NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's track team had a busy weekend in New York City, with competitive relay performances at the Millrose Games on Friday evening and a second place team finish at the New York Road Runners “College Night at the Armory” on Saturday. The men's meet on Saturday was tightly contested, with Princeton taking the team title over the Big Red in a twelve-team field by finishing strongly in the final two events of the evening, scorring 149 points to Cornell's 144 1/3. Big East powers Connecticut placed third with 92 1/3 and Villanova scored 76 for fourth.
On Friday at the Millrose Games, the men's 4X400 (3:24.43) and the 4X800 (7:40.59) both finished third. Senior co-captain
Cody Boyd, junior
Brian Freitas, senior co-captain
Chris Tait and junior Dan Thomas teamed up in the 4X400 while sophomore
Andy Arnold, senior co-captain
Adrien Dannemiller, freshman John Schilkowski and sophomore
Nick Wade ran on the 4X800.
The meet at the Armory on Saturday was competitive throughout and the Big Red had a pair of event winners to go along with 20 IC4A qualifiying performances and 12 top-three finishes in coming up just short against Heps rival Princeton in the team scoring. Junior
Bob Belden had a good pair of efforts on a marathon day in the throws (the men's weight concluded after 11:00 PM) as he won the shot put at 56-0, a personal best that moves him up to #4 on the Cornell all-time list. He then came back to get fourth in the weight throw at 56-10 3/4 while sophomore Bob Fiedler was fifth at 52-6 3/4. The Big Red's other event win came in the 60, as the Big Red's impressive group of young sprinters produced very good performances. Freshman
Chris Bain placed first in a time of 6.83 while sophomore
Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom was second at 6.89 and freshman
Kinsley Ojukwu was third at 6.90. Junior Chase Aaranson was also under the IC4A standard in running 6.97 in the prelims but false-started in the final. Ojukwu came back to place second in the 200 at 22.05, a new freshman record and #5 all-time at Cornell overall. Classmate
Justin McCollin, the previous holder of the freshman record, ran 22.44 for seventh. Cornell also saw very good efforts and and improvements in the hurdles as junior
Dan Hagberg ran a personal best 8.13 for third and #3 all-time at Cornell. Senior
Sean Potter was eighth in 8.63.
In the long sprints, the 500 had three IC4A qualifiers for the Big Red: junior
Brian Freitas was fourth in 64.19, junior Dan Thomas was fifth at 64.51 while junior Ken McClain was eighth at 64.79. Senior co-captain
Cody Boyd was eighth in the 400 at 49.63. In the 800, freshman John Schilkowski continued his fine debut season with a third place 1:51.59, a time good enough to move to #7 all-time at Cornell. Junior Chris Jakobsen also continued to run very well, placing fifth in an IC4A-qualifying 1:53.50. In the 1000, freshman
Eric Bice placed third in 2:27.71 while classmate
Will Weinlandt was eighth in 2:29.76 as both bettered the IC4A standard. Earlier, in the mile, senior co-captain
Adrien Dannemiller again competed very well, just a day after a great relay carry at Millrose, as he ran 4:07.27 for fifth and tied Rob Cunningham '94 for #10 on the school all-time list. Sophomore
Andy Arnold also qualified for the IC4As with a run of 4:13.86 for 12th. In a competitive 3K, senior Nate Edelman was eleventh in an IC4A-qualifying 8:25.63.
There were solid performances in the jumps as well. Junior
Chris Arlinghaus continued to consistently clear the IC4A standard of 6-8 3/4, to this week earn third while sophomore
Jourdan White was eighth at 6-6 3/4. In the triple jump, senior
Julian Remouns was second in an IC4A-qualifying 47-2 1/2 while freshman
Steven Bell was sixth at 46-2 3/4 and classmate
David Salbert was eighth at 45-9 3/4. Aaronson came back after the 60 to place second in the long jump at 22-9 1/4 while Bell tied for third at 22-5 3/4 an Salbert was fifth at 22-3 1/2. In the vault, freshman
David Kim was sixth at 15-3 and classmate
Peter Roach was eighth at 14-9.
In the relays, the 4X800 of Bice, Weinlandt, sophomore Will McFall, and Thomas ran 7:30.36 to better the IC4A standard for second and the freshman quartet of McCollin, Harshman, E.J. Williams and Ojukwu was sixth at 3:22.73.
Complete Armory results can be found here:
Millrose Games Results can be found here:
Next up for the Big Red is the Sykes-Sabock Challenge at Penn State on Saturday, February 5th. The Big Red then hosts the Kane Invitational on February 11-12 and then the Deneault Memorial on February 19th before returning to the Armory on February 26-27 for the Indoor Heps.
