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@ByName:By Bo Light

@ByTitle: Team Member

@Body:The MIT menÕs track team ran (literally) its record to 10-0 this weekend in a romp over Bowdoin, Colby, Westfield State, and Worcester State. The Engineers again were dominant in the field events and long distance runs, and they finished the meet with a whopping 253.5 points, more than 130 points ahead of second-place Bowdoin.

In the field events, Eitan Sabo Õ97 scored his first points of the year by taking sixth in the 35 lb. weight throw, and John Wallberg Õ96 placed second in both the weight throw and the shot put to start things off for the Engineers. Matt Robinson Õ94 won the pole vault for the 184th consecutive week, while Freddie Hernandez Õ95, Jeremy Melvin Õ97, and Bill Arnold Õ94 took the third, fourth, and fifth scoring places.

MIT showed its true dominance of the meet in the jumping events, where Andy ÒJumpinÕ JoeÓ Ugarov Õ95 won both the high jump (6Õ 7Ó) and the triple jump (43Õ 5Ó), and all four MIT competitors scored in two of the three events.

In the long jump, Hung Hoang Õ96 soared to first place with a 20Õ 10 1/2Ó leap, Morio Alexander Õ96 took fourth, Micky Williams Õ94 took sixth with a 19-foot jump, and Elliot Hui Õ94 grabbed eighth place. In the high jump, James Kirtley G jumped 6Õ 5Ó to take second to Ugarov, and Hoang finished in a fifth-place tie. Hoang then finished second in the triple jump, with Hui right behind in third, and Alexander in sixth place.

In the running events, the Engineers seemed to grow stronger as the distance increased. Jay Chiang Õ94 edged out a competitor for fourth place in the 55-meter dash, while Brian Pendleton Õ94, settled for sixth, and Akin Aina Õ95 took eighth.

Matt Robinson took a short break from vaulting to finish third in the hurdles; Paul Ogagan Õ97 was fourth, and Ed Cho Õ94 picked up seventh place for the team. Marcelo Targino Õ96 placed fifth in the 200, with Aina and Pendleton taking sixth and seventh, respectively.

Only three running events were won by MIT runners. The first of these was the 400, which was won by Dan Corcoran Õ94. An impressive pack made up of Eliott Mason Õ94, Frank Benham Õ97, and Edgar ÒIÕm not a freshmanÓ Ngwenya Õ96 finished fourth through sixth in that event.

<*p(0,12,0,10,2.6,0,g,"U.S. English")>Another pack - Kevin Knoedler Õ94, Targino, Javit Drake Õ94, and Bo Òplease let me run thisÓ Light Õ96 Ñ took the last four scoring places in the 500. In the 800, Ed Patron Õ95 finished third despite a valiant surge in the last 200 meters (he finished less than half a second behind the winner), and Kimathi Hardy Õ97 ran a solid race to finish sixth. Jerry Pratt Õ94 finished third in the 1000, while yet another pack of MIT runners, this time Dan Helgesen Õ97, Jesse Darley Õ95, and Rob Casadonte Õ94, finished fifth, sixth, and seventh.

Darley and Tarik Saleh Õ95 took first and second in the 1500, while Karl Munklewitz Õ95 and Gerry Corona Õ97 came in fourth and fifth, respectively. In the 3000, the Engineers had their best race of the day, as Ethan Crain Õ95, Carlos Duran Õ94, Arnold Seto Õ96, and Josh Feldman Õ97 swept the top four places. The 1600-meter relay team turned in its best time of the year, but couldnÕt catch the team from Colby and had to settle for second.

The day ended with a third place finish for the distance medley relay team. The final scores were MIT 253.5, Bowdoin 119, Colby 110, Westfield State 90, Worcester State 13.5. Be sure to catch the action at Johnson Athletic Center this Saturday as the Engineers host archrival Tufts and Division II Springfield College. Field events start at 1 p.m., running events at 2 p.m., and admission, as always, is free.