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Merritt Wins 60

Maryland Wins ACC Indoor Meet

By STEVE GASKE

COLLEGE PARK - The
ACC Indoor Track
Championship ended
appropriately Sunday night.
With 12 events over and
everyone drifting towards the
door, Bill Hayes of Maryland
was the lone competitor on the
floor.

Paced by a four man sweep
of the pole vault, Maryland
won its 19th out of 20 ACC
Indoor Track Championships
by more than doubling the
score of its nearest competitor
and made it seem as if red
shirts were the only ones in the
meet times.

When North Carolina's
Danny Deacon missed at 15
feet, early in the evening, the
four Maryland vaulters were
left to spend all night fighting
it out between themselves
before Hayes made 16'6" to
set a new conference record.

Bill Goodman won the long
jump for the Terps with a
record 24'6½", beating Tar
Heel Hubert West at 24'2½".

Virginia finished sixth in
the team standings with 14
points, most of which were
scored by Kent Merritt who
successfully defended his 60
yard dash championship from
last year.

Despite only two weeks of
practice Merritt was able to
win every heat he entered and
managed to match his winning
time of 6.3 from last year in
both the semi-finals and the
finals.

Coach Lou Onesty
commented after Merritt's win
that "if he weren't playing
football and weighed around
165, no one in the country
would be able to beat him."

Harrison Davis is another
football player who could be a
star if he had more time to get
in shape. Davis barely failed to
qualify for the finals in the
high hurdles, but showed
enough natural talent for
someone who has only been
practicing about three or four
days to make people start
thinking.

Other Cavalier scorers were
Phil Meyer, Jerry Hart, and
Julian Solotrovsky.

Solotrovsky finished a
surprising fourth in the 600
with a time of 1:12.3, the same
as Maryland's third place
finisher Rod Cupka. Mike
Murphy of Duke won the event
in 1:10.9.

Jerry Hart was also
surprising, finishing fifth in the
1000. After being the last
person to make the finals on
the basis of time, Hart
managed an inspired 2:16.6
behind the duel for first
between Tar Heel teammates,
Reggie McAffee and Tony
Waldrop.

McAffee won the 1000, but
didn't run in the mile,
conceding first to Duke's Bob
Wheeler. After leading by
about 20 yards through most
of the second half of the race,
Wheeler started his final kick
late and was almost caught by
Waldrop in a tremendous come
from behind finish before
winning in 4:03.2.

Roger Beardmore and Scott
Eden crossed the line holding
hands to win the two mile for
the Blue Devils in 8:48.7.
Meyer was fifth for the
Cavaliers in 9:01.

The team scoring was
Maryland 81, North Carolina
36, Duke 31, Clemson 23, N.C.
State 16, Virginia 14, and
Wake Forest 7.