Complete Results

BOSTON – It was a historic weekend for Cornell track and field as the Big Red men and women swept the Eastern track and field championships, with the women placing first in the ECAC team competition to become the first Ivy League women's team to ever win an ECAC team track title and the men claiming the historic IC4A team title for the second time in six seasons. Both teams competed great just a week removed from dramatic second-place team finishes at the Heps in Barton Hall.

The Cornell men scored 74 points to dethrone defending champion Connecticut by 15 points, powering to the team title on the strength of five events wins, 13 All-East scoring performances and two school records. IC4A champions were senior Nick Huber in the heptathlon, sophomore Montez Blair in the high jump, freshman Stephen Mozia in the shot put, freshman Rutger Admirand in the 800 and the 4x800, which ran the best time in the nation this year. As is the team's trademark, Cornell scored across the board in all the event groups, putting things together for a true team championship.

Cornell got on the board Saturday with a pair of scoring efforts in the pole vault as sophomore Peter Roach was fourth at 16' 2 3/4” and freshman Keith Rayburn tied for seventh at 15' 9”.

In addition, a host of Cornellians advanced to Sunday. In the 60, senior Chase Aaronson (6.85), junior Jedidiah Yiadom-Adarquah (6.94) and sophomore Chris Bain (6.94) moved on the semifinals, senior Dan Thomas (63.35) moved on to the finals in the 500, freshman Rutger Admirand (1:50.80) and sophomore Will Weinlandt (1:49.83, No. 3 all-time) advanced in the 800. The junior duo of Andy Arnold (4:10.84) and Will McFall (4:10.85) advanced in the mile.

In the relays, the 4x800 of senior Chris Jakobson (1:55.8), freshman Ben Potts (1:54.3), sophomore Eric Bice (1:52.4) and sophomore John Schilkowski (1:52.4) ran 7:35.44 and the 4x400 of freshman Cisco Olloqui (48.5), Admirand (47.4), senior Tom Randall (48.9) and senior Brian Freitas (47.7) ran 3:12.74, which is No. 6 all-time at Cornell.

The Big Red scored huge points on Sunday. Senior Nick Huber won his second major heptathlon title in a week, placing first with a  total of 5,373 points this weekend. Classmate Vince Formica was a solid fifth with 5,060 points and fellow-senior Chris Ryan set a personal record for the second straight week with 4,977 points to get ninth, No. 6 all-time.

The Big Red's other event wins also demonstrated the team's balance as one came in the jumps, another in the throws, another in an individual event on the track and the final title was in a relay.

The Big Red's two likely NCAA-qualifiers were big winners on Sunday as sophomore Montez Blair cleared 7' 2 1/2” in the high jump to set a new Boston University facility record. In the shot put, freshman Stephen Mozia claimed his first IC4A title with a heave of 59' 8 1/4”. The Big Red had other scorers in these events: sophomore Tommy Butler cleared 6' 8 1/4” to get seventh in the high jump and senior co-captain Bob Belden placed eighth in the shot put at 54' 7 1/4”.

Cornell's middle distance runners had a huge weekend. Freshman Rutger Admirand set a new school and freshman record with an outstanding first-place run of 1:49.03. Just a day after his breakthrough 1:49, sophomore Will Weinlandt was ninth in 1:57.26. And in the 4x800 final, despite not running two of their top three 800 runners (2011 Heps champ Nick Wade was back in Ithaca nursing a sore Achilles and 1:49 runner Weinlandt was held out), the quartet of senior Chris Jakobson (1:54.1), sophomore Eric Bice (1:51.1), sophomore John Schilkowski (1:49.9) and Admirand (1:48.8) won the indoor 4x800 for the fourth time in the past 10 years with the nation's leading time and a new school record. The Big Red also had a fine fifth-place effort from McFall in the mile, as he ran a personal-best 4:08.05 for fifth. Arnold was ninth in 4:18.95.

In the 60 dash, Aaronson scored a valuable third with a time of 6.80; Bain (10th, 6.92) and Adarquah-Yiadom (13th, 6.98) didn't advance past the semi-finals. In the 4x400, with the meet well in hand, the quartet of Randall (49.7), Olloqui (47.9), sophomore Mike Rabbitt (49.9) and Freitas (48.2) ran 3:16.00 to score eighth place.

Several others competed over the weekend: Rabbitt in the 400 (22nd, 49.73), Freitas in the 500 (15th, 63.95), junior Matt McCullough (10th, 8:21.57, a PR) and sophomore Max Groves (14th, 8:23.66, also a personal record) in the 3000, junior Brett Kelly (ninth, 14:17.05, No. 9 all-time) and senior Chandler Kemp (23rd, 14:47.11) in the 5000, senior Dan Hagberg (18th, 8.34) and junior Zach Zeller (22nd, 8.47) in the 60 hurdles, sophomore Kinsley Ojukwu in the 60 (37th, 7.50), sophomore Stephen Bell (12th, 22-4 1/4), Aaronson (15th, 22' 1 3/4”), freshman Han Wei Chew (16th, 22' 3/4”) in the long jump, senior Chris Arlinghaus in the high jump (9th, 6' 8 1/4”), sophomore Dan Scott (10th, 47' 6 1/4”) and Bell (28th, 44' 3 1/2”) int he triple jump, freshman Ben Tenpas (15th, 51' 11”) in the shot put and Belden (26th, 53' 2 1/4”) and junior Bob Fiedler (31st, 51' 11”) in the weight throw.

Next up for the Big Red is the Indoor NCAAs in Boise, Idaho on March 9-10. The Cornell men have two likely qualifiers (the official fields will be announced on Monday) with Montez Blair in the high jump and Stephen Mozia in the shot put. After that, the Big Red head to California for the annual spring trip, with meets at Cal-State Northridge on Saturday, March 17 and UC Irvine on March 23-24.