Eleven members of the men's track and field team will compete today at the prestigious Millrose Games in New York City.

Aidan O'Reilly will run the IC4A mile, and the Lions will enter a 1,600 and a 3,200 meter relay team. These three events will be held at Madison Square Garden while C.J. Hunter and Phil Caraher compete in the shot put at Manhattan College.

The 1,600 relay will consist of Greg Rogers, Kevin Crepanuk, Greg Large and Dave Marsden. Doug Walter, Joe Stegbauer, Jon Strange and Mark Anderson will make up the 3,200 relay.

Large will be the only runner in the 1,600 relay who has run this particular event before.

"We're doing it for the competition," Large said. "It's a good way to get out there and run against some good competition."

"It's a big meet with a lot of the top athletes in the country and from around the world, so it's going to be a headbanger," Coach Harry Groves said. "Millrose is the granddaddy of indoor track."

The 3,200 relay team consists of the same four runners who ran it last weekend in Tennessee.

Stegbauer said the Millrose track is slower because of its smaller size and wooden surface. He said it's a tight track and gets congested. Spiked shoes must be worn while running on the track. Stegbauer said if a person were to stand on the track at the top of turn wearing dress shoes, he would slide down the bank.

"The competition on that small track is intense, up-close and tight; it should provide a lot of excitement," Groves said. "Times are less important than the competitive element."

Tomorrow the Lions will host a pentathlon at the Indoor Sports Complex starting at 10:30 a.m. This will allow pentathletes the opportunity to qualify for the IC4A Championships.

Lions Barry Walsh, Brad Keyes, Mason Ternay, Terry Meier and Mike Frank will be competing. An pentathlete needs 3,600 points to qualify for IC4As.

"It's not an easy number to get," Groves said.

Keyes said that athletes accumulate points by their performances, not by their finishing place in an event. Different times or distances in the five events determine the amount of points an athlete will receive.

As an average time or distance in each event, Keyes said an athlete would need about an 8.0 in the 55-meter hurdles, 21'0" to 21'6" in the long jump, 44'0" in the shot, about 6'2" in the high jump and about 2:50 in the 1,000-meter run.