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January 31, 2004
TECH SECOND IN HOME INVITE
Holy Cross 128.5; MIT 85.50; Mt Holyoke 78.5; New York U. 74.5; Wellesley 13; Regis 2.
Division I Holy Cross had more overall depth and led from the outset to win the TechTrack Invite at the Shobrys/Aronson Track on Saturday. The host Engineers prevailed for second after a close meet-long battle with Mt.Holyoke and New York University, with Wellesley and Regis completing the scoring.
Totals seee-sawed back and forth in mid meet, with MIT dropping as low as fourth when scoring only 6.5 points in the four races of 600 meters and below. But big scores in the shot and triple jump, as well as a skein of personal bests and near-bests secured necessary points to the runner-up spot at the meet end. Three track records were established in the meet.
If it's sounding like a broken record, it's because she continues to break records. Martha Buckley's varsity bests in the mile and 1000 give her three new marks for the year and five indoor standards overall. Buckley didn't score a win in either event, but her competitiveness pushed both race winners to their limits. After not running at Williams a week earlier, coach Slovenski commented beforehand that she was hungry for some fast times.
In the day's first individual race, Buckley ran just off the pace of top seeded Johanna Thomas of Mt.Holyoke for the most of the mile. Both runners cranked it up on the the final lap the gap closed along the homestretch but only to a mere .02 seconds at the wire, the new MIT record clocking 5:10.23.
Less than an hour later, the team's erstwhile scribe for The Tech took out the 1000 meters; Julia Gillis of Holy Cross moved in front in the final laps to earn a facility record with her 3:03.91, and Thomas moved to second in the final strides, but the Engineer captain lowered the kilometer mark by nearly 3 seconds to 3:05.05.
Also on the oval, Chinwe Nyenke and Christine Fanchiang clocked identical personal best times of 9.41 in the hurdles, #4 on the Tech lists, to secure points in the hurdles.
On the field, Cat Tweedie continues to push the bar upwards, scoring a personal best and track record of 11'9 in the pole vault, with Liz Au backing her in a best of 9'7". In the circle, Adrienne Irmer and Kelly Johnson threw personal bests in the shot and weight, respectively. Nalini Gupta's 16'9 1/4" PR led a 13 point charge in the long jump, and Nyenke and Gupta then bulked up the score with a 1-2 finish in the triple jump, the penultimately scored event to put Tech back in second for good.
Saturday will find the team across the river at Harvard for the Greater Boston Collegiates, the first event at 2:00 p.m.
