Pencil it in: Quakers face NJIT on Jan. 5
Another piece of the men's basketball scheduling puzzle has been filled in.
The New Jersey Institute of Technology announced its 2007-08 schedule earlier this week and it includes a Jan. 5 meeting with the Quakers. According to NJIT's website, the game is slated to be played in Philadelphia at a time to be determined.
The Quakers will have to hurry back North for their meeting, as the Miami athletics department confirmed to the The Daily Pennsylvanian last week that the Hurricanes were slated to play Penn on Jan. 2.
NJIT is a school that began its transition from Division II to Division I in 2005 and will become a full-fledged DI member in 2009-10. Penn is also to play Florida Gulf Coast University, a team that recently completed its own transition to DI.
The NJIT-Penn game begins a three game stint against Ivy League opponents for NJIT. The Highlanders will play home games against Cornell and Columbia on Jan. 7 and 12, respectively.
-- Krista Hutz
Jumping all the way to a national title
Cornell junior Rayon Taylor became the first Ivy Leaguer in 55 years to capture a national championship in the triple jump in Sacramento, Calif. last Saturday.
His jump of 53 feet, eight-and-a-half inches bested the rest of the field by a full eight inches.
Even with this impressive mark, it was Taylor's teammate, Muhammad Halim, who was favored to win the event. Halim finished in eighth place.
Taylor's victory marked the first individual track and field national title for Cornell since Charlie Moore in 1951.
As a whole, the day was a successful one for the Big Red. On the women's side, senior Morgan Uceny came in sixth in the 800-meters and earned an All-American spot with a personal-best time.
Heading into the final three rounds, Taylor was in eighth place. But he seized the lead with his fifth round jump of 52 feet, nine-and-a-half inches.
From then on out, he only widened the gap between himself and the field, until his gargatuan final leap.
-Brandon Moyse
