In the field events, Tekky-Jaja won the high jump with a leap of 2.01 meters. Classmate Travis Hughes took second in the long jump and won the triple jump.

Tekky-Jaja and Hughes picked up the slack in the jumping events after juniors Samyr Laine and Lawrence Adjah had to sit out the meet due to injuries.

“Hopefully they’ll be recovered soon. And because they’re two of the best athletes in the league, once they’re back it’s going to be a big boost to our overall total,” McLean-Foreman said.

Hinson’s throw of 15.34 meters led a Crimson sweep of the top spots in the shot put. While Hinson and the rest of the Harvard men can take pride in pulling out the victory against Northeastern on Saturday, the team must begin to look ahead to the more important meets later in the season.

And according to Hinson, the team needs to perform at a consistently high level.

“After going through the results, I was still disappointed with the number of performances we had that would score points at the conference meet. There’s a lot of work to be done in January,” Hinson said.

One area where hope lies for the Crimson as the season unfolds further is sprinting. With the addition of a number of new sprinters this season, the team and its captains are optimistic.

“We did an excellent job in the distances and throws, and we’re very strong in those events,” McLean-Foreman said. “Having said that, we’ve got some new guys in the sprints who have shown great potential and its really exciting to see what they can do as the season progresses.”

WOMEN

With the women, as with the men, the meet came down to the relays.

Unfortunately for the Crimson women, they dropped both relays to Northeastern and ended up losing by 19 points.

The real heartbreaker for Harvard came in the 4 x 400 meter race when a Harvard team known for its long distance strength almost pulled off the victory against the Huskies’ squad. The Crimson lost that relay by .02 seconds.

Additionally, freshman Chidimma Kalu showed some promise as a rookie for the sprinting side of the Harvard team, winning the 200-meter dash in a time of 25.13 and then taking second in the 60 meter sprint.

“I’m really excited that we have such strong sprinters this year, like Kalu, and the depth in the sprinting events should help us a lot in the meets to come,” Maludzinski said.

The majority of the rest of the Crimson’s points came in the long distance events, in which Harvard won the mile, 800-meter and 3,000-meter runs.