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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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Bears and the Aggies split points to
leave the Longhorns atop the heap. •
The Aggies stole points in the
high jump and the 440 inter
mediates that really made things a
bit easier for the Orange, but the
closeness of the meet offered ex
citement to the 3,500 spectators.
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.
Thomas said the meet and A&M s
third place finish didn’t discourage
his hopes for the future. “They just
had too many guns, said Thomas of
Texas and Baylor. “Well be all
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