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March 27,1995
Eagle Sports
Track and Field
NCCU shines at Walker Meet
By Carey D. Johnson
Echo Sports Editor
On a brisk and beautiful Satur
day afternoon, while most NCCU
students enjoyed the last few days
of spring break, the Eagles’ track
team was busy hosting the LeRoy
T. Walker Olympic Development
Meet.
The meet was started in 1991
by NCCU track coach Mike
Lawson as a tribute to the “living
legend.”
Walker, who now serves as
President of the U.S. Olympic
Committee, spoke at the first open
ing of the event.
The meet serves to kick off the
outdoor season for the track team
as well as provide an eventful pack
age for many participants outside
of North Cariolina.
“There is an expressed interest
from out-of-state teams,” NCCU
coach Mike Lawson said. “Many
of them use it as part of their spring
break activities.”
Lawson, a Durham High School
graduate, had watched LeRoy T.
Walker, then track coach for
NCCU, mold his athletes into
Olympians and became an admirer
Walker offered Lawson his first
experience in coaching by tagging
him to take over the NCCU track
team in 1989.
Lawson has not disappointed
anyone in his six-year stint as the
track program has taken off once
again.
The NCCU women dominated
the field Saturday in the 100, 200,
and 300 meter dash competitions,
placing first in all three events.
Lynetta Golden, Elisha
Marshall and Jacklyn Jackson fin
ished one-two-three in the 100
meter dash.
Golden also finished first in the
200 and Pathereka Miller finished
(above) Out of state
participants take part in the
competitive atmosphere of
the LeRoy T. Walker Meet in
March.
(above right) NCCU's Bryan
Taylor soars like an Eagle
during the long jump
competition,
(right) NCCU's Lynetta
Golden leads the field in the
100 meter dash. NCCU won
first, second and third places
in the race.
first in the 400 meter dash.
NCCU performs well in these
events normally but they also had
an added interest.
“You always want to do well in
your own invitational meets,”
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Lawson said. They did well in
deed.
Rounding out the womens’
events was the 4x 100 meter dash in
which NCCU placed second.
The Eagles placed first in the
4x400. Tamica Burnett finished
second in the 400 meter hurdles
and freshman Kimberly McPhatter
won the high jump
Nzinga Poteat finished fourth in
the 400 meter dash.
The men were not to be out
done on this fine afternoon, either.
Daimy Williams finished sec
ond in the 800 meter dash and
Chris Ross placed third in the 400.
Brian Gore placed second in the
high jump and Tyrone Fox landed
a third place spot in the triple jump.
In the field competitions foot
ball transplant James Grant fin
ished third in the shot put and
Merryll Phifer finished fifth.
March
Mayhem
By Carey D. Johnson
Echo Sports Editor
The NCAA tournament known
as March Madness once again cov
ers the triangle area in a din of
pandemonium.
Intense arguments over which
teams will advance and which
ones become first round road kill
have become everyday banter
among basketball fans.
Office pools and sportsbars have
become sanctuaries for basketball
fans all over the Carolinas.
Most basketball fans revel in
the opportunity to fill out those
NCAA tournament brackets at the
beginning of March, but filling
them out this year has been traly
eventful.
Take for instance the flip flop
ping firstround. The Arizona Wild
cats led by All-American guard
Damon Staudomire was ousted in
the first round by upstart Miami of
Ohio. Indiana, a tournament main
stay, was leveled in the first round
by the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
"The top teams are not really
handling the more aggressive un
derdogs," basketball fan Aaron
McRae said, adding some insight
into the first round action. "It has
led to more excitement."
The second round proved even
more eventful. The Big 10 confer
ence which sent a league leading
six teams into the tournament,
(Michigan, Indiana, Purdue, Illi
nois, Minnesota and Missouri) had
no representatives after the second
round, going 1-6 combined with
the only win coming from a 2-
point squeaker by Perdue.
Throw in the fact that the only
team remaining from last years
final four is a sporadic Arkansas
team, and perennial power Duke is
watching this years tournament on
television, you can pretty much
imagine the scramble to predict
this years final four.
The tournament for the first time
in years truly lives up to its March
Madness billing.
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