Show Student Life Wednesday February State opens track season few do well Utah track meets g at £ht's indoor onlet! 5 be rjnot -- Satiinlav Pocatello remembered fondly by if am especially they're from 'SU Few mllev ersit around the old aye with place in their at their feet W grandchildren fiasco at the d recall the indoor i-- Mnidome from teams that attracted 11 as far away as “ana da meet had one very First the strike against it snple inherent Indoor it uas held indoors a aces are a little like running rolier derby around your living awkward Tom they’re a little asd unnatural: the turns can be some-tang'- s jilt and treacherous bound to net knocked over i and for ally a human body jituleat least no one can slow pull over or nose lest he yet Indoor races are stampeded not on the basis of often decided but how iow well someone runs iell he throws a forearm slue er Compound these minor prospeed up torn 1 scratch his ems with the first-mejitters just a touch of flu and you of USU's Save the beginning which could explain iletnma in why only four Aggies placed him back to bis feet Marsh's time was 7 25 The M'qualify iny standard which eluded h Marsh by of a second last year is 7 Perhaps I'SP's most disappointing performance came from Pyboro who failed to place in the 80 and ran a slow time of 58 'J I’yboro was a natural favorite His credentials include two N( AA qualifications in his two years at L’SU two Niyerian national championships and third plate in the 1978 NCAA meet Uyboro may have run his yood race in his warm ups Three hours Indore his race began the always restless Uyboro beyan jogging and sprinting around the track for nearly a half-hou- r Several times he returned to the track between events and did more windsprmts He was never really in his race by the time it came around Doug Robinson placed fifth in a race with very physical 13 3 It resembled a a time of scene from the movie Slapshot one-tent- 1 1 pre-me- 600-yar- d 1 right from the starting gun as teammate Jim Hirchak slipped and fell to a knee Hirchak regained his composure and stayed with the jack but never able to yet out of the outside lanes Roth runners were cut off during the race and after several shoving incidents got caught in an impassable box of runners in a mad scramble for position in the final turn In an earlier heat Matt Montoya was just plain shoved off the track for a couple of steps The mile started the same way in fact the starter had to restart the race because a runner from Itah to the track before three steps had been run USU’s Mike Kelly ran a personal best 4 15 45 but still placed only sixth Things were more civil at times L'SU football players Jimmy Bryant and Ron Cassidy failed to place in a competitive dash despite running a fast 6 28 clocking Shot putter Martino Catalano belly-floppe- d d surprised even himself when he uncorked a personal best 54 feet 4 inches on his first throw of the from night But the Canada was unable to better that throw and had to settle for fifth place Kevin Blaisdell who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 440 last year on the same track with a 483 clocking faded to fourth in the stretch and finished in a slow 499 Bruce Dart placed sixth in the long jump His best effort was only 8 but that wasn’t surprising He hadn't seen a standard sand pit since last season The USU jumpers have been forced to jump into a foam-rubbhigh jump pit while in the temporary halls of the Spectrum Still that is better than no practice at all which was the predicament former Ag pole vaulter Jeff Marston faced Mar-sto- n had vaulted only three times in the last month prior to the meet With the fieldhouse under renovation Marston was forced into the tiny confines of the Iogan er 21-- 1978 Page 11 Recreation center But Marston found the facility too small to gain enough speed to propel his 5 frame over a cross bar 16 feet in the air To complicate matters a basketball post was bolted in the middle of the runway Never mind though Marston relied on his 10 years of experience for a third-plac- e finish He cleared 14 and 15 feet on his first attempts but dropped out of the 200-pou- competition because add the their events teams mores were five of top no fort-jatei- y tepL before the team arrived Minidome it encountered problems Isaiah Uyboro and Jim Even at the both top the team Marsh missed i) two minutes scorers for L'SU bus to Pocatello and had to drive tnl'gboro'scar o o o o l'Sl"s problems actually began early as last winter when the renovation of the fieldhouse was as until the delayed summer the runners work out around the 300-- y a rd carpeted recourse atop the Spectrum the e:ghtmen throw their implements in the snow and lift weiyhts --’the PE buildiny ami at least one pole vaulter lias foresaken the Ucan Recreation ( enter and inrpiy does not practice for the sseof longer liviny But no amount of could CORDS BELLS BOOT JEANS SUITS oTOPS o KID S JEANS o GAL S JEANS prai tiee have helped the Ayyies in thus affair unless it had included a iyiMastics course m floor exercise a basic course warm-u- p in techniques and Kung Ku Coming lessons for the final off 'arsh was inches behind "right second -- hur IJ h to be Ms run-M- precise About g ectdtbe from the finish M ”edat the tape it was fai He (“Jsh line no ole to Put of - executed a at full of the §mm ©if mm ODP TT® stumbled across just behind Wn regain his bal his hands to the f perfect sor speed on the I track that broi 4th North Shopping Center VKA 435 N 1st East (Next To Baskin Robbins) Logan 753 5044 of sore hamstrings In other words his lack of practice caught up with him USU could take solace in the fact that there were many lackluster performances On a d orange banked track that is regarded as one of the fastest indoor tracks in the world and that normally produce some kind of record weekly there was a conspicuous absence of record performances BYU’s Rob Nielson however entered an elite class by high jumping 4 which definitely will 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