MIT STARTS THE SEASON WITH VICTORIES OVER BATES AND COAST GUARD
January 13, 2007
The MIT Engineers took advantage of their depth in the horizontal jumps and distance events to easily outdistance host Bates College and the visiting Coast Guard Academy by a score of 165 to 111 to 88, respectively, in the annual tri-meet.
Although six places scored in each non-relay event (7-5-4-3-2-1) a given team could not score more than four places due to the rules of the meet. Jake Ruzevick (4:23.40) led Yermie Cohen (4:29.36), Joe Roy-Mayhew (4:30.92) and Chris Wong (4:31.64) to a 1-2-3-4 sweep in the mile to start the running events and Hemu Arumugam (8:59.85) led Johannes Schneider (8:59.89), Tyler Abrams (9:01.14), Brian Jacokes (9:10.42) and Kevin DiGenova (9:12.13) to a 1-2-3-4-5 sweep in the last event, the 3000, to remove any doubt as to the outcome of the meet.
In the field events, Stephen Morton (20-11 1/4) led Chris Bateman (20-05 1/4) and Anthony Teixeira (20-03 1/2) to a 1-2-3 finish in the long jump and Bateman (42-04 1/4) turned right around and led Teixeira (42-04), Morton (42-01 1/4), and pole vault (14-06) and 55HH winner (8.20), Omari Stephens (41-10) to a 2-3-4-5 effort in the triple jump.
In addition to Stephens the other double winner for MIT was freshman Stephen Morton, winner of the 200 as well as the long jump. Other winners were Liam Fedus in the 600 (1:24.34) and Matt Bieniosek in the 800 (1:59.51).
It is still early in the season, heavy conditioning is still in play, and the jumpers and vaulters are still on a limited approach. This combined with the fact that the freshmen are being held back from doing too much in the early meets give reason to look forward to the later meets in anticipation of significant individual improvement.
Next week the Engineers are at home against RPI, Westfield State and Williams College on Saturday starting at noon time.