ITHACA, N.Y. – The Big Red men had a very strong day at the Kane Invitational on Saturday in Barton Hall, producing 14 IC4A qualifiers and nine event wins. Once again, the story of the meet begins with fireworks in the weight throw as the dynamic trio of national caliber Cornell weight men set an excellent tone in the meet's first event.
Sophomore
Rudy Winkler moved to #4 all-time at Cornell in the weight throw with a heave of 65-4 to place first; senior co-captain
Stephen Mozia was second at 64-5 (good for #7 all-time) and junior
Bryan Rhodes (the current school record holder) also threw huge, reaching 63-3 1/2 as they each easily eclipsed the IC4A standard. Mozia then came back to win the shot put in a seasonal best of 63-2 1/4, currently the tenth best performance in the NCAA thus far.
There were also several outstanding showings in the vertical jumping events. Sophomore
Grant Sisserson continued his fine 2015 season, winning a thrilling pole vault competition at 17-0 3/4. Joining him as an IC4A qualifier was senior
Keith Rayburn, who again cleared 15-9. In the high jump, freshman
Myles Lazarou took first with an IC4A-qualifying performance of 6-10 1/4, #9 all-time at Cornell. Sophomore
Justin Love was also an IC4A qualifier, clearing 6-8 1/4 for third. Another IC4A qualifier and event winner came from sophomore
John Enkler in the triple jump, as he reached 47-6 1/4.
There were some strong showings on the track including two event wins that bettered the IC4A standard. Freshman
Ross Clarke won the 800 in an IC4A-qualifying 1:56.10 and junior
Ryan Hynes took the 60 in 6.96 to better the Eastern standard. Another event win came from sophomore
Wynn Curtis, who took the 60 hurdles in 8.56 (he ran the prelims in 8.27); Curtis then came back to get second in the 500 in an IC4A-qualifying 66.17. A pair of freshmen qualified for IC4As in the 200 as
Michael Smith (2nd, 22.35) and
Stanford Cooper (3rd, 22.49) ran well. And another freshman took first place in the 1000 as
Tim Boston cruised to victory in 2:32.54.
Several other Cornellians had top five event finishes: sophomore Ty Kawalec (4th, 15:24.08) in the 5K, sophomores Richard Zidani (2nd, 8.47),
Jordan Sherwood (3rd, 8.51) and
Justin Love (5th, 8.67) in the 60 hurdles, freshman
Blake Smith (5th, 7.12) in the 60, freshman
James Smith (5th, 51.90) in the 400, Sherwood (4th, 67.57) in the 500, senior
Kieran Kinnare (4th, 2:01.67) in the 800, junior
Matt Crawford (2nd, 2:33.21) in the 1000, the 4X400 of Kinnare, Clarke, Crawford and Boston (3rd, 3:29.17), sophomore Weston Northrup (3rd, 22-9 1/4), freshman
Alex Rodriguez (4th, 21-11 1/2) and sophomore
Logan Kreglow (5th, 21-6 1/4) in the long jump, and freshman
Oseoba Airewele (3rd, 46-0 1/2) and sophomore Sean Waterston (5th, 43-9) in the triple jump.
Complete results can be found here:
http://cornellbigred.com/documents/2015/1/31//2015_Kane_Invitational_Results.pdf?id=6441 Next up for Cornell is a trip to Penn State for the Sykes-Sabock Challenge, which will be held in State College on Friday and Saturday, February 6-7.
