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Terry Baker GAR Winner In 50:18By TEDTROXELL Times Staff WriterHagerstown’s Terry Baker, frustrated by a performance last Sunday almost to the point of passing up yesterday’s Great Allegany Run, came here anyway and is mighty glad he did.The 27-year-old Baker, who works as a public relations representative for the Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in the Hub City, won the third annual GAR by covering the 10-mile course from Mt. Savage to the Country Club Mall, LaVale, in 50 minutes, 18 seconds.The victory gave Baker the Road RunnersClub of America Eastern Regional championship, a $500 U.S. Savings Bond, a blanket which wasn’t needed yesterday, a plaque to add to his already bulging trophy case, and a bottle of champagne with which to celebrate.Marge Rosasco, 35, of Fallston, Md , repeated as the women’s champion with a 1:01:16 mark that was 1:46 slower than her record time last year of 59:30. Rosasco finished 52nd overall in the field of 500 runners Baker, who finished second last year to Malcolm East, pulled away from a pack of six runners in the last 2l/z miles and finished 13 seconds ahead of Morgantown’s Mark Neal who ran 50:31. Another second behind in third place was Steve Molnar, of Johnstown.East, who set the course record last year in 49:13 and beat Baker by 19 seconds, had entered his application and was expected to appear. However, he notified race director Bob Krueger he was staying in his adopted hometown of Pittsburgh—he’s a British citizen—this weekend to compete in a triathlon.Baker said he was disappointed he did not have a chance to challenge East. “I was hungry for this race and he probably would have had trouble defending his title.”Bright sunshine and temperatures which were in the low 60’s at the 8:30 a.m. start, but climbed steadily along with the humidity, kept the times from approaching the top 1982 marks. Four runners came in under 50:02 last year on a cool, cloudy morning.The source of Baker’s disappointment last weekend was his showing in the Natural Light Run Through History at Antietam Battlefield, where he was upset by Bobby Snyder, of McConnellsburg, Pa. Baker ran the 10-kilometer course in 30:41 to lose by five seconds.He said he had planned then to take a little time off from competitive running, but his “retirement” lasted less than 24 hours when he went out the next day and put in 20 training miles.Molnar, who was one of the runners who stayed with Baker the first 74 miles, said, “Terry got a litle bit of a lead there and juststretched it out to the finish. ’ ’Baker said when he went from the 7V2-mile mark to the 84 marker in under five minutes he was confident he would win the race. “But it got mighty warm coming up that last hill,” he said, referring to the steep incline of the Mall entrance off Vocke Road.Baker’s next competition will be Sunday, July 3, in the Pepsi Light 10-K Run in New York City, which is expected to draw a field of 10,000 runners.An athlete of world class stature, Baker finished seventh in the 1982 Boston Marathon in 2:16 and holds the 10,000-meter record of 28:54 at Auburn University, where he transferred after attending Hagerstown Junior College.Baker led Alan’s Locker Room to the team championship of the GAR, as the Hagerstown club got strong finishes from David Shafer, who was sixth overall in 51:14; Jeff Delauter, 10th, 51:57, Greg Holder, 13th, 53:41, and Mark Baldino, 19th, 54:43. The team is coached by Greg Shank.Cumberland’s Queen City Striders had two team members among the first eight finishers. Kevin McGarry, who now resides in Horsham, Pa., but lived here for awhile last year, was fourth in 50:50, and Jeff (Special Delivery) Smith, local postal clerk, was eighth in 51:44, up from a 14th place finish and 53:06 time last year.The first female finisher among the Allegany County runners was Lynn Bridges, of Cumberland, an Allegany Community College nursing student who was second in the 20-29 age division in 1:12:46.Brian Redman of Piedmont, Keyser High School’s state cross country champion, was 24th overall and won the 14-19 age group championship in 55:22.Scott Yockus, of Cumberland, was first in the boys’ 13 and under division in 1:02:35, and his cousin, Mary Ann Puderbaugh, was first in the girls’ 13 and under group in 1:22:44The GAR is held for the benefit of leukemia research and the loudest ovation at the awards ceremony in the Mall’s Center Court was forDave Haushalter, 19, of Severna Park, a leukemia victim who completed the three-mile “fun run” held in conjunction with the 10-mile race, and was presented a plaque by Krueger.Bill Haushalter, Dave’s father who is an assistant football coach at the Naval Academy, ran in the 10-miler and presented $660 in contributions for leukemia research from friends in the Annapolis area.The Leukemia Society of America was represented by James Fitzgerald, executive director The Great Allegany Run was sponsored by Kaiser Refractories and the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Cumberland.MARGE ROSASCO
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Cumberland Sunday Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Jun 12, 1983
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