Word: minutemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Promising, that is, until lightning-quick Minutemen captain Al Skinner struck twice in the same spot in the second half. Skinner's quick scoring sprees broke the game open and UMass went on to 74-65 victory...
...that enabled them to grab the tenth through thirteenth places. These four spots shut out the number five man from UMass, Paul Broughtom. Had he been able to finish ahead of Harvard's Karl Tsigdines, Andy Cambell, Jim Hughes and Jeff Brokaw, the meet might have gone to the Minutemen...
Despite the boasts of the Irish, it was the UMass Minutemen that gave the Crimson the most serious competition, jumping out to a strong start. Harvard just edged UMass 27-30 in dual meet scoring while knocking off the Friars by a 23-38 count. Though Providence was touted as having more depth than the Minutemen, they managed to place just two runners in the top fifteen...
UMass copped the third and fifth spots as premier Minutemen runners and co-captains, Bill Gillan and Randy Thomas, sandwiched number four man Mike O'Shea of Providence. Harvard runners then came on strong to take six of the next eight spots, enough to edge out UMass in the dual-meet scoring...
Smith began his exploits in Friday's game with UMass at Fenway Park. The Minutemen jumped on Brayton in the first for a pair of runs on a double by UMass ace pitcher Mike Flanagan and a run producing single off the bat of Mike Koperniak. It looked bleak indeed until the fourth when, with Joe Sciolla on first, Jimmy Stoeckel blasted a shot over the famous Green Monster guarding Fenway's left field and indeed all the way across the street behind the park to tie the game...