brown and Cornell, its toughest competition easily in a tri-meet in January.

The Crimson women had been consistently improving throughout the regular season. Not a week went by without someone setting a personal record.

And it all came together this past weekend at Dartmouth.

Leading the way, as usual, were two juniors, Dora Gyorffy and captain Brenda Taylor.

Gyorffy broke her own Heptagonal record and matched an NCAA Indoor record with a high jump of 1.97 meters. Gyorffy also won the triple jump, with a distance of 12.74 meters. It was the third consecutive season that Gyorffy had won both events.

Taylor single-handedly scored more points then two whole teams at this meet, winning the 55 meter sprint (7.08), the 55 meter high hurdles (7.87), and the 200 meters (24.41). She also ran a leg in the fifth-place 4x800 relay team.

Taylor has been the work-horse for the track team all season long, winning two or more events for the Crimson on a consistent basis.

Junior Marna Schutte also came up huge for the Crimson, winning the 400 meters (56.09) and placing second beyond Taylor in the 200 meters (24.90).

The Crimson 4x400 relay team of Barron, Schutte, sophomore Carrie McGraw, and freshman Amanda Shanklin, finished first with a time of 3:51.81. It was almost the same team that was victorious at the Millrose Games in the Madison Square Garden earlier in the season, except Taylor ran that meet instead of Barron.

Freshman Jennifer Leath finished third in the 55-meters behind Taylor and a Navy runner with a time of 7.31 seconds.

Other freshman scoring points for Harvard were Helena Ronner, who finished sixth in the long jump (5.68m), and Kendra Barron, who finished fifth in the 400 meters (58.20)

Sophomore Natalie Grant, who set an Ivy record earlier in the season, came up with a second place finish in the weight throw (16.57 m).

Freshman Jill Kornetsky also scored points for the Harvard throwers. She finished fifth in the shot put (13.09 m).

Mary Unsworth was the top Crimson distance runner, finishing third in the mile (4:55.59). She also finished fourth in the 800 meters (2:13.28).

Harvard Men

The Harvard Men finished last with only 19.33 points, well behind first-place Princeton with 121.3.

The Crimson got several point-earning performances from its junior and senior classes.

In the shot put, junior John Kraay placed third with a throw of 16.41 meters.

Sophomore Kobie Fuller survived the 400-meter run preliminaries and placed fourth in the finals with a time of 48.72, one-hundredth of a second behind third-place Jason Rife of Yale.

Sophomore John Cinelli used a 2:26.9 finish to place fifth in the 1000-meter run.

Junior Arthur Fergusson finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 14.71 meters.

Harvard's 4x800 meter relay team took fifth in 7:40.87.

Sophomore Osahon Omoregie took sixth in the 500 meter run with a time of 66.59.

Junior Christopher Clever took sixth in the weight throw with a toss of 16.28 meters.

Sophomore Aaron Snead finished in a three-way tie for sixth in the pole vault, ending his jumps at 4.65 meters.