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The NCAA News -- February 15, 1999

Division II Men's Indoor Track

Field: The Division II Championships Committee has approved a qualifying procedure that allows for a maximum of 126 student-athletes.

Dates and site: The championships will be conducted March 5-6 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Butler and USA Track and Field are cohosts.

Information/results: The fax-on-demand telephone number is 770/563-1133 (pin code 1915); request numbers are 1575 for dates/site/schedule, 5268 for qualifiers, 5269 for first-day results, 5270 for second-day results and 5271 for finals-only results. Championships results also will be available on the World Wide Web at www.ncaa.org. Results will be published in the March 15 issue of The NCAA News.

Championships notes: Abilene Christian captured its third consecutive title, and fifth in the last six years, with a 26-point victory in 1998 over runner-up St. Augustine's. The championship was Abilene Christian's sixth overall, and pulled the Wildcats to within one of St. Augustine's division-leading total. The two schools, which tied for first place in 1988, have claimed all but one of the titles in the 13-year history of the championships. Southeast Missouri State was the champion in the inaugural meet in 1985. St. Augustine's has been second every time that it has not won ... Abilene Christian student-athletes won five individual titles in 1998 to St. Augustine's two, narrowing the Falcons' overall lead in that category to 36-31. Another sign of the two schools' dominance is the 67 combined individual championships. The other Division II institutions have amassed 93 individual first places as a group.