Boston, Mass. (March 4, 2007)?After shot putter Milan Jotanovic registered a mark of 19.07m (62' 6.75”) on his second throw of Sunday's IC4A Indoor Championships, he knew he would not need another as he eased his way to a second straight IC4A Indoor title, passing on his final three attempts. It turns out Tiina Magi could have done the same and still won the ECAC Championship in the triple jump.
Magi, who was the class of triple jump field at the 2006 ECAC Outdoor Championships, recorded a mark of 12.63m (41' 5.25”) on her first attempt of Sunday's competition at the Reggie Lewis Center to claim her first ECAC Indoor crown. The senior jumper took all of her attempts, but her first mark held up as the best of the day with the runner-up posting a top mark of 12.48m.
With Magi's ten points, Manhattan finished tied for 24th in the team standings out of more than 100 schools that comprise the ECAC.
Compiling 29 points over two days at the nearby IC4A Championships in Boston University's Armory, the men claimed ninth place overall in the team standings.
Ten of those 29 points came with relative ease courtesy of Jotanovic. The junior thrower's closest competition came from Yale University's John Langhauser, whose mark of 17.64m (57' 10.5”) was 1.43m off the winning throw.
Junior Chris Sole accounted for the Jaspers' other six points from Sunday's events by claiming third place in the high jump. Sole cleared 2.08m (6' 9.75”) to earn All-East honors for the second consecutive year, drastically improving on his eighth place finish at last year's meet. Before this past weekend's meet, the junior had consistently been jumping 2.06m, but had yet to clear the next notch on the bar this season. Sole owns a personal record of 2.14m (7' 0.25”) from the 2006 Metropolitan Outdoor Championships.
The day did not exactly go as planned for senior hurdler Joe Cruz. After finishing atop the first heat of Saturday's 55m hurdle preliminaries with a time of 7.65s, Cruz had a disappointing finish in Sunday's semifinals as he tripped in the opening moments of the race.