5 TRACK_ Fourth Place And Four N~w Records Four records fell last season to the fast feet and high jumping of the Harding College track team. Leaping 48-6, freshman Bruce Baldwin claimed first place in the AIC meet and rewrote the record books for the triple jump. Speeding around the track in the short sprints, Darryl Bassett ran a path that lead him to become one of the school's all-time top sprinters. A senior, Bassett set new school marks in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes with times of 10.68 and 21.42, respectively. Sophomore Perry Fraley vaulted 15-6 twice to set new marks in the pole vault and established himself as a top contender for 1979. Fraley finished fourth in the conference meet, hampered by a nagging injury incurred at the NAIA District 17 Relays in Kansas City, April 1 and 2. The Bison relay team of Bassett, Tim Flatt, Cliff Parker and Rich Collin ran a blistering 4l.8 in the 400-meter relay of the AIC meet to set a new school record in that department. Another relay team, made up of John Reece, Leon White, Parker and Bassett, had earned NAIA All-America honors with a third-place mile relay finish in the NAIA national indoor meet at Kansas City with 3:27.07. The foursome also set a new school indoor record of 3:25 in the qualifying race for that event. As the indoor season waned and the weather warmed, Coach Ted Lloyd and his tracksters approached the uofficial" outdoor season with mixed thoughts. They believed that, although they were not rated among the favorites, they still had a shot at the AIC crown as a "surprise" team. When the final totals were tallied, the Bisons' expectations had not been fulfilled. They mustered -44 points, good for fourth place, while Ouachita Baptist slipped by Henderson State for the conference title. Six Bison tracksters qualified at the district level for the NAIA national outdoor meet but failed to place at the Abilene, Texas event. Looking back on the season, Harding was well-represented by its field event personnel. Senior Steve Flatt heaved his way to first place in the shot put at triangular meets, tossing the shot over 50 feet at the aBU-Hendrix College contest. The Quartet of Baldwin, Don Thurman, Kevin Granberg and Tim Flatt made up a strong triple jump and long jump contingent, with Flatt setting a new freshman long jump record with a 22-10'12 leap. Newcomer Mike Lynch also put his name in the freshman record book, tying the existing 15-0 pole vault mark set in 1977 by Fraley. Harding's traditional strengths in the distance and ~iddle distance races also surfaced in the mid-season trianguiars. The 5000-meter run seemed particularly amenable to John Sills and Phil Hostetler, with each charging to victories in triangular meets, Sills, a freshman, ran a respectable 15: 17.6 eighth place finish in that race in the prestigious, 16-team Kansas Relays. Meanwhile, Matt Grate covered three miles in 15:07.3 at the aBU-Hendrix College meet for first place and also clocked a 4:06.7 1500-meter run for top honors in the UAPB/Memphis Track Club meet. 1. WITH MIGHT and precision, Steve Flatt, an AII·Ale athlete, hurls the shotput into the air. 2. GOING that extra step when it hurts is what makes an athlete, as with Kelly Kemp. 3. INTENSE CONCENTRATION is the key to victory f'or Daryll BasSett, Harding's top all-around sprinter. Craig Hostetler stands by as a comforting friend as well as a supporter. 4. LOOKING AHEAD, freshman Bruce Burgston stretches to clear the next hurdle at the Bison Triangular meet with the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff 5. DISPLAYING his physical strength, polevaulter Mike Lynch makes his approach to clear the bar at the Triangular meet with the University 0/ Central Arkansas and Henderson State University. 6. TRACK TEAM. Front Row: Lambert, Teixeira, Shelton, Bergsten, Gambill, Greene, McKeever, White, Hostetler, Smith, Collins, Second Row: Coach Ted Lloyd, Edwards, Howell, Kinser, Bassett, Stephens, Granberg, Grate, Grimes, Jones, Reese, T. Flatt, Thurman, Coach Cliff Sharp. Back Row: May-Mgr., S. Flatt, Sennett, Kemp, Piller, Condon, Williams, Lynch, Fraley, Shepherd, Parker, Zakrevsky-Mgr. Track ~ 135
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