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Track Team Captures Second
Straight In Old Dominion Win

By Mike DeCamps

Capturing every first place but
three, Virginia's trackmen ran up a
111-34 score against Old Dominion
Tuesday afternoon, and pushed
their dual meet record to 2-0 for
the season. The outclassed
Monarchs, whose track program
seems to be at a low point, simply
didn't have the manpower to
compete with a Cavalier team that
has given evidence in its first two
meets that it is one of the stronger
track teams the University has had
in years.

As usual, the Virginia team
scored strongly in the field events
and amassed an early
insurmountable lead. Co-captain
Mike Harvey, the meets leading
scorer with 15¼ points, easily
captured the broad jump with a
leap of 23′1¼″. Later the came back
and scored five more points with a
first place in the triple jump on a
leap of 42′9¾″.

Al Sinesky, the Cavaliers' top
weight man, tossed the shot 50′¾″
to take that event. Mike Wilkes
arrived late, but in time to take the
discus at 140′11″. Wilkes also
scored a first in the javelin by
chucking the old spear 169′8″.
Ham Myers captured the pole vault
with a jump of 13′6″, but didn't
get a chance to jump higher as the
event lasted way past the end of the
last running event.

Old Dominion scored their only
first place in the field events when
Terry Wright, one of the state's
premiere high jumpers, took that
event at 6′2″. The day's first
running event just proved another
first for Virginia as Ed Hardy ran
the 440 intermediate hurdles in a
time of 60.2 seconds.

The Cavaliers took the first of
the two relays as Mike Gamble,
Harvey, Jim Shannon, and Joe
Segal combined to win the 440
yard relay. Virginia's Mike Heagle
led a 1-2-3 sweep in the high
hurdles with a 15.3 clocking. After
this event, Greg Lane held off Old
Dominion's fine distance runner,
Pete Eagen, to take the mile with a
4:29.5 clocking. Heavy gusts of
wind began to prove troublesome
to the Cavalier runners in all of the
events, and consequently slowed
the times down.

This was evidenced again in the
440 as Virginia's Dick Morris could
not quite catch Old Dominion's
fast-starting Jerry Bocrie. In the
half mile the backstretch wind
slowed down an extremely
competitive race that was taken by
Virginia's Phil Stafford who just
edged out teammate Jim Link.

The Cavalier's Brew Barron
probably ran the best race of the
day recording a fine 9:46 two mile
off of an extremely fast last lap. In
the 220, Old Dominion took their
final first place of the day when
Bocrie got a quick start and flew
through the race in a time of 22.7
seconds. Dick Morris made up a
three yard deficit in the anchor leg
of the mile relay to lead the
Cavaliers to victory in the event
with a time of 3:29.3.

In the opening meet against
Springfield, which the Cavaliers
won 91-54, one school record was
broken and one was tied. Ham
Myers, having practiced only once
because of sickness, equalled the
pole vault mark at 14′4″ and went
on to clear the bar at the next
notch only to lose the official
record because of an insufficient
measure of the height.

Mike Wilkes, termed "a fierce
competitor" by Coach Lou Onesty,
required only one week's
preparation to whip himself into
good enough shape to hurl the iron
toothpick 209 ½″. Gene Engle's
1962 javelin record fell to the
converted basketball star, who also
competes in the discus and shot
put.

The record book has been
revised twice within the first week
of the '69 season and at that rate
should have a few more pages torn
out before the thinclads are
finished this year. Co-captain Mike
Harvey and Jim "Flea" Shannon
provide a potent one-two punch in
the long jump, and the 30-year-old
mile record of 4:15.7 could be
levelled by first-yearman Greg Lane
according to Onesty.