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Show SUSC Thinclads enter RMAC Meet should do well with our standout individuals. We don't expect anyone, however, to be mounting any serious challenges to Adams State," Adams said. With the possible exception ex-ception of the javelin, Southern Utah State College's track team should I get some points in many different events, but not , very many in a particular event this week in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Con-ference meet. The RMAC championships will be held Saturday in Pueblo, Colorado, with University of Southern Colorado serving as the host school. "We should do pretty good in the field events, but in most other areas we lack any real depth," Boyd Adams, SUSC coach explains. ex-plains. Adams figures that the Thunderbirds have a chance to capture first places in the javelin (Robert Shirts), pole vault (Bruce Bryan), high , jump (Brett Bell), shot put (Joe Wells), and possibly the 1500 meters (Keenan Hart). "Everyone figures thatj Adams State will be the'' runaway team champion with Southern Colorado given the best chance for second place," Adams says. "If everything went right for us we could finish third or possibly even second." The javelin should be SUSC's strongest event. In addition to Shirts, who has a toss of over 234 feet, the Thunderbirds have potential point winners in Glen Chapin and Wade Manning in the javelin. Other events where SUSC could easily score well-but will probably not win-are the 5000 meters (Hart), the 800 (Eric Houle and Jim Deakin), the discus (Wells), the long jump (Shirts), intermediate in-termediate hurdles (Rick Palmer), and maybe in the 400 meter relay. A pair of indoor ail-American ail-American distance runners from Adams State coupled with Hart could make the 1500 meter race the most exciting of the day. Last week at the Wildcat Invitational in Ogden, perform a'ric e s w e r e generally subpar 'for the Thunderbirds, with" a "few exceptions. Bell broke out of a mild slump in the high jump with u (i-8 jump. His best this season is 6-10. Hart ran his first 5000 meter race of the year and clocked 15: 15 to place fourth. In spite of high winds, Bryan placed third in the pole vault, even though he cleared only . 15 feet, 18 inches below his season's best. "We are looking forward to the conference meet; we |