BLACK, ROSSITER WIN AGAIN FOR SHORE AC ON FINAL DAY OF USATF NATIONAL MASTERS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CHCAGo

  By ELLIOTT DENMAN

   THE FOUR-DAY USATF National Masters Track and Field Championships in Chicago is now a wrap and our Shore AC delegation, we are oh-so-proud to say, has wrapped itself in glory.

    With a an amazing total of 237 events in the book, the gathered athletes from all over the nations displayed their speed, stamina, strength and skill in age brackets from 25-29 to 94-99 !! Wow!!

    A total  of 121 club teams broke ino the scoring column and the Shore AC delegation - a rather mini-group with just a fraction of us able to get to The Windy City - covered itself in glory.

   We placed 9th of the 121 combined men's and women's teams with 139 points, 6th of the men's squads with 93 points, and d, and 14th of the women's teams with 46 points.
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  Potomac Valley (500.5 points) led over-all scoring, So Cal (465) topped the men and TNT(294) the women- but Shore  AC, left a whole bunch of noted teams well behind when all the results were tabulated, which was a chore unto itself.


    Gold medal performances by Dr. Ivan Black and Spider Rossiter were features of Shore AC's Sunday showing.

    Dr. Black, who'd previously won the M75 triple jump, added another gold by long jumping 10-10 1/2.  And he brought his gold medal total to a brilliant five with legs on three separate non-club relay events,

    Rossiter, who'd previusly won the M70 mile, added another win with his 2:47.21 800 meters.

 
    Maurelhena Walles added a bronze with her 4th place in the W45 200 in 28.54.

    John Kuhi ran 7th in the M75 800 at 4:52.

   In addition to Black and Rossiter, Shore AC's double gold medalists in club scoring over the four-day meet were racewalker Israel (Jerry) Soto-Duprey (M50), who struck gold in the Thursday and Friday sessions, while throws superstar Oneithea (Neni) Lewis (W60) won a pair of golds on Saturday.