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Aggies, Bears show strength THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1975 Page 7 Texas wins fourth straight track title By MIKE BRUTON Sports Editor The Aggies, Bears and Longhorns completed their vicious cycle Saturday in Lubbock as Texas chalked up their fourth consecutive Southwest Conference track and held title. In three of the major SWC sports this school year, Baylor, Texas and A&M have directly or indirectly caused each other to win a champ ionship. In football the surprising Bears grabbed the crown when the Horns knocked the Aggies off. Baylor upset a very good Texas Tech basketball team to put A&M in the driver’s seat leaving only Texas be tween them and a championship. And Saturday was a topper as the They say the third time’s a charm. Scottie Jones became a member of the elite group of three-time SWC champions by winning the 120-yard high hurdles in Saturday’s meet. 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Longhorn track coach Cleburne Price said, “The high jump and in termediates really hurt (Baylor) them.’’ The Texas mentor also named Saturday’s victory as being better than the run-a-way title that the Horns acquired last spring. “This is our best conference champ ionship as far as I’m concerned, commented Price. Texas led the meet from the out set collecting 28 points in the field events with superb efforts by Dana LeDuc, Jim McGoldrick and javelin-thrower Marty Petermann who competed with a pulled groin muscle. LeDuc won the shotput with a toss of 63-2M>, with McGol drick grabbing a third place to go along with his win in the discus. Petermann heaved the spear to a lifetime best to win the javelin event. When Petermann unseated champion Bill Newton, who got third in the competition, a trend was set and many champions fell to determined challengers. A&M’s Lynn Bryd cleared the bar at 6-10, leaving champion Kevin Delorey of Baylor tied with Tech’s Bryant Huckaby for second place. David Shepherd of Texas, who vaulted ex tremely well the latter part of the season, spoiled Aggie Brad Blair s bid to repeat as a winner when he took the polevault at a height of 16-4. Blair finished in fourth place behind two other Longhorn vaul- ters Randy Lewis and Don Lee, who played follow the leader with Shepherd. A&M’s Doug Brodhead led the field in the quarter until he was pas sed by Baylor’s Tim Son and Mark Collins about 40 yards from the string. Brodhead s lifetime best of 46.6 wasn’t enough to hold off the charging Bears with Son winning in 46.3 seconds. “My legs felt dead and I didn’t have any lift coming down the home stretch. I just felt tired and I couldn’t hold them off, said defending champion Brodhead. After a 1-2 finish in the 440 the Bears once again found themselves in challenging position and they stayed right on Texas’ back until the gun fired starting the 220 yard dash. Prior to the race the Bears trailed the Horns, 83-80, but Overton Spence stayed with the trend and gunned down favored Bill Collins to win the 220 with a 20.8 clocking. With only the 3-mile and the mile relay left to be run and with Baylor’s lack of a contending 3-miler, the Longhorns had virtually clinched their fourth straight track title. Texas’ distance ace Jesse Mal donado finished third in the 3-mile behind Jeff Wells of Rice and Arkan sas’ Randy Melaneon to pick even more points before that final excit ing event — the mile relay. And thanks to the Baylor Bears, it was exciting. The Baptists won the mile relay finishing 30 yards from the nearest competitor in a fine time of 3:07.5. When the dust settled and it was all over the Longhorns were on top with 101 points, Baylor had 90, Texas A&M 67 and Rice 62. It had been the most exciting SWC track meet since 1971 when Rice nipped A&M by a half point, winning 60y 2 -60. ’ The Aggies performed extremely well, though finishing third. Coach Charles Thomas and assistant coach Ted Nelson both expressed how pleased they were with the perfor mance of the whole A&M track team. But there was one young man who they were particularly pleased with. Scottie Jones became one of few three-time SWC champions as he tied the record that he set in the preliminaries at 13.7 to win the 120-yard high hurdles. “Unbelieva ble, said Nelson of Jones, who has only run three or four races this sea son because of a hip injury. Jones credited his winning per formance to staying in shape through doing stretch exercises. “My strategy was to get out in front and stay there and I did ... I got a good start. I’ve done no running, no hurdling since February and have stayed in condition through doing stretching exercises, said Jones. Shifton Baker, who has probably been A&M’s most consistent point getter, finished second behind Jones at 13.8 in Texas A&M’s most impressive showing at 60th running of the SWC meet. 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