Monday, February 3, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13
Barnes’shots lead Ags at track meet
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s track
team, led by freshman shot putter
Randy Barnes, produced its best re
sults of the year this past weekend at
the Dallas Times Herald Invitational
indoor meet.
The Aggies collected two first-
places, two seconds and three third-
place finishes against the 10-team
field which included two other
Southwest Conference teams, Texas
and Houston.
The 6-foot-4!/2, 285-pound Bar
nes won the shot put with a throw of
63-feet, S 3 /* inches, making him the
third-best shot putter in A&M his
tory.
“Barnes did his all-time best,”
A&M Head Track Coach Charlie
Thomas said. “Randy’s really com
ing on strong.”
Triple jumper Francisco Olivares,
a senior from Mexico City, won the
event with a jump of 49-1 l 3 /*. Oli
vares’ mark was the longest jump in
A&M history, breaking the record
A&M’s Francisco Olivares
placed first in the triple jump.
set by Johnny Hector (49-lO 3 /*) in
1982.
The Ags came close to three other
first-place finishes.
In the 60-yard dash, Floyd Heard
was barely edged out of first by .01
seconds. Heard settled for second-
place with a time of 6.27 seconds.
Ian James qualified for the NCAA
national meet with a second-place
A&M’s Randy Barnes won the
shot put event in Dallas.
finish in the long jump. James was
leading the field with a jump of 25-2
Va, but passed on the last of three
jumps because he was afraid of re
injuring his hamstring.
Texas’ Eric Metcalf won the event
with a jump of 25-3'/t — only a half
inch farther than James’ effort.
Three high jumpers all jumped 7-
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feet, including A&M’s Ernie Men
dez. However, Mendez missed on
more attempts than the other two
jumpers — Oklahoma’s James
Phipps and Texas’ John Shelton.
Phipps took first-place, Shelton was
second and Mendez finished third.
The Aggies got another fine per
formance from their mile-relay
team, which took third-place at the
collegiate meet. Kendrick Wesley,
Gary Pervis, Maurice Holt and
Heard ran the mile in 3 minutes,
17.31 seconds, which qualified the
team for the world-class meet.
Thomas said the relay team im
proved its time at the evening meet,
although it did not place.
Freshman Matt Dunn, who won
the 880-yard dash at last week’s LSU
Invitational, ran a longer distance in
Dallas, placing third in the 1,000-
yard run.
Two Aggies placed in the 60-yard
high hurdles, Lawrence Felton
(third) and Rickey Alexander (fifth).
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