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National track-power A&M? You bet.
Texas A&M, powered by a surprise first-place
finish in the 200-meter dash by Floyd Heard and
a second in the 400-meter relay, finished sixth at
the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Champion
ships in Indianapolis last weekend.
A&M was one of four SWC schools which
finished the meet in the top six. Southern
Methodist, despite poor 100- and 200-meter per
formances by standout freshman Roy “Robot”
Martin, won the 400 relay to edge Washington
State 53-52.
Texas came in third with 47 points, while
Arkansas, the defending champion, and Alaba
ma tied for fourth with 35.
A&M scored 31 points.
“With a little luck at all, we really could have
been up there,” A&M Track Coach Charlie Tho
mas said.
Part of the luck that didn’t go the Aggies’ way
was a sub-par performance by freshman Randy
Barnes in the discus.
Barnes, who holds the year’s longest shot put at
71 feet, 9'A inches, dropped out of the shot put
competition because of a nagging injury to his
right hand.
Although the injury doesn’t hinder him when
throwing the discus, Thomas said Barnes just
didn’t have his heart in the discus competition.
“He watched the shot put qualifying the day
before,” Thomas said, “and it got him fired up.
He wanted to be in there with them. It got him
down the next day for the discus.”
While Barnes had his problems, the rest of the
Aggie freshmen, especially the sprint and relay
corps, were excelling.
Heard and roommate Stanley Kerr both had
won their 200 trials, but it was Heard all the way in
the finals to become the first A&M athlete to win
an NCAA outdoor sprint title.
He also was the first Aggie to win an NCAA
outdoor meet event since 1980 when Randy Hall
took the pole vault.
being the fourth fastest clocking in collegiate his
tory. According to experts from Track and Field
News, it also is the fastest time by an all-freshman
squad.
The Aggies’ next best finish was a school-
record fifth-place 3:03.85 in the 1600-meter relay
with the team of Kendrick Wesley, Maurice Holt,
Matt Washington and Gary Pervis.
Holt brought the Aggies back into the race on
the second leg with a split time of 45.3 after Wes
ley came off the blocks a bit slow at 46.5
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hind,” Holt said, “so I felt like I had to make it
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Heard finished with a time of 20.34 seconds,
.09 faster than runner-up Atlee Mahorn of Cali-
fornia-Berkeley. Kerr was last in the nine-man
field with a 20.83.
“I heat'd them (the other runners) back there,”
Heard said of the race. “You always hear them. I
just kept going those last 50 meters. I couldn’t
wait to see the (finish) line.”
Holt said A&M would have finished higher
except for a couple bad handoffs and a slowed
Pervis due to pulled hamstrings.
The Aggies also picked up a pair of sixth places
as Craig Calk set a school mark of 49.60 in the 400
intermediate hurdles and Heard had a 10.27 in
the 100-meter dash. Kerr finished seventh in the
100.
Just over an hour after Heard’s win, he and
Kerr teamed with fellow freshmen Archie
Roberts and Lawrence Felton to post a second-
place time of 38.63 in the 400 relay behind Texas
Christian’s national collegiate record of 38.46.
A&M’s 38.63 set a school record in addition to
A&M’s final point came in the long jump com
petition as Canadian Ian James leaped to a dis
appointing eighth-place finish with a 25-8 l A
effort. Texas’ Eric Metcalf won the event with a
27-0'A.
A&M senior Francisco Oliveras was three in
ches shy of finishing eighth in the triple jump as
he had a 52-4'/a. Kansas State’s Kenny Harrison
edged Houston’s Frank Rutherford by '/a inch to
win the event with a 56-0.
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HOUSTON (AP) —The Houston
Rockets came home Monday without
the NBA championship, but that did
not discourage the more than 500
cheering fans who greeted the team
at Intercontinental Airport.
won their 16th NBA title Sunday
when they defeated the Rockets 114-
97 to capture the best-of-seven series,
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port terminal as the Rockets de
planed. They shouted Rocket cheers
and waved banners of encouratge-
ment.
“You’ve been the best fans in the
NBA, and next year, we will come
back with fire in our eyes and the
NBA championship on our minds,”
reserve center Jim Petersen told the
crowd.
Rockets star Akeem Olajuwon,
who had predicted victory in Hous
ton, left the fans with one more fore
cast.
The Boston Celtics, heavy favo
rites from the start of the title series.
“We proved this year that we be
long, and next year we’re going to do
it,” Olajuwon said. “And we are still
unbeatable.”
“Boston’s getting old and we’re
getting better,” said Bo Farrill, 22,
who had waited four hours for the
team to arrive. “We’ve been here
since 10:30 this morning and it was
well worth the wait.”
Hundreds of fans jammed the air-
Mayor Kathy Whitmire and some
city council members also were on
hand to welcome the team home.
“Here are some people who have
made Houston proud,” Whitmire
said.
Sunday’s blowout followed an
emotional Houston victory in the
fifth game when the Rockets erupted
following a fight between Ralph
Sampson and Boston’s Jerry Sich-
ting.
But the Rockets were punchless in
the finale, with Sampson scoring only
eight points.
“When you ain’t got it, you ain’t
got it,” Sampson said.
Sampson said the brawl in the fifth
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