With an extra week between the end of the regular season and the Championships, the Men's Track Team went to the Williams' Invitational. The intent was to go to a non-scoring competitive meet with good weather conditions. Reality was a rainy, wind swept, cold day. There was very little competition because the coaches were worried about injuries the week before the Division III Championships, and pulled many of their competitors from the competition.

Nevertheless, MIT had many season and personal bests, showing that they are ready for the Championships. Qualifying for next week's meet were Mike DeMassa '97 in the Pole Vault with a season best of 12-09, and Mike Parkins '99 in the 5000 Meter Run with a time of 15:05.4. This was the first meet that Mike did not run the Steeplechase.

Other bests were turned in by numerous competitors. In his first long jump of the season, Ravi Sastry '98 jumped 20-0. In the Pole Vault, Dafe Ogagan '97 had a personal best of 14-10 to win that event. Dafe had three great attempts at 15-04, but did not quite make it. Also in the Pole Vault, contested inside due to the weather conditions, Andrew Jamieson '99 started getting back to his Indoor form with a vault of 13-03 for a season best. Lincoln Bonner '97 put together a fine 400IH race in running a personal best of 58.3, which probably will qualify him for next week's Championships if he decides to run that event. In the 800, Martin Suresh '99 came in 2nd with a personal best of 1:59.1. Also with a personal best in that race was Chuck Van Buren '98 with a 2:03.6. Dan Helgesen '97, recovering from a month long bout with sickness, ran a season best with a 2:00.5 performance. Neal Karchem '99 and Ashley Clayborne '99 had season and personal bests respectively, running 51.1 and 54.6. In addition to Parkins fine performance in the 5000, was David Kelman's season best of 17:08.5.

The New England Division III Championships begin on Thursday, May 9 at Tufts with the Decathlon. Although MIT does not have any decathletes, they will be contenders for one of the three trophies given to the top 3 teams. Without the full services of injured Matt Sandholm '97, and Ravi Sastry '98, Tech will have its work cut out for it.