Members of the men's indoor track team will be facing some stiff competition tonight as they take on various world-record holders at the prestigious Millrose Games.

Televised from Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Millrose Games represent the oldest open track meet in the United States. No teams vie for the titles. Only individuals compete, and all competitors must be invited.

"To be invited, you've got to be pretty top caliber," Coach Harry Groves said. "Three things that really make it an exciting track meet are the size of the arena, the size of the track and the proximity of the fans to the track," Groves continued. "Watching the Millrose Games in the Garden is like sitting under the net at a basketball game."

Competing for the Lions in the shot put will be C.J. Hunter and Phil Caraher. They will be going up against 1988 Olympic silver medalist Randy Barnes and 1988 NCAA champion Ed Wade. Hunter bested Wade in last weekend's Kodak Invitational with a throw of 62' 5½" to take first place.

The Lions also send one- and two-mile relay teams to the Garden tonight. Featured in the one-mile relay team are Sam Harris, Greg Large, Jon Strange and Kevin Wiley. In the two-mile event, Doug Walter, Chris Mills, Mike Castillo and Mike Anderson will compete.

Two other events will be hosted by the Nittany Lions this weekend in the Greenberg Indoor Sports Complex. At 1 p.m. today the Penn State Development Pentathlon Meet will take place, and tomorrow the TAC Pentathlon National Championship will be held.

In the Development Meet, Penn State's Barry Walsh, Eric Steenstra, Brad Keyes, Terry Meier, Ricardo Hall and Tom Kleban will compete for the pentathlon title. The main goal of these meets is to qualify for the IC4A championships, Groves said.

Tomorrow's meet will put the Lions up against the Santa Barbara Track Club's Ed Brown, the Knoxville Track Club's Doug Hedrick, former Lion Dave Masgay, and defending IC4A pentathlon champion Mark Ivanov of Bentley College.