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Northeastern is flexible. Ay, there's the rub. With the kind of versatility the Huskie runners show, it's anybody's guess where these people are going to pop up on Saturday. There's Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs...
More Crimson fireworks came in the half-mile run and the discus throw. In the half-mile event, Harvard's John Chafee ran a close third behind Mark Lech of Northeastern, who was conceded to be the overwhelming favorite, according to Harvard coach Bill McCurdy, and Ron Taylor of B.C. "Chafee stuck to Lech like he was part of his uniform," McCurdy said...
...Huskies ran first and second in the 1000-yard run, the mile and the two-mile. The outlook looked even bleaker when Northeastern's Mack Lech upset Harvard captain Joel Peters in the 600-yard...
...mile relay was extremely tight in the first three legs with Harvard. North-eastern and Boston College all bunched at the front. In the anchor leg BC's lanky Keith Francis powered his way by Peters and Lech followed, nipping Peters for second place and the meet championship...
Northeastern's Bob Lech stormed past Joel Peters in the last 50 yards of the mile relay Saturday to wrest the Greater Boston collegiate track championship from Harvard for only the second time in the last 12 years...