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BRONX, N.Y. -- Columbia won its first Ivy League Women’s Heptagonal Cross Country Championship since 2005, Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y.
 
The Lions saw their top five runners all finish among the top-20 overall en route to 66 points to hold off Dartmouth, which tallied 73 points. It marks the fifth title for the Lions, who won four in a row from 2002-05. Columbia, which finished last a season ago, is the first team to go from last to first from one year to the next in Ivy Heps history.
 
Yale placed third with 89 points, followed by Princeton (98), Cornell (106), Brown (132), Penn (139) and Harvard (214).
 
Lions senior Nell Crosby led the team with a fourth-place finish, while senior Erin Melly, sophomore Fiona Danieu, junior Erin Gregoire, sophomore Bianca Alonzo and senior Darah Hardie went 14-18. The individual champion was Princeton junior Gabrielle Forrest, who crossed the line in 21:02.3. She joins Elizabeth Bird as Tigers to win Ivy Heps since its return to Van Cortlandt Park, as Bird placed first in 2015.
 
Dartmouth was led by junior Olivia Lantz, who improved 13 spots from her 18^th-place finish a season ago. It marks the Big Green’s best finish since it won the championship in 2014.
 
Freshmen twins Gabrielle (Cornell) and Danielle Orie (Penn) epitomized #OneIvy by crossing the line in matching 21:20.0 times, with Gabrielle getting the edge for seventh-place.