Harrier, capture 6tfl ,traigN. title Harding's harriers captured their sixth consecutive Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference cross country championship on November 5. Running a supposedly five-mile course at Magnolia's country club, the Bisons won their twelfth conference meet in fourteen years. Matthew Grate, a freshman runner from Waterloo, Ind., blazed to a second place finish for Harding with a time of 19:01, which was 48 seconds off the winning time of Mark Segovis from the University of Central Arkansas. Junior Marshall Grate came in fourth place, hot on Matt's heels with a 19:05. Three-year letterman Mark Galeazzi placed sixth, and the remaining men from the Bisons' top five - Phil Hostetler and Cliff Betts - finished 230 - CROSS COUNTRY among the top 15 runners in the meet. Coach Ted Lloyd commented, "We did not have a good race, because of some extenuating circumstances. The course was supposed to be five miles but was under four, and our runners didn't get any mile splits." Both Grate brothers and Galeazzi received All-Conference honors in the contest, and Harding was among the league schools that earned the right to represent the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' District 17 at the national meet in Kenosha, Wisc. Held at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside, the NAIA nationals were won by Edinboro State of Pennsylvania. Harding finished in 34th position in the team standings, with Galeazzi heading the list of Bison runners in 82nd place.
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