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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY B, 1974
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A&M finishes third in SWC indoor track meet
Freshmen Don Riggs, Brad Blair guide Aggies to surprising finish
Heavily-favored Texas had no
trouble in running past everyone
in the First Annual Indoor South
west Conference Track and Field
Championships in Fort Worth
Friday.
Winning 10 of the 15 events the
Longhorns easily outdistanced
second place Baylor, outscoring
the Bears, 96-43.
A&M finished a surprising
third, failing to win a single event
but finishing second in several.
Perhaps the most impressive
of all was freshman pole vaulter
Brad Blair. One of only three
vaulters to make the qualifying
height of 14-0, (A&M’s David
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vault champion, was among those
who missed at the first mark)
Blair managed to outdo Texas’
Greg Hackney with a career best
of 15-0 and finish second behind
Longhorn David Shepherd’s
15-5%.
“It feels great,” said Blair of
his SWC debut. “I hope to be go
ing over 16 feet before the year,
is out.”
Scottie Jones, A&M’s other de
fending champ, was defeated in
the 60-yard hurdles by Texas’
Randy Lightfoot.
Jones and Lightfoot are rated
among the nation’s top hurdlers
and, both being juniors, have built
quite a rivalry the past two years.
Jones won the 120-yard high hurd
les in the conference meet last
year, so Lightfoot’s victory Fri
day is already setting the stage
for another big showdown in the
May 18 SWC meet in Houston.
A&M managed a firm grip on
second place in the 600-yard dash
when Horace Grant was edged by
the Longhorn’s Rudolph Griffith.
Married for less than a month
and even introduced as “the new
lywed,” Grant came close to out-
gunning the defending SWC 880-
yard dash champ in the final 100
yards but finished a mere tenth
of a second behind Griffith’s
1:12.3.
In the final running event of the
night, the Aggies’ mile relay team
finished second to the ever
present orange and white again.
Grant gave A&M a four-yard
lead on the first leg which Gerald
D’Ambrosio managed to maintain
despite a strong challenge by
Texas David McKee. Running a
great third leg Doug Brodhead
gave Sammy Dierschke a 10-yard
lead over the ‘Horns’ Don Strugal,
who had previously won the 440-
yard dash. Sturgal possessed a bit
too much of a finishing kick for
the Sealy sprinter and passed a
rapidly-tiring Dierschke in the
final 50 yards to give Texas the
event.
After the mile relays the fans
began filing out of the stands and
maintenance men began dismant
ling the track but the meet con
tinued as the high jump finals
were still being conducted. How
ever, A&M was a near miss once
again as Phil McGuire and fresh
man Don Riggs finished second
and thirrd, respectively.
Baylor freshman Kevin De Lorey
won the event with a leap of 6’-
10”. McGuire and Riggs each went
6-8 and with the same number of
misses but McGuire was awarded
second on the basis of having
greater success at the beginning
height.
“I’ve been jumping 6-8 for three
years now,” said McGuire, “and
I’m getting tired of it. I’d better
clear 6-10 pretty soon.”
McGuire did clear 6-10 in 1972,
his freshman year, but an injury
to his ankle hindered his spring
and he spent most of last year be
coming frustrated on not getting
his timing down. He doesn’t seem
bothered by the injury any longer
and he should be returning to top
form in the near future.
Riggs is a walk-on who came to
A&M hoping for success on the
basketball team. He was cut be
fore the season started and de
cided to try out for the track team
instead. Carrying a career best
of 6-2 in the high jump, he clear
ed 6-8 in his first meet last De
cember. Clearing the height again
Friday proved that the phenomen
al improvement was not a fluke
and now Riggs has his eyes on
seven f»et this year.
A 10-inch improvement might
seem to be quite a difficult task
had he not already attained three-
fifths of his goal.
SO-Yard High Hurdles: 1. Manay
Lightfoot, Texas, 7.2; 2. Scottie Jones,
A&M, 7.3; 3. Nate Robinson, Texas,
7.3; 4. Mike Fulghum, Rice, 7.5; 5.
Jimmy Gailey, Baylor, 7.6.
60-Yard Dash: 1. Gene Pouncy,
SMU, 6.1; 2. Overton Spence, Texas,
6.2; 3. Zoe Simpson, Rice, 6.2; 4.
Danny Teatt, Houston, 6.3; 5. Elijah
Davis, Arkansas, 6.3.
Mile Run: 1. Walker Lea, Baylor,
4:15.3; 2. Reed Fischer, 4:15.6; 3.
Randy Melancon, Arkansas, 4:16.5; 4.
Rom Aspel, Arkansas, 4:22.6; 5. Jesse
Mallanado, Texas, 4:23.9.
440-Yard Dash: 1. Don Sturgal,
Texas, 49.2; 2. Rufus Shaw, SMU,
50.2; 3. Michael Carter, Baylor, 50.3;
4. Kerry Smith, Texas, 50.3; 5. Tony
Harris, Tech, 50.6.
