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.

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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.