Heptagonals Drive Thinclads In Circles

A combination of exams and late semester papers resulted in a disappointing seventh-place finish for the Harvard women's track team and a ninth-place showing by the men in the annual Heptagonal Games over the weekend at Navy.

Penn finished atop the 10-team women's field, while Princeton topped the men's division--some 101 points ahead of the Crimson's team total.

But despite a lack of runners, the Crimson--which returned home Monday morning--did manage to register some impressive showings in several events.

Harvard's Lois Brommer cruised by her competition to capture first place in the 10-kilometer race, posting a time of 34:36.4. Brommer also recorded a fifth-place finish in the five-kilometer event.

Freshman Judy Dushay took fourth place in the 10-kilometer race for the Crimson, with a time of 37:01.1.

"Even though we did not have the whole team, there was a lot of team unity," Dushay said. "Everyone was really pushing for each other to do well."

Perhaps the most sensational Harvard performance of the weekend was turned in by junior stand-out Erin Sugrue, who collected three second-place finishes for the thinclads.

The Kirkland House resident captured the first of her three runner-up honors in the high jump, with a strong 5-fit., 9 1/4-in. jump.

Sugrue then broke the Harvard school record in the triple jump, with a 38-ft., 4-in. leap--giving her second place number two.

After posting an impressive 14.26 in the 100 meter high-hurldes trials, Sugrue dropped off slightly to a time of 14.41 in the finals--still good enough for the Westwood native to wrap up her third and final second-place finish of the Heps.

Also placing for the women was sophomore Patti Jeanne White, whose 5-ft., 4 1/4-in. high jump effort enabled her to tie for fifth in that event.

"Everyone was supportive of each other because everyone was under additional pressure, with exams awaiting us when we returned home," Dushay said.

The Heptagonals served as a tune-up for Easterns, which will be held at George Mason College in Washington, D.C., next weekend.

More of the Same

Facing the same exam-period predicament as the women, the Harvard men's track team did not fare well either, posting a disappointing ninth-place overall finish.

The men thinclads, who found their greatest success in the field events, competed for the last time before the IC4A's, to be held at Villanova University in two weeks.

James Russell led the way for the Crimson, notching a second-place finish in the hammer throw with a toss of 192-ft., 11-in.

Harvard's George Krause tallied a third place in the javelin, with a 196-ft., 11-in. throw.

In the 15,000-meter event, Crimson thinclad Cliff Sheehan collected a third-place finish by posting a time of 32:52.05.

In the same race, Harvard's Paul Kent logged in at 3:53.34, giving the junior sixth-place honors. Overall Team Results

Men 1. Princeton  122 2. Navy  106.5 3. Cornell  104.5 4. Army  77.5 5. Brown  56 6. Yale  55 7. Penn  40 8. Dartmouth  30.5 9. HARVARD  21 10. Columbia  7

Women 1. Penn  136 2. Army  127 3. Yale  107.5 4. Princeton  89.5 5. Brown  53 6. Dartmouth  48 7. HARVARD  45.5 8. Cornell  18.5 9. Navy  12 10. Columbia  2