Bulldog Track Team Gets Another Victory

By LYN PUSEY
Journal Staff


Journal Photo by Bob Pusey. SPRINGBROOK'S TIM GOODE came from behind to fight off the kick of Magruder's Carey Judd to win the distance medley relay in 10:48.9 at the fifth annual Woodward Relays. Goode, who also won the steeplechase, led his team to a 31-point lead over Churchill before the Bulldogs used their field event strength to recapture the title they'd won in 1975.

Churchill's track team has some sort of hold on the Woodward Relays, a hold that has brought it the championship in three of the meet's five years.

The Bulldogs, who are monopolizing AA sports in general, used their field event teams' victories to edge out Springbrook, 60-59, last Saturday. Defending champion Georgetown Prep was a close third with 53 points.

The sunny, relatively calm day was a perfect one for record-breaking performances - seven in all in the boys 14-event meet - and Churchill had two of them in the field events to clinch the title at day's end.

MARK SAGEHOLM, Chuck Heidel and Brian Holloway shattered their own discus record of 412 feet set a year ago (with John Clark in the trio for Sagerholm) with a combined effort of 434-03 1/4. Chris Darling, Dave Garnitz and Andy Lee topped the pole vault mark with 36 combined feet. The Bulldogs also won the triple jump (Eric Smith, Mike Latora and Jim Engel) for their only other victory of the day.

Kennedy won the girls' team title, edging out Walter Johnson, 42-40, on the strength of two record-setting short distance teams - Patty Whang, Laura deNobel, Mary Pingitore and Janet Connor in the 440 (51.4) and Mary Donfor, deNobel, Pingitore and Connor in the 880 (1:47.6).

Runner-up WJ set the other two girls records of the day: Diana Martin, Terry Kane, Martha England and Joan Geibel in the mile (4:06.8) and Kane, England, Martin and Geibel in the sprint medley (4:17.6), both efforts besting records set last year by Kennedy.

B-CC won the girls' two-mile relay and Northwood the shuttle hurdles while Churchill - who else? - won the field event relay, the newest addition to the Woodward meet.

SPRINGBROOK, winner of the second Woodward meet, had jumped to an early lead in the boys' competition because of its superior running skills, winning the 880 (Steve Guiliani, Percy Baynes, Todd Hixon and Rufus Cannon) in record-breaking time (1:30.6) and the distance medley (Kevin Tracy, Bill Butler, Lucien Cox and Tim Good) with Good out-running Magruder's Carey Judd on the final curve to win by just eight-tenths of a second. Good also won the steeplechase, an event run at the end of the competition that does not count in the team standings.

The Blue Devils were also among the top three in the three other relays, failing to place only in the two-mile and sprint medley, both events won by Georgetown Prep, the latter in record-breaking time (3:31.6) by Bill Plank, Mike Maier, Dave Saunders and John Donegan. The Little Hoyas also won the shot put and the mile relay.

Woodward, which shared the team title with Churchill int he meet's opening year, won the high jump with John Grimes, Treg Scott and Paul Butler breaking the meet record by four inches with and 18-2 effort.

The other records broken were by Paint Branch in the 440 (Kevin Moore, Stirling Phillips, Giles Hunter and Mark Shaw with a 43.3) and by Richard Montgomery in the shuttle high hurdles (Tim Downs, John Mulhern, Greg Smith and Dave Crump turning a 1:03.2).