The women's cross country team captured its fourth straight Ivy League title after sweeping the top five spots at the annual Heptagonal Championships, affirming their dominance in the Ancient Eight during a race on Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
For the first time in the history of Ivy League cross country competition, one team swept the top five places and finished with a score of 15. Second-place Harvard tallied 69 points, and it was followed by Columbia, Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth. Penn and Yale rounded out the field. (The score posted by a team is the sum of the finishing positions of its first five runners, so a team aims to post the lowest score possible.)
Senior Liz Costello defended her individual championship when she finished the race in 16:55.7, becoming the first runner in a quarter-century to win three individual scoring titles at the Ivy championship meet. Costello was followed by sophomore Alex Banfich, junior Sarah Cummings, junior Ashley Higginson and senior Reilly Kiernan, who is also an associate news editor for The Daily Princetonian.
Junior Liz Deir, senior Alexa Glencer and freshman Alexis Mikaelian all finished in the top 50.
The men's team nearly joined the women as Ivy League champions, but they were bested by Columbia, 61-60.
Sophomore Brian Leung took third in the race with a time of 25:28.0, followed by sophomore Donn Cabral, junior Rob Speare, junior Mark Amirault and sophomore Sean Wilson. Sophomores Trevor Van Ackeren and Joe Stilin both finished in the top 50.
Behind Columbia and Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell tied for third place. Brown, Harvard, Yale and Penn rounded out the field.
Both teams will next compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Nov. 14, where the top two teams and top 10 individual runners will earn automatic bids to the NCAA Championship.
Correction
An earlier version of this article misspelled Higginson's name.
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