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Duck harriers favored at meet
Men's team runs for
top conference title.
By Kevin Allen
Emerald Contributer
The University’s men's cross
country team heads south to
Palo Alto, Calif., in the hopes of
winning the Pacific-10 Con
ference title today. The Ducks,
who are 4-0 in the Pac-10 and
6-0 overall, will run at the
Pac-10 Championship hosted by
Stanford at 10 a m.
Oregon, ranked ninth na
tionally, is the top ranked team
in the conference, followed by
Arizona, ranked 11th national
ly. This will be only the third
time the Ducks have had to run
seriously, and it will be their
first chance to face the six
Pac-10 schools from Arizona
and California. Arizona is
defending Pac-10 champion.
Oregon was runner up at 1080
meet.
In their five Pac-10 victories,
only Washington State has
challenged the Ducks, which
ended in Cougars defeat, 23-38.
Oregon Coach Bill Dellinger
said after the race with
Washington State that the
Ducks have shown their
strength to the conference teams
in the Pacific Northwest.
However, it remains to be seen
how they can run against teams
from the southern half of the
conference.
‘We have to look
at. . Arizona. They have to be
the favorite from the south
while we'll be the favorite from
the north," Dellinger said
Oregon athletes expected to
run include Chad Bennion,
Brad Hudson. Steve Richards,
Buck Jones, Seth Simonds,
Chuck Lewis and Mark Dunbar.
Bennion and Hudson have
lead the Ducks all season as
number one and two runners in
all of Oregon's meets. In
Oregon's last meet against
Oregon State and Washington
State. Hudson, after falling far
behind in the first four miles of
the 6.1 mile race, came on
strong at the end to finish less
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Arizona, like the Ducks, have
run very few competitive races
this year and information on
them is scarce, keeping those
making the rankings guessing
as to how good they are The
Wildcats started this season
ranked seventh but have fallen
to 11th despite having gone
undefeated so far this season.
l.ast year’s number one runner
who lead Arizona to the f’ac-lt)
title one year ago transferred
Hy the time the meet ends
later today Oregon will know
just how good Arizona is and
hopefully the Ducks will return
with another cross country
championship
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Graves leads women,
defends ’86 honor.
By Aaron Knox
Emerald Sport* Editor
Oregon women's cross coun
try coach Tom Meinonen carries
a seasoned squad into the
Pacific-10 Conference cham
pionships today at Stanford,
Calif., as five of his seven run
ners have conference-title meet
experience
The Ducks, ranked second na
tionally in the most recent
coaches poll, will l>e prohibitive
favorites to defend the crown
they claimed in the first
year women competed in the
auspices of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association,
Senior Penny Graves returns
to defend the individual title
she won in 1986, when she
bacame the NCAA's first
woman champion in any sport
She leads a strong contingent
paced by fellow seniors Annette
Hand and Lisa Johnson, and
sophomore Liz Wilson.
Hand. Craves and Wilson
finished 1-2-3 in Oregon's two
toughest tests to date, the
Emerald City Invitational in
Seattle and the Wisconsin
Classic in Madison. Wise., both
of which Oregon won easily
They will be joined by
sophomores Karen Kayle and
Libby Tyson, and senior Deanna
Schiedler Hand and Tyson will
be running in their first con
ference meets, while Craves and
Sheidler are each in their third.
The Ducks should face a stern
test from UCLA and Stanford in
today's race, and Heinonen said
running on their home course
may help the Cardinal, in par
ticular “They run more on
emotion than most teams, and
they should Ik; really high for
this one.” he predicted.
This is the first of three meets
that make up the heart of the
cross country season. After the
Pac-ll) meet the women travel
to Fresno. Calif . for the NCAA
District VIII meet Nov 14 One
team from that race is assured a
berth in the NCAA title meet
Nov. 23 in Charlottesville. Va.
One at-large position may also
be granted, depending on the
results of the district meet
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