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Forbes leads Ducks to third place
mmmmmmjjm Men finish a distant 10th at NCAA championships
Emerald photo
By Marcus Prater
Of th« Emerald
The Oregon women
"achieved the team goal" by
finishing third, but the men
were a disappointing 10th on a
muddy course at the NCAA
cross country championships
Monday in Bloomington, Ind
Oregon junior Jim Hill, ex
pected, as was the team, to
finish near the top, ended up
32nd while senior Eryn
Forbes, running her last col
legiate cross country race,
paced the women with a
15th-place showing
Wisconsin waltzed to the
men's title with a 79-point
margin of victory over
second-place Providence
The Badgers were led by Tim
Hacker and Scott Jenkins,
who finished fourth and fifth,
respectively
Colorado's Mark Scrutton
won the individual title with a
30:13 2 clocking over the
10,000-meter course Kenyan
Zakarie Barie from Texas-EI
Paso was second in 30 15
Oregon's Brad Simpson, the
Ducks' number-seven runner,
turned in an unexpected
43rd-place finish while John
Zishka was 81st and Matt
McGuirk finished 96th for
Oregon
Virginia's Leslie Welch took
the women's crown in a
5.000-meter course record of
16:39 Her 28-second victory
over runner-up Regina Joyce
of Washington led the
Cavaliers to the team title,
outdistancing Stanford 47-88
Oregon’s 155 points just
edged darkhorse Harvard for
third
Though it didn't rain during
the meet, the dry weather
conditions marked an end to a
week of rain that made the hilly
course anything but ideal
"The course was extremely
muddy and slippery because
of a week's rain,'' Oregon
women's coach Tom Heinon
en said The course was
really hilly, muddy and slippery
and that made it unlike any
thing we've (Oregon) seen the
past two years
"Our people performed well
for the course,” he continued
"But no where near what they
are capable of on a flatter,
faster course like in the West."
Heinonen said he was not
making excuses for his team,
because there was no need for
alibis
"I feel really good about
achieving the team goal of be
ing in the top three An impor
tant note is even if we would
have had Leann (Warren, the
Ducks number one runner
who was lost for the season
after knee surgery), and if she
would have won, we still would
have finished third,” Heinonen
said
With the individual perfor
mances not what they could
have been, third place is a real
tribute to the Ducks strength
as a team, Heinonen said
The Ducks were "no where
near our individual goals,”
with sophomore Kathy Hayes,
who battled a heavy chest cold
that hindered her talking and
breathing, finishing 39th
Freshman Kim Roth placed
41st, Rosa Gutierrez 48th, Lisa
Martin 66th, Allison Snow 94th
and Claudette Groenendaal
was 101 st out of 132 runners
However, Heinonen lauded
Forbes' last cross country
performance
' The one person that stands
out is Eryn She wanted to fin
ish with a good race and she
did On a day where our
younger performers couldn't
put it together, she did just
that,” Heinonen said of the
Portland product
Heinonen was surprised by
the finish of Harvard
''Everybody thought it (the
race) would come down to
Virginia and Stanford for first
and second, and Oregon and
Clemson for third and fourth I
don't think anybody expected
Harvard to get fourth ”
Penn State climbs to second
From the Associated Press
Penn State moved into second place Monday
in the Associated Press college football poll,
setting up a possible national championship
meeting with top-rated Georgia in the Sugar Bowl
Although Penn State did not play over the
weekend, the Nittany Lions climbed from third
place to second when Southern Metnodist, last
week's runner-up, was held to a 17-17 tie by
Arkansas
Penn State winds up its regular season Friday
against fifth-ranked Pitt, while Georgia, also idle
last weekend, closes Saturday against Georgia
Tech The two teams will meet in the Sugar Bowl
on New Year's Night
Georgia, the nation's only unbeaten-untied
major college team, was a near-unanimous
choice for No 1 with 52 of 57 first-place votes and
1,133 of a possible 1,140 points Penn State
received two first-place ballots and 1,057 points
Nebraska, which meets Oklahoma on Friday
for the Big Eight championship, rose from fourth
to third with the other three first-place votes and
1,018 points
SMU is fourth with 969 points, followed by
Pitt, up from sixth to fifth with 898 points The
Panthers swamped Rutgers 52-6 to earn a Cotton
Bowl berth
Arizona State, idle until Saturday s clash with
Arizona, vaulted from eigth to sixth with 817
points LSU, a runaway 55-21 winner over Florida
State in the Orange Bowl sweepstakes, jumped
from 12th to seventh with 749 points
Rounding out the Top Ten are UCLA Arkan
sas and Clemson. while Washington dropped
from fifth to 13th after losing to Washington State
24-20 and Florida State fell from seventh to 15th
UCLA, No 11 last week, went to to eighth with
706 points by edging Southern California 20-19
Sax named Rookie of the Year,
fourth straight Dodger to win
NEW YORK (AP) - Second
baseman Steve Sax has been
named the National League's
Rookie of the Year in a close
vote to become the fourth con
secutive Los Angeles Dodger to
win the award, the Baseball
Writers Association of America
announced Monday
Sax, 22, landed nine first
place votes and a total of 63
points from a panel of two
writers from each of the 12 Na
tional League cities Johnny
Ray Pittsburgh Pirates second
baseman, finished second with
six first-place votes and 57
points
Outfielder Willie McGee, one
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of the St Louis Cardinals World
Series heroes, finished third
with five first-place votes and 39
points
Sax. whose emergence al
lowed the Dodgers to trade ve
teran Davey Lopes to Oakland
during the off-season, batted
.282 in the leadoff position,
drove in 47 runs and stole 49
bases in 150 games
Sax drew four second-place
votes and six for third and
became the 11th Dodger to win
the rookie prize since it was
inaugurated in 1947 In 1947
and 1948 there was only one
rookie award tor both leagues
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