Ags go to NCAA meet
With 4 individual entrants and relay
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975
Page 9
By MIKE BRUTON
Sports Editor
Coach Charles Thomas will take
qualifiers in three individual events
and one relay race to Provo Utah
this week to compete in the meet of
the swiftest against the finest talent
in the land at the NCAA Track and
Field Championships.
A&M will throw a one-two punch
in the 120-year high hurdles with
All-SWC hurdler Scottie Jones and
Shifton Baker. Brad Blair will com
pete in the polevault and all
purpose sprinter Doug Brodhead
will compete in the 220-yard dash to
round out the individual qualifiers.
The Aggie s 440-yard relay four
some with the exception of Robert
Harris, who injured himself at prac
tice, will also hit the cinders with
hopes of grabbing a top spot among
the nation’s best sprinters. Compet
ing will be; Chuck Butler,
Brodhead, Gerald D Ambrosio
and Ray Brooks.
Jones, three-winner of his spe
cialty in the conference, is no
stranger to national competition as
he has been to the NCAA meet for
the past two years. Jones has a
career best of 13.5 but has been
bothered the majority of this season
by an injury to his right hip. His best
for this season came two weeks ago
when he glided to a record-setting
13.7 in the prelims and finals of the
SWC meet after being out of action
since February. It appears as if he is
getting his winning form back and
he should score points for the. Ag
gies.
Tri-captain Baker, who has been
A&M’s most consistent point-getter
this year, is only a step away from
his cohort as he turned in a 13.8
time in Lubbock two weeks ago. He
has been steadily improving this
spring and appears to be set for a
peak performance at Provo. Baker’s
times have stayed around 14 sec
onds most of the season but in re
cent weeks he has recorded 13.9s
and a 13.8.
Blair will be A&M’s lone entry in
the field events. He had a best this
season ofT6 feet, seven inches. Blair
was dethroned at this spring’s SWC
meet by Longhorn vaulter David
Shepherd. He will have to get back
to his early season form to score in
this highly competitive meet.
Right in the midst of the heat will
be another A&M track tri-captain,
Brodhead, who will compete in the
blazing 220. And I do mean, BLAZ-
1NG. Brodhead described last
year’s NCAA 220 in one word, “un-
Balt sports
Doug Brodhead will face the nation’s fastest sprinters in the 220-yard dash.
No mouth ever turned us
away.
Have a
Barrel of
Fun.
godly ”. “Last year sixth place was
20.6,’’ he added.
Two of Brodhead’s main oppo
nents in last year’s 220 will be back
to plague him again. Southern
California’s James Gilkes, who
flashed to a wind-aided 19.9 and
Tennessee’s Reggie Jones, who
finished second behind him at 20.0
will be at Provo to put a little zip in
the 220-yard sprint. Brodhead has
a best this year of 20.8, which he
posted in a track meet at his
hometown, Lafayette, Louisiana.
Brodhead said he was more con
cerned with trying to get a good
place in the sprint relay. “I think we
can place in the 440 relay, if we get
good handoffs. We could’ve run bet
ter than 40.1 in conference but
Robert Harris and I had a bad hand-
off, ’ the A&M senior commented.
The 440-yard relay will be a hot
event with USC leading the field
with a best of39.3 this spring. Other
top contenders in this event will be
Kansas, UCLA, Tennessee, Kansas
and two SWC teams Texas and
TCU. Brodhead also said other var
iables may help the Aggie’s chances
in the sprint relay. “Sometimes it’s
hard to keep a team together at na
tionals,’ because school is out and
many of the athletes are homesick
and often many teams drop out of
relay events.
The A&M quarter relay will have
two freshmen, who will experience
national caliber competition for the
first time. Oddly enough, they will
begin and end the race with Butler
coming out of the blocks, replacing
Harris and Brooks anchoring.
Brooks has done a reputable job
of anchoring the quartet this season.
He picked up a few yards on com
petitors in the SWC meet a couple
of weeks ago and really finished
strong. “It’s just another race,’’ said
Brooks in reference to this being his
initial trip to the land of the speed
demons. “I’m glad to have the for
tune to be able to compete against
such talented people, he added.
The six A&M thinclads along with
coaches Thomas and Ted Nelson
will leave for Provo today.
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