Men
While the women owed their success primarily to their performances in the field events, the Harvard men could only manage a single point there, senior D. J. Patterson’s sixth-place finish in the shot put.
On the track, though, the Crimson excelled, outscoring every team but the Tigers in the running events.
Co-captain Kobie Fuller and junior Chris Lambert led the way, with Lambert tying the school record he set in the 60-meter dash two weeks ago with a time of 6.73 seconds.
“It’s great to see someone winning an event we haven’t been strong in for a while,” sophomore Alasdair McLean-Foreman said.
Fuller, competing in the 500-meter run to allow sophomore Brandon Smith to run in the 400-meter dash, captured the event in 1:03.39 despite battling an illness and a star-studded field featuring two former Heptagonal champions. The switch also paid dividends for Smith, who, competing in his first Heptagonals—after missing last year’s competition with an injury—took third in 49.09 seconds.
In the 1,000-meter run, junior John Traugott got boxed in, but still managed to place third in 2:29.08, while classmate Matt Seidel earned second-team All-Ivy honors by placing second in the 3,000-meter run in 8:24.70.
All three of Harvard’s relays finished in the top three, led by the 4x400-meter squad comprised of senior Osahon Omoregie, Smith, Lambert and Fuller, that won in 3:16.72 despite being seeded in the slower section. The Crimson also got third-place finishes from senior Nnamdi Okike, junior Christopher Antunes, co-captain John Cinelli and Traugott in the 4x800-meter relay in 7:42.60 and Seidel, senior Shawn Parker, freshman Russell Leino and McLean-Foreman in the distance medley relay in 10:11.05.
McLean-Foreman ran courageously after spending much of the week on crutches with a sprained ankle, but he was still not satisfied with his own performance in the mile, where he placed second in 4:09.91 to earn a spot on the second-team All-Ivy squad.
McLean-Foreman will have a chance to make up for this weekend’s disappointment next week, though, when he and several other elite Harvard athletes compete in the IC4A/ECAC Championships at Boston’s Reggie Lewis Track Center on Saturday and Sunday.