In this past weekend’s Ivy Heptagonal championships—the pinnacle of the winter track season—the Harvard men’s and women’s track teams fell short while traditional powerhouses dominated.

Both teams struggled to match the depth of top teams Princeton and Yale and earned points mainly from individual standouts.

On the men’s side, the team came into Sunday without a single point, but left the meet sixth in the Ivy League, just 11 points out of fourth place. Princeton took home the championship with 159 points over the weekend.

“We scored 44 points in basically one day,” junior Tekky Andrew-Jaja said. “We had zero coming into Sunday, and now we feel that there is nothing stopping us from performing even better in Heptagonals to come.”

For the women, the result was slightly more sour—they were only able to manage nine points, while Cornell dominated the competition with 164.

The only victories recorded for the Crimson came from junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman in the 1000m and sophomore Samyr Laine in the men’s triple jump.

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On the day that defines the meaning of leap year, the jumpers on the men’s efforts earned 30 of Harvard’s total points.

In the triple jump, Laine and sophomore Lawrence Adjah swept the top two spots, earning all-Ivy league honors for the performance.

For Laine, his new personal record—and winning jump of 15.5 meters—placed him a mere 10 cm away from the qualifying jump for the NCAA Championships. But Adjah will be right on his heels for the next two-and-a-half years, jumping a career best 15.05m himself.

“[Adjah]’s excelled in this event after a hiatus from the long jump and the hurdles, and will continue to make big strides in the triple,” co-captain Onyechi Ezekwueche said.

In the high jump, Andrew-Jaja also scored for the Crimson despite injuring his knee during the triple jump competition earlier in the day.

“The pain was still there, and I still felt it shooting through my leg in every step, but I had to jump,” Andrew-Jaja said. “I did not want any what if’s haunting me down the road.”

Matching his personal best of 2.06, Andrew-Jaja earned second place in the event.

One of the downsides for Harvard came from one of its co-captains, who was not able to register a distance in the long jump competition.