600-Yard Dash: 1. Rudolph
Griffith, Texas, 1:12.3; 2. Horace
Grant, A&M, 1:12.4; 3. Tim Son,
Baylor, 1:12.8; 4. Glen Goss, Texas,
1:13.2; 5. Larry Gnatzig, Houston,
1:14.4.
Pole Vault: 1. David Shepherd,
Texas, 15-5%; 2. Brad Blair, A&M,
15-0; 3. Greg Hackney, Texas, 14-6.
(Only three men cleared qualifying
height).
Shot Put: 1. Dana LeDuc, Texas,
62-6%; 2. Bishop Dolegiewecz, Texas
60-5%; a Ken Stadel, Rice, 56-5; 4.
Don Randall, SMU, 53-1%; 5. Craig
Carter, A&M, 51-2%.
Long Jump: 1. John Berry, Texas,
23-5%; 2. Mike Shivers, Baylor, 2ai; |
3. Ricky Thompson, Baylor, 2ai; 4.
Nate Robinson, Texas, 22-11; 5. Steve
Pritchett, Tech, 22-1.
Two-Mile Relay: 1. (Carlos Cribbs,
John Hoover, Paul Stevens, Mark Law
less); 7:54.8; 2. Texas (Paul Craig, John
Craig, Bill Doldapp, Rudolph Griffith),
7:54.9; 3. Tech (Luther Mays, Terry
Pendleton, Mark Freeman, Hugh
Jones); 4. A&M (Ron McGonigle,
Jacob Yemme. Adolph Tinaan. Pat
Bradley) 7:58.0; 5. Houston (James
Newton, George Behrens, David
Brennan, Wayne Brennan); 8:00.5.
800-Yard Dash: 1. Niall
O'Shaughnessy, Arkansas, 1:56.8; 2.
Mark Klonower, Texas, 1:57.1; 3. Phil
McClendon, 1:57.5; 4. Sonny Rollo,
Baylor, 1:57.6; 5. Jose Baez, Houston,
1:58.7.
Two-Mile Run: 1. Tim Patton,
Texas, 9:15.9; 2. Jeff Wells, Rice,
9:17.8; 3. Tom Birch, Houston,
9:22.1; 4. Ron Hendee, Arkansas,
9:22.2; 5. Bill Brodhead, Houston,
9:23.9.
Mile Relay: 1. Texas (Kerry Smith,
David McKee, Billy Jackson, Don
Sturgal), 3:19.9; 2. A&M (Horace
Grant, Gerald D'Ambrosio, Doug
Brodhead, Sammy Dierschke), 3:20.4;
3. Houston (Wayne Johnson, Mike
Williams, Larry Gnatzig, Freddie
Lewis), 3:21.8; 4. Tech (Joe Aldridge,
Randal Hall, William Pierson, Tony
Harris), 3:22.1; 5. Arkansas (Robert
Owens, Steve Hall, Rex Guynn, Jerry
Smith), 5:23.3.
Point totals: Texas 96, Baylor 43,
Arkansas 21, A&M 26, SMU 15,
Houston 14, Rice 12, Tech 10.
SUSAN JOHNSTON prepares for a dive in becoming
the first woman to compete for A&M in a Southwest Con
ference sanctioned sport. The 19-year-old freshman dove
even though she had suffered a sprained ankle earlier in
the week. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
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The A&M swimming team split
a couple of dual meets but pro
duced a milestone when a 19-
year-old Susan Johnston became
the first woman ever to compete
for Texas A&M in a Southwest
Conference sanctioned event.
The Aggies were defeated by
the Texas Longhorns in Austin
Friday night but rebounded to
defeat the Rice Owls, 94-19, in a
Saturday afternoon meet at P. L.
Downs Natatorium.
Johnston’s debut proved to be
a bit inauspicious as she was
edged out of the money by Rice’s
Mary Sharpe in the one-meter
diving. Sharpe was the first wo
man to compete a SWC sport
a month ago but Saturday was
the first time two women com
peted against each other in the
conference’s 60-year history.
In Austin, senior co-captain
Steve Prentice won both the 200-
yard individual medley and 200-
yard backstroke with a record-
breaking performance in the I.M.
His time of 2:00.41 broke Lester
Hamann’s 2:00.72 record set last
year and his 1:58.4 in the back-
stroke came within one tenth of
a second of breaking the school
record for that distance, set by
Prentice last year.
Doug Meaden took the 100-
yard freestyle in 48.66 and was
second in the 200-yard freestyle
with a time of 1:47.34.
Scott Jones and Bill Cunning
ham placed 1-2 in the 50-yard
freestyle while Cunningham plac
ed second in the 100-yard free
style and Steve Moore placed
third in the 200-yard breast
stroke.
Saturday all eyes were on
Johnston as only two members of
A&M’s traveling squad swam
against the Owls.
Despite the lack of big names,
the Aggies still managed to win
12 of 13 events, Rice’s Fred Kent’s
500-yard freestyle victory, break
ing the Aggie dominance.
“I am pleased with the way it
turned out,” said Aggie coach
Dennis Fosdick. “We wanted to
make some progress and we did
that. We still have two hard
weeks of workouts ahead of us
before we start tapering for the
conference meet.”
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