Senior Matt Seidel won the 5000 meters in 15:37 while classmates Eric Lahaie and Niall Murphy took the 400- and 110-meter hurdles, respectively.
“Winning this meet was a big goal, especially coming off our close loss [to Yale] indoors,” co-captain Taylor Buckley said. “We’d been gearing up for the meet and the whole team really came up big. The win was especially good for this group of seniors, who really weren’t interested in going out losers to Yale.”
Women
Despite losing to the Bulldogs, the Harvard women still had four competitors place first and qualify for the England meet.
“Every finish of each event was extremely intense and exciting to watch and cheer for because you knew that whoever crossed first or second was going to England,” co-captain Ashley Furst said. “I am still confident by the performances given we will be ready for [the Heptagonal Championships], especially with another meet between now and then.”
Furst finished second in the 400 meters and anchored the mile relay in its second-place finish.
Junior BreeAnna Gibson overcame the shoulder injury she suffered during her first event to emerge with victories in the discus and the shot put.
Her classmate Johanna Doyle won the hammer throw convincingly with a throw of 56.97 meters, inching closer to the Harvard record held by Nicky Grant ’02.
Junior Andrea Li capped off a solid day in the field events with a second-place finish in the pole vault, clearing 10’6.
The hurdlers led the way in the track portion of competition, led by freshman Mary Serdakowski, sophomore Eleanor Thompson and senior Alayna Miller, who swept the 100 meters.
Freshman Adanna Scott completed the Crimson hurdlers’ dominance, winning the 400 meters.
Meanwhile, freshman Laura Maludzinski finished second in the 1500 meters in 14:25.86, with junior Bev Whelan coming in third just behind her.
Senior Sam Piper placed second in the 800 meters with a time of 2:13.
“A lot of athletes were injured or not feeling well coming into this meet,” Li said. “But people pulled through and scored points for us. Although we didn’t win, we pulled a lot of performances that bode well for the future.”
Both the men’s and women’s teams are in action next weekend at the New Hampshire Invitational. In addition, Harvard will take a select few athletes to compete in the Penn Relays later this week.
The Penn Relays are one of the nation’s premier amateur track and field competitions.
—Staff writer Samita A. Mannapperuma can be reached at mannapp@fas.harvard.edu.