..... Harriers tally perfect score . ' . ..,. C ontinl.1ir'ig to dominate local competition, the Harding cross country team tallied the second perfect score in AIC history, winning their nin th straight league title, November 9. Junior Richard Teixeira paced the Bisons through the five-mile course at Bald Knob Country Club in 25:37, winning h is second consecutive individual championship. Behind Teixeira, Harding runners filled the next four spots. Effectively overshadowing the rest of the Ale, Coach Ted Lloyd 's harriers depended )n in tersec tional invita tionals for their most :hallenging competition. The Bisons encered and placed well in three such meets during September and October. On September 22, Harding placed third of 11 teams in the seventeenth annual Bison Booster Invitational at Foothills Vo-Tech School in Searcy. Southeast Missouri State took team honors with 46 points. Harding's l . '. ) / -. .._ ..... . /~ ~(cCD:Jffe]b)CD:J@ff<dl----' 1979 AIC-NAIA DISTRICT 17 CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS HARDING UNIVERSITY 15 Ouachita Baptist University 66 Arkansas Tech University 80 University of Arkansas-Monticello 104 Hendrix College 149 Southern Arkansas University 165 Henderson State University 192 College of the Ozarks 193 Arkansas College 271 Lambert was the top Bison finisher , placing second. Going into the NotTe Dame Invitational in South Bend, Indiana, Harding was ranked seventh nationally in the NAIA. The Bisons placed eighth among 14 teams in the gold, or second, div ision with 196 points. Lambert again led the team in thi r· teenth place . "We felt it was an outstanding meet with some of the finest teams in the country," said Lloyd. "We were very pleased with our performance." Lambert remained Harding's top finisher October 13 when he came in sixt h in the 10,000 meter Southwest Missouri State In - vitat ional. Accumulating 63 points, the Bisons captured second behind Southwest Missouri's 57 points. The Bisons advanced to the NAIA national meet in Kenosha, Wisconsin after winning the District 17 event. The team's goal was to place in the top 10 of the 40 teams qualifying for the national championship run. In Kenosha , however , that was not to be. As the meet approached three runners became ill. Randy Jackson and John McAlister were both prescribed medication while Richard Teixeira battled his illness by other means. On the morning of the meet the entire Bison team lined up for the start , including Jackson, McAlister and Teixeira. In the course of the run McAlister dropped out as his malady grew worse , and Lambert was fo rced from the meet with a sprained ankle . Teixeira went on to take twenty-fifth and All-American designation, lead ing the team to a hard-fought sixteenth place finish. ~ 1. AT THE SOUND of the gun. Harding 's harriers break from the starring line in the Bison Booster Invitational Meet. 2. RAY WUNDERLICH and Joe O 'Cotlor stride down tile course in hopes of a victory. J. WORKING fo r a better time , Marty Sewell runs for improvement in his first year of intercollegiate competition. 4. CROSS COUNTRY TEAM. FRONT ROW Jackson, Sennett , McAlister, Sills , Teixeira , Lambert. BACK ROW: May-Trainer, Wunderlich , Sewell, Clinton, Piller, O 'Cotlor, Rogers , Lloyd-Coach , Hostetler-Graduate A ssistant. S. MONTHS of rigorous training pay off as the harriers lead the pack at the meet at the Va-Tech School. 115 Cross Country
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