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Shorter forced the pace from the start, beating off successive challenges from Keith Colburn, previously undefeated Roy Shaw and captain Doug Hardin. Hardin and Shorter battled step for step over the last three miles of the five-mile course, until the Yale pulled away several hundred yards from the finish...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti, fresh from Tuesday's Greater Boston victory, and steadily improving Keith Colburn can be expected to join Shaw and Hardin in a battle against Shorter and Downey for individual laurels this afternoon. Behind them Tom Spengler, Tim McLoone, and John Enscoe are good bets to outrun rival backup...
...miles, out-galloped Hoss to the wire for third place, finishing with a three-second margin in 22:40. Close behind the B.U. captain was Harvard senior Tim McLoone, McLoone, reestablishing himself as a contender for a slot in the Crimson top five, was never out of contact with Colburn, Spengler, and Hoss and finished strongly in his best race to date...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti sped to his first victory of the season, clocking the third best time ever run on Franklin Park's "short course" (4.7 miles). Pottetti took the lead from teammate Keith Colburn just after the half-way point and bounded away from the field with an effortless stride to cross the tape with a fifteen-second lead...
...Colburn who controlled the pace for most of the first two miles. Leading the pack through a brisk 4:28 mile, the flying junior dualed B.U.'s Pete Hoss for the lead throughout the second, with Pottetti close behind. Just before the two-mile mark, Colburn charged up a hill "like a goddam maniac," in Coach McCurdy's words. Pottetti followed suit and Hoss was left in the dust ten yards back...