Word: gerkin
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...Crimson bettereds its 1982 fifty-place finish and avenged its narrow loss to Dartmouth two weeks ago in Boston but couldn't keep pace with the Midshipmen. After Junior Andy Gerkin's second-place finish, completing the five-mile course in 24:38.5 (7.4 seconds behind Dartmouth's Jim Sapienza), there was a long wait for the next Harvard harrier...
...edged Dartmouth, the score was 77-82, but it wasn't until the addition of all the scorers' places that they realized they had failed to catch Navy. It was all the worse for the Crimson since, said Co-Captain Felix Rippy, "No one with exception of Andy Gerkin had his best race today, and that's frustrating when you get so late in the season...
Harvard was led by Paul Gompers, who finished second to Tiger Gordon Christie, in 24:11. In third place was Harvard's Andy Gerkin, who ran well for the second week in a row. The Crimson's other scorers were co-captain Felix Rippy (24:37) in eighth place and Bruce Weber (24:58) in twelfth. Rippy finished only six seconds behind the fifth, sixth and seventh man, making the race closer than the score appears...
Dartmouth All-American Jim Sapienza won the race in 29:25, with Harvard sophomore Paul Gompers finishing 11 seconds later Other Crimson scorers were Andy Gerkin in fifth place (30:18), Peter Jelley in sixth (30:37), Rippy in eighth (31:04), and Cliff Sheehan (31:04). Shawn O'Neil finished as Dartmouth's fourth scorer just one second ahead of Rippy and Sheehan: if the Crimson pair had been ahead, the meet would have ended in a 30-30 deadlock...
Harvard will be led by sophomore Paul Gompers, and Co-Captains Felix Rippy and McNulty. The return this year of Bruce Weber and Gerkin after a year away from Cambridge should enhance the harriers chances of upsetting Dartmouth, as both have finished in the top eight in every meet so far this year...