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Show Coach Adams eager for spring track CKDAK CITY - The cross country season may have ended on less than a totally pleasing note lor Southern Utah State College, but already Coach BoycK Adams is eager tor the spring track season. Adams, who coaches both cross country and track, figures that snow during the race and slush on the course hurt SUSC's team chances in the combined NA1A District Seven and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference meet last week at Alamosa, Colorado. "We have a couple of runners who do much Ix-tter when the weather is good ; the rest of our people do about the same no matter what the condition," Adams explains. ex-plains. As almost everyone expected, Adams State dominated the meet, with live of the first six finishers. Robert Konrad, Western State, finished fourth to prevent a perfect 15 score by Adams State, the defending RMAC, District Seven, and national NAIA champion. Pat Porter was the individual in-dividual winner in 24:22. SUSC finished fifth in the meet with 155 points. The top T-Bird runners were Gordon Hyde (freshman, Salt Lake City) and Chad Jones (freshman, Kaysville). Hyde was 20th individually, in-dividually, and Jones finished 23rd. Following Adams State in the team standings were New Mexico Highlands, 57; Western State, 60; Southern Colorado, 116; Southern Utah, 155; Colorado Mines, 160; Metropolitan State, 179; and Eastern New Mexico, 226. "Several of our cross country people will be competing in track," Adams says. "We have some great individuals and if we don't lose anyone the best depth I've ever had on an SUSC track team. We should have the best track team at SUSC since the school moved into four-year competition." |