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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1974
Jones, Peterek eye title defense
in conference meet
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By TED BORISKIE
Assistant Sports Editor
Scottie Jones and David Peterek
have two things in common.
First, they are both defending
champions for the Southwest Con
ference Track and Field Meet to be
held at the Rice track Saturday. Sec
ond, they are both the wrong size for
their events.
Jones, tipping the scales at 5-9 and
163 pounds, won the 120-yard high
hurdles in 13.5 last year, t\yo-tenths
of a second faster than the confer
ence record. The time didn’t go into
the books as a record as the wind was
blowing at 6.3 mph, two miles over
the limit.
Jones, supposedly too small to get
over the hurdles easily, compensates
whatever time he loses straining to
get over the barriers with a blazing
fast start and finish.
“I’m usually the first one out of the
blocks,” said Jones, “and I know that
if I’m even with someone over the
last hurdle, I can outrun him or out
stretch him at the finish.”
A high school all-America at Hous
ton Elmore High, Jones Was not
widely recruited even though he re-
Hurdler, vaulter defending champs
corded a 13.5 in the highs and a 37.4 think I can get off a good time, ” he
in the 330-yard intermediate hur- said, “but I’ve never had a chance to
dies. Obviously many colleges didn’t
believe he could adapt to the three-
inch taller college hurdles because of
his lack of physical stature.
EXAS
ASM
David Peterek
Scottie Jones
“I had a little trouble this year,”
said Jones. “I sort of fell into a slump
where nothing was working right. I
got so discouraged I almost wanted
to quit. I don’t think I ran very well at
the big three (Texas, Kansas, Drake
Relays).’’
Few people could fault Jones’ per
formances, however, as he finished
fourth at all three meets, twice re
cording a 13.6 clocking. He was the
highest SVVC finisher in all three.
Earlier this year, Jones set a goal of
13.4 for his time this season but now
he thinks he can go even faster.
“I feel like I can run a 13.2 this
year,” said Jones, “but not on the
Rice track. It’s a slow track and I’ve
never run very fast there.”
Jones also expressed an interest in
trying the 440-yard intermediate
hurdles next year.
“I ran a 37.4 330 in high school so I
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find out. I think running the longer
race will be good training for the
highs, anyway.”
Peterek has got much the same
problem as Jones; only in reverse.
He’s too big to be a pole vaulter.
Peterek is quick to point out that,
at 6-3 and 185 pounds, he is rela
tively the same size as pro pole vaul
ter Steve Smith, who has few peers
of any size in the event.
Hailing from Gonzales, where he
won regionals with a 14-6 vault,
Peterek was a walk-on as a freshman
in 1972.
In his rookie year, he cleared 15-0
and finished fifth in the SWC meet,
earning him his first track letter.
Last year, he was the suprise of the
SWC meet in Austin, clearing 16-0
to take the championship away from
defending titlist Bill Smalley of Texas
on fewer misses. He also defeated
two-time NCAA champ Dave
Roberts of Rice as Roberts passed to
16-0 and then failed to clear on any of
his three attempts. However it read,
it still meant bringing home the pole
vault title to College Station.
For a while this year, it appeared
that Peterek’s success may have all
been a fluke as he was unable to clear
anything over 15-0 through the first
three months of the season. On May
2 in a quadrangular meet in Austin,
Peterek began showing signs of the
old form as he won his first meet of
the year, vaulting 15-6 and handing
Texas’ David Shepherd his first de
feat by a SWC vaulter. The following
weekend at Baylor, he qualified for
the NCAA meet by clearing 16-3,
just three inches short of the A&M
record.
“I was never discouraged this year
when I wasn’t vaulting well,” said
Peterek. “I knew I was doing some
things wrong but I saw that I was
doing enough other things right that
if I kept working at it, sooner or later
I could put it all together. That’s
what I’m doing now. ”
Suddenly, Peterek is a vaulter to
be reckoned with, capable of defeat
ing anybody in the conference. If he
wins again this year, one thing is for
certain. It won’t be a surprise.
“I think I can clear 17-0 this year, ”
said Peterek, “but I might have to
get a bigger pole. However, I’m pre
pared to go 16-6 on the one I’ve got
because that’s what I think it’ll take
for conference.”
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