On the field, Harvard followed through in usual form, putting up strong performances in almost every event.

Gibson scored a big chunk of Harvard’s other points yesterday, earning fifth in the shot put and sixth in the discus with throws of 12.79 and 39.19 meters respectively.

Senior Sandra Venghaus competed over the course of the two days in the Heptathlon, eventually earning fifth place in the multifaceted event that may have been the most seriously affected by the poor weather.

“During the long jump it started raining a lot, which made the javelin really hard,” Venghaus said. “None of the heptathletes had ever really thrown off of grass, plus the rain left it very muddy. Fortunately it didn’t affect me too much.”

And only minutes after finishing the 800-meter race portion of that event, Venghaus took first in the shot put—the first time she has ever scored in the event.

Harvard’s nine points on the first day of competition came on the backs of two of its field team mainstays. In the hammer throw, senior Johanna Doyle—whose throws throughout the season had her in prime position to be right in the race for the victory—came within just three feet of the winning throw. Doyle’s toss of 54.71 meters left her just shy of Catrina Chisholm.

Outside of the throwing events, the Crimson saw a number of underclassmen score for the field team.

Freshman Allyson Pritchett’s jump of 5.37 meters was good enough for fifth place in the long jump. In the 110-meter hurdles, sophomore Mary Serdakowski placed sixth in the finals with a time of 14.83, followed by junior Eleanor Thompson in sixth.

After the day’s competition, Harvard found itself 29 points behind Princeton, which grabbed the early lead with victories in the pole vault and the 10,000-meter run. On the second day of competition, the Tigers faltered as Cornell surged ahead to victory on the backs of strong performances in almost all the field events yesterday.

Although Heptagonals marks the end of team competition, the select members of the Crimson who qualified will be back competing next weekend in the ECAC championships.

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Although the first day of competition mostly consists of qualifying races, Harvard started off Heptagonals on a slow foot with one point on Saturday and finished with only 29 points.

The Crimson’s sole point on the first day came from sophomore Christopher Ware in the hammer throw. He followed up his throw of 167’09” in that event by grabbing more points yesterday.

In the shot put, Ware captured fourth a toss of 15.55 meters—just ahead of senior teammate Kristoffer Hinson’s 15.40 effort.

On the track, Harvard’s 4x100-meter relay team of junior Travis Hughes, Mike Schulund, co-captain Onyechi Ezekwueche and Laine earned the Crimson’s only points on the track for the entire meet, finishing fourth. Adding to this relay’s performance was the fact that the quartet came out of a slower heat than some of the other teams in an event that did not have a finals in which the better team from multiple heats would have faced each other.