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
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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
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led in quite a few more points
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are at home, Smith is right there
watching them and rooting for
them. Otherwise you’ll find him
watching the action on TV. At
49, Smith loves the sport more
than ever.
Let’s go back a bit to Septem
ber of 1981. The Russian Na
tional team beats Team Canada
for the Canada Cup in Mon
treal, and Smith, viewing the fin
al game on the tube in Win
nipeg, sees Canada’s Prime
Minister, Pierre Trudeau, and
Alan Eagleson, hockey promo
ter and head of the NHL Play
ers’ Association, present the
Cup to the Soviets’ team captain.
Bright and early the next
morning, Smith woke up and
put on the news. 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.”
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