THE BASICS:
- Locations: The Gordon Indoor Track (Cambridge, Mass.) and Gantcher Family Sports and Convocation Center (Medford, Mass.)
- The Lead: The MIT men's track and field team tallied two victories and four runner-up finishes at the Tufts Cupid Challenge on Saturday. The Engineers also saw first-year
Anthony Meng (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and sophomore
Sean Huckleberry (San Francisco, Calif.) produce top-10 performances at Crimson Elite on Friday.
HOW IT HAPPENED AT TUFTS:
- Junior Walter Truitt (Houston, Texas) won the 60m hurdles in a time of 8.38.
- Junior Simon Opsahl (Redlands, Calif.) recorded the 19th fastest
800m time in the country this season with a 1:54.08 to claim first place.
- Junior Pablo Arroyo (Richardson, Texas) was the runner up in the mile (4:15.97) while senior Jacob Hansen (Bountiful, Utah) placed sixth (4:18.72) and registered a personal record.
- Meng placed second in the high jump with a mark of 2.01m (6' 7") as sophomore Nathan Shapiro (Glenview, Ill.) finished second in the long jump with a 6.72m (22' 0.75") mark.
- The 4x400 relay team of sophomore Conrad Casebolt (Aurora, Colo.), first-year
Davis Lee (Mountain Brook, Ala.), first-year
Connor Sterling (New Milford, Conn.), and sophomore Jack DeBaugh (Severna Park, Md.) placed second in a time of 3:21.91.
- Senior Garrett Whitmore (Webster City, Iowa) and Will Liu (San Marino, Calif.) finished third and fourth respectively in the 60m in times of 7.06 and 7.09.
- Casebolt was fifth in the
200m with a time of 23.01.
- Lee placed fifth in the
400m crossing the finish line in 51.36.
- Junior Reece Shuttleworth (Arlington, Va.) was fifth in the
1000m with a time of 2:35.18.
- Senior Mark Mosser (Lakeville, Minn.) cleared a personal-best 4.10m (13' 5.25") to finish fifth in the pole vault.
HOW IT HAPPENED AT CRIMSON ELITE
- Meng placed sixth with a 1.99m (6' 6.25") mark in the high jump.
- Huckleberry captured eighth place in the triple jump with a distance of 13.98m (45' 10.5").
- Junior Sam Engebretson (Sioux Falls, S.D.) ranked 12th in the shot put (15.39m / 50' 6") and 13th in the weight throw (17.47m / 57' 3.75").
- Sophomore Patrick Haertel (Cumming, Ga.) logged a personal-best time of 6.81 in the prelims of the 60m, which ranks seventh nationally.
- Below are the current top-20 rankings for the Engineers, from meets up to this point in the season as listed at
www.tfrrs.org.
60 Meters
7. Patrick Haertel – 6.81
800 Meters
13. Simon Opsahl – 1:52.48
15. Ziyad Hassan – 1:52.60
Mile
11. Sam Acquaviva – 4:07.98
5,000 Meters
6. Lowell Hensgen – 14:13.41
Distance Medley Relay
1. Ziyad Hassan, Jack DeBaugh, Charlie Glass, Sam Acquaviva – 9:49.91
6. Reece Shuttleworth, Pau Ilerbaig-Bajona, Sam Amin, Simon Opsahl – 10:12.75
20. Jaxon Miller, Connor Sterling, Nate Martinez, David Whitaker – 10:29.83
High Jump
3. Anthony Meng - 2.08m (6' 9.75")
Triple Jump
20. Sean Huckleberry – 14.14m (46' 4.75")
Shot Put
4. Sam Engebretson - 17.43m (57' 2.25")
Weight Throw
7. Sam Engebretson – 18.86m (61' 10.5")
UP NEXT:
- MIT will compete at the two-day David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University beginning on Friday, Feb. 9. The following day, the Engineers will host the Gordon Kelly Invitational at the Johnson Athletic Center Track.
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