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Cabral, Princeton Men Sprint To Win At Heps Cross Country
October 29, 2010 | Men's Cross Country
NEW YORK (10/29/10) - Before the start of the 2010 Ivy League Heptagonal men's cross country race, much of the talk centered around Princeton's Donn Cabral, the nasty cold that he had and how it was going to affect him and his team.
Watching Cabral fly down the final 100 meters of the five mile race, the talk was of what he would have done had he been able to breathe.
Cabral turned in a performance that left the large crowd at Van Cortlandt Park awed, running the second-fastest time in Heps history to take the individual title by nearly 11 seconds. When runners wearing orange and black followed him across the finish line placing 5-6-8-13, Princeton had itself a sweep of the men's and women's championships and its fourth men's championship in five years.
Cabral's winning time for the five-mile course was 24:03.8, which was 10.2 seconds ahead of Harvard's Daniel Chenoweth, the 2009 individual champion. Only Dartmouth's Ben True, who ran a 23:59.6 in 2008, has ever run a faster race at Heps.
Put another way, Chenoweth ran the seventh-best Heps time ever and still didn't come within 10 seconds of Cabral.
The first four places were Cabral, Chenoweth, Ethan Shaw of Dartmouth and Tom Poland of Columbia, but it was all Tigers after that.
Brian Leung finished fifth in 24:35.6, followed by Kyle Soloff in sixth and Mark Amirault in eighth. A Dartmouth push with runners who finished 10-11-12 put a bit of drama into the team standings, but Princeton's Max Kaulbach race past Cornell's Nate Edelman to finish 13th and give Princeton its five scorers.
The result was a team total of 33 - the same total of the Princeton women 45 minutes earlier - followed by Dartmouth's 55 for second. Columbia finished third with 94.
The win came 52 weeks after the Princeton men suffered a stinging one-point lost to Columbia on the same course in last year's Heps, a race in which Cabral finished sixth. Since then, he finished second outdoors at the NCAA steeplechase final and now has added the title of Heps cross country champion. His 2010 time was 1:35 faster than it was a year ago.
Princeton will be off until Nov. 13, when it competes in the NCAA regionals at Penn State.
Princeton finishers
1. Donn Cabral 24:03.8
5. Brian Leung 24:35.6
6. Kyle Soloff 24:37.8
8. Mark Amirault 24:41.2
13. Max Kaulbach 24:56.0
21. Alejandro Arroyo Yamin 25:10.8
24. Joe Stilin 25:13.7
32. James Webb 25:25.5
43. Garrett Rowe 25:39.1
49. Jonathan Vitez 25:47.1
56. Peter Maag 25:52.6
75. Michael Franklin 26:20.4
Team standings
1. Princeton 33
2. Dartmouth 55
3. Columbia 94
4. Penn 118
5. Cornell 126
6. Harvard 141
7. Yale 149
8. Brown 188
2010 Men's Cross Country All-Ivy
First Team
Donn Cabral, Princeton, JR
Dan Chenoweth, Harvard, SR
Ethan Shaw, Dartmouth, JR
Tom Poland, Columbia, SR
Brian Leung, Princeton, JR
Kyle Soloff, Princeton, SR
Adrien Dannemiller, Cornell, SR
Second Team
Mark Amirault, Princeton, SR
Jeff Perrella, Yale, SR
Phil Royer, Dartmouth, SO
Tom Robbins, Dartmouth, SR
Brad Kenimer, Dartmouth, JR
Max Kaulbach, Princeton, JR
Nate Edelman, Cornell, SR