Championships Central

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Princeton has a three-peat in its sights, with the lead after day one of the Ivy League men’s Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championship, Saturday in Princeton, N.J.
 
The Tigers scored 51 points through five events to hold off Harvard, which garnered 34. Penn is third with 26 points, while Brown (20), Columbia (15), Cornell (8) and Dartmouth (1) round out the rest of the standings.
 
The Tigers won two events on Saturday, including a 1-2 performance in the long jump with junior Jesse Thibodeau getting the win and freshman Aviram Shwarzbard placing second. Senior Adam Kelly defended his hammer throw title with a heave of 233-5, fourth-best in meet history. Princeton also picked up valuable points in the discus, where sophomore Zorawar Otal was the runner up, and the 10K, where the Tigers went 2-4-5, led by junior Conor Lundy.
 
Harvard freshman Samuel Welsh claimed the discus with a throw of 193-2, fourth-best in meet history. Penn junior Sean Clarke became the first Quaker to go back-to-back in the pole vault since Neal Wojdowski in 2004 and 2005, while Columbia senior Brian Zabilski held off Lundy and Harvard junior Kieran Tuntivate down the straightaway to win the 10K.
 
Day two of Ivy Heps begins at 10 a.m. with the women’s javelin and and the decathlon 110m hurdles. The live broadcast on ESPN+ will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the women’s steeplechase.