Dartmouth Men Claim Sixth at Ivy League Indoor Heps

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Dartmouth Men Claim Sixth at Ivy League Indoor Heps

3/1/2015 5:41:00 PM | Men's Track & Field

By: Dartmouth

BOSTON – The Dartmouth men claimed sixth at the 2015 Indoor Track & Field Ivy League Heptagonal Championship Sunday at Harvard's Gordon Track.

Princeton ran away from the field with 161 points, while Cornell was second with 98. Brown (78), Penn (75), Harvard (64.5), the Big Green (59), Columbia (56) and Yale (21.5) rounded out the field.

Junior Curtis King won the 5000m individual title on Sunday afternoon, just a day after taking second and earning All-Ivy League Second Team Honors in the 3000m. King's win in the 5000 came in 14:16.02, helping the junior harrier finish the weekend with 18 of his team's 59 total points.

Sophomore Nico Robinson came into the day leading the field through four events in the heptathlon. Robinson would hold on to win the title on Sunday in the final three, but by the slimmest of margins thanks to defending champion Peter Rhodes of Brown making things interesting in the last event.

Rhodes won the 1000m race in 2:40.08, while Robinson was sixth in 2:56.79. The times and point totals following that race saw the final standings with Dartmouth's Robinson (5,342) winning by just five points over the second-place Rhodes (5,337), giving the Big Green their first heptathlon champion since Mustafa Abdur-Rahim in 2004; the last of nine-straight champions for Dartmouth in the event.

Sophomore Alex Frye was another Big Green student-athlete to put together a solid day, taking second in the high jump by clearing 6-10.25/2.09m and earning eight points. Frye wasn't done, though, as he also claimed fifth in the final of the 60m hurdles with an 8.21 to his credit.

The three freshmen of Ben Colello, Zachary Plante and Amos Cariati along with sophomore Phil Gomez posted a 3:17.46 in the Ivy League's unique 4x440-yard relay, taking second and earning eight points.

Both the distance medley relay (DMR) and 4x880-yard relay squads finished sixth in their respective events to pick up a point each.