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W. Track Dominates H-Y-P Meet

The Harvard women's track team--now ranked sixth in the nation in the latest USTCA Power rankings--is showing no signs of letting down as it prepares to defend its Indoor Heptagonal title at Gordon Track in two weeks.

On Saturday at Princeton, the Crimson (6-0. 4-0 Ivy) took the H-Y-P meet in convincing fashion, scoring 71 points to bury Yale's 55 and Princeton's 32. Harvard has not lost an indoor track meet in either of the past two seasons.

Co-captain Brenda Taylor won three events and beat two meet records to lead the way. Senior high-jumper Dora Gyorffy also bolstered the team with the highest collegiate jump in the country this season. It was her first Crimson tri-meet since taking the semester off to compete in the Sydney Olympics.

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The Crimson men (3-3, 1-3 Ivy) had to settle for third with 38 points, just short of 43 points by Yale and far back of Princeton's 89. Harvard's lone winners were junior Shawn Parker in the 55-meter hurdles and senior Arthur Fergusson in the triple jump.

The Crimson captains Chris Clever and John Kraay both set personal records--Clever in the weight throw and Kraay in the shot put--each of which was good enough for second place in the highly competitive field.

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The Crimson women dominated the meet with team-wide improvement across the board. The team set personal records in nearly every event, which bodes well for its potential at Heps.

"The makeup of this team is a little different from last year," said co-captain Marna Schutte. "But we still have a lot of people returning from last year and we're as strong, if not stronger."

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