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*-f.*t¥ ■■ * I* irItobeBy MIKE HANDY•Anyone of the fairly large gathering who witnessed the Richardson Invitational last Saturday, could not have gone away without still talking about the sensational distance running of Mustangs and Eagles in the big Meet. Existing records were broken in the half mile and the mile. In the mile it was not only broken but shattered, as Mike Langran the flying young Mustang romped to his finest hour with a blistering 4:24.3 and sensational Eagle John Lodwick, a mere rookie to the track world, was right on his heels with a 4: 25.2. The record of 4:30.1 set way back in ’66 was completely demolished and even before the crowd knew it they were breathless.When two dedicated kids like this get together, anything can happen. That it did, as the pair exchanged leads, breathed on each other’s backs hotly, showed the courage and determination that brought out the best in a crowd. They roared a ipighty approval. That was one hell of a race to put it bluntly and like a rpal “champ’’ Langran said gracefully, “Man, that Lodwick’s tough ... heshould be great. This was my toughest run with John supplying that inspiration’’ A salute to two top runnersIn the 880, A1 Stewart, who has been and still might be the Mustang’s top miler, tried his hand at the 880. Mustang coach John McKenzie felt that Al, had the best shot at it and threw his feared stallion into the pack. Stewart without exmadebrokenperience of 880 competition, threw those long legs of his, that led the Mustangs to the state Cross-Country title and had been flirting with the state’s top mile mark, into the race with zest. He took an early lead and never gave it up, although he was forced right down to the final wire. Wes Jeanes, the Eagle half-milesensation, whose 1.55.7 was topping state, was just not this day up to snuff as he finished with a 1.57 clocking for 4th. Stewart swept eyeballing Tommy Maupin’s ’65 record of 1.55.8 from the books as his first salute to the new event for him with a brilliant 1.54.3 and that may be the state’s best.What a pair of events arebuilding up for the District 13-AAAA Meet here in three weeks.Other locals finishing for points in these two events, were the upcoming Pete Stepan of the Eagles who finished 4th and Chuck Richey of Lake Highlands who grabbed 5th. In the 880 Mark Rushing of the Eagles was 5th and Pete Kindle of Pearce 6th.Richard Pettigrew’s 9.36.8 in the Two Mile a new event showed that the Pony co-captain is returning to form. Pettigrew had competition from Eagle Grady Frank who finished third for a while, but just completely dominated the race overlapping some of the runners twice.Other first place points which fell to the Eagles, again a sign of great depth that has brought them 6 straight district titles.came from Paul Vance, Jim Lemons and Rick Lawson. Vance just tuning up in the high jump from basketball soared over 6-4 to tie the Meet record. Lemons, who skimmed over 14-2 in the Pole Vault broke the record of 14-*6, but did not hit his best of the year of 14-6 earlier this spring. Lawson, got off a fine leap of 12-11 to win the Long Jump.Other local points were as follows. Eagle Ronnie Cline, the fastest Eagle in many a moon, was third in the 220 with 23.3 and 5th in the century. Ronnie was competing with the comets of South Oak Clifff, Pinkston, Tetal, who are the state’s best who run with jet propelled motion.In the 330 Hurdles, Danny Scott was 4th in the final in which Abilene’s Don Brown set a new record. George Hill of the Wildcats took third, Ken Fugate of Pearce took 4th in the 440 and Steve Lemond of the Eagles 6th. In the High Hurdles Rick Lawson took 4th, running a close race. In the Long Jump, Rick Fambro took 4th. Butch Harrell of Lake Highlands took second in the High Jump with a 6-2, while Don Church tied for 4th.Phil Hall, still not a top strength took third in the shot with a heave of 56 feet even, while Steve Swords of the Eagles was 4th in the discus.The track teams will be involved in the Garland Relays this Saturday, followed by the Jesuit Invitational Saturday week and then comes the big district 13-AAAA clash
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Richardson Daily News
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Tue, Mar 23, 1971
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