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Junior Karen Gray gave one of her best efforts of the season with an overall second place in the Pentathalon. Gray won the shot-put and long jump, took second in the hurdles and high jump, and third in the 880 to finish with 3024 points--her personal best by over 200 points--but not enough to best BC's Sue Goode who won with 3049 points...
Other Harvard performers continued their history of strong showings, which have contributed to twin victories in the team's past two meets. Shot-put sensation Kim Johnson made the finals in her event but was nosed out of the scoring by the competition. Lindy Yeagher and Wiley McCarthy ran good races in the 5000- and 10,000-meter runs, while Liane Rozzell cleared five feet, two inches in the high jump, not far below the winning height of five feet, six inches...
...coming apart as runners stumble, discus throwers suffer slipped discs, and pole vaulters cannot rise to the occasion. But there seems little doubt that the U.S. would have continued its domination of men's track events as well as taking several medals in the long jump, discus, shot-put and pole vault. American women rank among the world's fastest in the sprints, but a hamstring injury to Pan Am Games Champion Evelyn Ashford undermined U.S. hopes. Eastern Europeans would, as always, have car ried away most of the medals in distance and field events...
...meet itself, McCurdy predicted close struggles in the high jump, shot-put and mile, but was confident that his 2-0 squad would defeat the winless Eagles...
There were the not-so-good things; the Paul Sablock option shot-put in the first quarter, five carries all day for Wayne Moore, Fred Cordova's refusal to take a touchback on his interception, and of course, justifying a loss to Columbia when you haven't had to do so for seven years...