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Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, February 6, 1984 Ags meet LSU; set records By BOB CASTER Sports writer BATON ROUGE, La. — It would be easy to just say the Texas A&M men’s track team placed fifth at the LSU Invita tional indoor meet, behind Au burn, Florida St., LSU and Baylor and leave it at that. It would be just as easy to say that as returning champions of the LSU Invitational, the Aggies just didn’t have what it took to give a repeat performance this year. But that really wasn’t the case. The Aggies didn’t bring home the bacon but they did have three more people meet qualifying standards for the NCAA indoor meet. The team also set four school records and an LSU field house record. Perhaps the most impressive performance of the meet was given by Aggie quarter-miler Tony Greir who clocked the fas test time ever recorded for the 440-yard dash in the LSU field house. His time of 46.90, which is also an A&M indoor record, broke the record of 47.2 set there by Willie Smith of Auburn in 1980. Smith went on to run a 44.50 .in the open 400-meters that same year. “Our top performance (Saturday) was by Grier,” A&M assistant track coach Ted Nelson PI SIGMA EPSILON National Business Fraternity New Member Orientation Meeting and Party Monday, February 6 7:30pm Room 130 Blocker Bldg. Any and all Business majors welcome! Come out and See what PSE is About! You just might like it! WATCH YOUR FAVO RITE SOAP OPERAS MTV FREE POOL VIDEO GAMES AND MORE ,<9, e ' - %° Mon. $1.50 Pitchers of Beer lues. Free Pool Tables Wed. 750 Burger oA Thur. $1.00 Bar Drinks j:\0W , ^*7. Fri. 4:00-8:00 Free Pool Sun. 750 Burger located in the Skaggs Center behind Texaco 'CC'' next to Music Express, University Drive said. “As far as I know, that’s the second fastest time in the nation. I think that if he had been in an outside lane instead of the inside he could have run it three- to four-tenths of a second faster.” On indoor tracks, the distance around the track is much shor ter making the turns tighter. Sam Seams, who has been the track coach at LSU for ten years, said Grier’s time Saturday was the fastest quarter-mile he had ever seen at the field house. Needless to say, Grier’s 46.90 qualified him for nationals. Also meeting NGAA qual ifying standards for the Aggies were Ghuck Perry in the high jump and Graig Moody in the 60-yard high hurdles. Perry won first place in the high jump with a third-jump effort of 7-3 1/4. Nelson said he felt that Perry was capable of jumping 7-5 this season. Moody’s third-place time of 7.29 in the high hurdles was not only enough to meet the NCAA stan dard but was also an A&M in door record. “I was proud of Craig Moody,” Nelson said. “He did a real good job in the high hur dles, but to get to NCAA I think he’ll have to run faster.” Just because someone makes the qualifying mark doesn’t mean that person will run in the national indoor meet. Only the top 20 qualifying times actually compete at nationals. Two other school records were also broken by Aggies Saturday. Arturo Barrios took first place in the two-mile run with a time of 8:49.32. And Andy Elliot finished second in the mile with a time of 4:07.37, just one one-hundreth of a second behind Baylor’s John Robinson. “Arturo did a good job in the two-mile,” Nelson said. “We’ll look for him to go the qualifying standard. The pace was just not fast enough for him (Saturday) — he had to do all the work. He was disappointed because he wanted to go the qualifying stan dard which is 8:40.” Also placing for the Aggies were Kurt Thome, third in the long jump; Tommy Alsbrooks, fourth in the 300; Aaron Ramirez, fifth in the two-mile; Todd Howard, sixth in the shot put and Des Kidd, sixth in the pole vault. The mile relay team which underwent considerable change because of sickness and injury, placed fourth with a time of 3:15.64. On that team were Chappelle Henderson, Bill Shel ton, Grier and Moody. In spite of the Aggies’ fifth- place overall finish, Nelson feels good about the way things went in Louisiana. “Winning the meet is impor tant,” he said. “Even though we won the meet last year, I think we had better individual per formances this year. We didn’t double many of our guys up like other schools did — we fell like it was important to get some good marks and try to qualify some people. I felt like we competed well for the people we had in there.” And that leads to another fac tor that figures into the Aggies’ overall performance — their current state of health. The Aggies could have possibly pul led in quite a few more points Un RAJE milt a 1 i80 nc Relied off “V* lhe re :o jtt<l Stat the iss rht the Jy filing ||nal Ob Thus, on meet on ^^ingprc Tic*;' S-"''' ipilitvTK ™ty dec « of \ ht BOB C Craig Moody flies through the 60-yard high hurdles in Baton Rouge this weekend. Moody’s time of 7.29 seconds in the high hurdles set an A&M indoor record. hateve [ight sa i defer iof foui In a ruli Comn s mar idians, acts, o ge the d give ality wit where consult “The K ate wh had the team been in better health. “Having people out is not un usual,” Nelson said. “But we’ve probably had more people sick than usual. tween First and lastplacerJ hundreths of a second- you’re not a hundred) healthy, it’s hard to bee live. Any injury to a iradj can lx* serious.” Jnited “Track is probably the har dest sport there is to keep every one well. The difference be- IARAJ1 ong-awaiti The Aggies travel lo next weekend and \ s.ivs they probably*onW,f"bV ( lull team. * S ofwo g official ge for ‘Hockey nut’ ends up Russian hero Johnsoi ngfor his United Press International WINNIPEG, Ganada — George Smith is “a hockey nut.” All he ever meant to do was set right what he felt was a terrible wrong. Even if it was against Russia. He did it. All by himself at first, thereby accomplishing more than all those SALT 2 talks put together, and ending up one of the biggest heroes in the Soviet Union. Smith owns and operates his own trucking business in Win nipeg, where he was born. He was crazy about hockey as a kid when his idol was little Bill Mosienko, the Ghicago Black Hawks’ Hall of Earner who once scored three goals in 21 seconds against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden and now runs a bowling alley in Winnipeg. 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He was shocked to hear Eagleson had called the police and kept the Soviets from taking the Cup out of the Mon treal Forum the night before. Eagleson felt that once the Rus sians got the cup lo the USSR, they’d never bring it back to Canada. “I was mad,” Smith said. “Here we are living in a country where we talk about what’s right and also the rights of others. They had beaten us fair and square.” Smith was irked over some thing else Eagleson had done as promoter of the series. “He came to Winnipeg and called us a bunch of cheaps kates,” said Smith. “Winnipeg is a workingman’s town. Eagleson wanted us to shell out $30 to watch the Finns play the Swedes at 3 o’clock on a weekday. You had to buy tickets to bad games like that to see a good one like, say, Czechoslovakia against Canada.” he decic Smith called thek w hich dro asking for the sports edit (3 hpeed t was told he was in Mi the day’s! where he had coveredth minute, 4' the night before. 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