Elis Drop Thinclads

The Harvard men's and women's track teams both lost their dual meets with Yale Saturday in New Haven, Conn. The men were crushed. 119-43, while the women were outscored 78-66.

The losses were especially painful since individual event winners were guaranteed places on the combined Harvard-Yale team which will travel to England later this year to compete against a combined Oxford-Cambridge team.

Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty is expected to announce the Crimson contingent later this week. There should be about 20 Harvard men and women on the squad.

In Saturday's meet, the women again were led by Co-Captain Erin Sugrue and freshman Meredith Rainey, each of whom won three events. In addition, both ran on the winning 4 x 400 meter relay team.

Sugrue took the high jump with a jump of 5-ft., 8-in., the triple jump with a jump of 37-ft., 11-in., and the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.64.

Rainey took the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter races for the Crimson. Rainey's time in the 100 was 12.4 and her time in the 400 was 55.95. Rainey received the Treasurer's Award, which recognizes the meet's top performer.

Despite the loss, the women were upbeat. "We knew it was going to be a 10-point meet," Sugrue said. "We have Heps in two weeks and I think we can upset them and move up in the Ivy League standings."

For the men, junior Don LaVigne won the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.18, while senior Paul Kent won the 1500-meter race in 3:47.9.

The Crimson garnered most of its points in the field events. Sophomore Chris Sullivan won the high jump with a jump of 6-ft., 8 in., while Co-Captain Rob Gustafson finished second in the high, long and triple jumps.

Junior James Russell placed second in the hammer throw with a throw of 200-ft., 10-in. This was a personal best for Russell, and the throw qualified him for the nationals.

"If it were in any other meet I would have been pleased," Russell said of the second place throw.

Overall, the meet was rather disappointing for the men's team. "You can never tell ahead of time what will happen in a dual meet," Co-Captain Steven Abbey said.