MIT ATHLETES CONTINUE TO DOMINATE WITH PERSONAL BESTS
February 10, 2007
While some of their teammates competed at Boston University to take advantage of the banked track, many MIT track and field members stayed home at their own Coed Invitational to face very good competition from 13 New England colleges in a meet much shorter in duration that the two-day marathon across the river.
The only athlete to compete in both was James Oleinik. Setting a season best the night before at BU, Oleinik threw a personal best of 49-7 to win the shot put competition at MIT.
Anthony Teixeira had a very fine day of competition, setting two personal bests. In the high hurdles, Teixeira sprinted to a 8.04 victory and then came back to the long jump to leap 21-5 1/4 to place third, just ahead of teammates Chris Bateman and Stephen Morton who both jumped 21-4 1/4.
Brian Jacokes led a group of MIT distance runners in the 5000 in an effort to qualify for the New England Division III Championship next weekend. Jacokes negative split the final mile and ran a 34 final 200 to finish in 15:41.83 but missed qualifying by 1.83 seconds. Jacokes nevertheless ran another huge PR and won the event. Trevor Rundell showed he is coming back well from injury as he ran 16:00.15.
Althought the vaulters dominated the event as usual, Patrick Barragan had the only personal best. Barragan vaulted to 13-3 for a fourth place finish.
Other fine performances turned in were Will Gibson's PR of 1:28.34 in the 600, Chris Wong, Jack Bourbonnais and Rocco Repetski in the mile running 4:30.52, 4:31.80 and 4:35.42 respectively, Eric Beecher with a season best of 5-11 1/4 in the high jump and Jonathan Hsieh's season best of 6.84 in the 55 dash.
About half of the team will travel north to Bates College to compete in the New England Division III Championship next Saturday.