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Cross country teams
out for regional titles
By Jake Berg
Emerald Contributor
Oregon's cross country teams
will lie confronting the ghosts
of last year’s performance when
they go to the Region VIII meet
in Fresno, Calif., on Saturday.
Kven with a national ranking
of fifth and the Pacific-10 Con
ference title in hand, the men's
team will find it impossible to
improve on the Region VIII fin
ish of the 1080 club.
Although the Ducks will be
favored to again take the team
title, there is no way they can
better last year's performance
when they scored only 15
points in sweeping the top five
individual spots.
"It was a dream come true,"
Dellinger said of the five-man
sweep. A second place Oregon
finish at the NCAA finals later
that November added to the
coach's dream.
Unfortunately for the Ducks,
only junior I’at Mailer returned
this season from those five run
ners of a year ago. Haller fin
ished third at last year's region
al meet.
Dellinger believes that Hal
ler. who placed sixth at the
Pac-10 meet two weeks ago,
has the ability to repeal Satur
day with a run similar to last
year's regional performance.
"I’at is doing really well."
Dellinger said. "He should i>e
right up there."
junior Colin Dalton will be
an individual favorite Saturday
after his overall runner-up fin
ish at (lie l'ac-10 meet. Dalton
missed last November's region
als and is in danger of an ab
sence again Saturday.
A sore leg. which limited the?
practice of the Ducks' top run
ner this week, may force Dalton
to sit out the regionals, Dellin
ger said.
Oregon's number four man.
Kick Mestler. did not compete
at the l’ac-10 meet because of a
sort* arch, and Dellinger also
lists him as "questionable" for
Fresno.
With these injuries in mind,
“we re just hoping to get quali
fied (for the NCAA Champion
ships)." Dellinger said.
Oregon must place in the top
three of the 25 regional teams
to earn a trip to the NCAA fi
nals at the University of Ten
nessee. The Ducks two main re
gional adversaries will be Fac
to runner-up Arizona and 11th
ranked Washington.
The women's squad will find
themselves in a situation oppo
site of the men’s team Satur
day. With the powerful runners
that Coach Tom Heinonen has
this year, the seventh-ranked
women should easily top last
year's fourth-place finish.
Last fall marked the first time
in Heinonen's 15-year tenure as
the Ducks' coach that he failed
to send his team to the NCAAs
Heinonen is ready for a return
to form, and his 1900 Pac-10
champions are just the team do
it, he says.
"We want to get back to na
tionals." Heinonen said 'We're
intent on getting back there."
Oregon's first and second
runners, seniors Liz Wilson
and Stephanie Wesseli, are
conference champion and run
ner-up. respectively, and both
have yet to lose to a collegiate
competitor this fall.
Huffy Rabliitt. the defending
regional winner from fifth
ranked Cal-Irvine. will give the
two Ducks their biggest chal
lenge yet this season at the
Fresno meet. C.'al-Irvine also ap
pears to be the Ducks’ largest
barrier to a regional first place
finish.
On the injury front. Lucy
Nusrala, who sat out the Pac-10
meet due to illness, is expected
to run this weekend However,
redshirt freshman )ulia Saul is
suffering from a sore arch and
may not run at Fresno.
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