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*RIS (ILL.) DA It Y HERA LO. TIJE5., MAY 30, 1978 PAGE ft“He was nothing short offantastic.That is how Minooka coach Joe Reische described Tom Clennon. who had his personal bests and broke Minooka records at the Class AA Boys State Track Championships at Charleston Saturday The senior placed third in the 880-yard run 11:52.62) and fourth in the mile 14:11.4).Clennon was among three Morris-Joliet area athletes who placed at State The others were Wilmington's Walt Schneiter and Joliet East's Tim Herring Schneiter, a Class A champion last year in the discus throw, claimed the Class AA title this year with his record-breaking toss of 165'8. And Herring came in second inthe triple jumpof 48'64.tom clennonMinooka placed the highest of the area schools with 11 points East St Louis, though it didn'thave any first places and only one second, captured its fourth straight title Clennon. last year's Class A champion in the mile and two-mile. was “boxed in in the 880with one lap left, until Fenton's Jim Spivey got loose to win it In the mile. Clennon lost out to Sandburg standout Tom Graves, who Reische labelled as one of the “best in the nation. Graves also won the two-mile Reische said a lot of coaches and athletes complimented the performance of Clennon. who onlv had 40 minutes between his events.“It was a very tough double. the coach said “It is tougher than running the mile and two-mile because of the distance inbetween We are super proud ofhim.Clennon, who clipped 10 seconds off of last year's state mile time (4:21.42), would rather have a better fourth place finish time in Class AA than a worse first-place finish time in Class A, Reische saidThe Minooka standout was put in the 880 this year because of speed improvement “We noticed he picked up leg speed this year the Minooka coach said. “We wanted to move our runners around into to as many different events as possible And we saw he had one of the top times in the state in the 880.“He’s a gutsy kid. Reische continued “He’s not a normal distance runner I don’t think 'here was a double-runner inthe 880 and two-mile that placed as high “The other two Minooka representatives. George Goldasich (discus) and Mark Dean (high jump), did not make it into the finals. Goldasich missed the discus finals by only three-quarters of an inch with his toss of 147’ 1114- And Dean, with a high jump of 6’3 on Friday, failed to make the qualifying 6’6“.This season. Minooka had a 13-1 record (its only loss was to Herscher'. and it won the Joliet East Relays and the Lisle Invitational. It should still be competitive next year, but will be losing some “studs through graduation, according to Reische
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