SPORTS
Cross country teams headed back to NCAAs
By Jake Berg
Emerald Sports Reporter
Oregon's cross country teams now have but one hur
die to jump before turning a good season into a great
one.
Yet to lose a meet this fall, the women survived
fifth-ranked Cal Irvine by a point for first place at the
regionals. and a third-place finish at Fresno for the
men's team sets them up for the national meet Nov 19
at Knoxville. Tenn.
Teams finishing in the top three automatically ad
vance to the NCAA meet.
Seniors Liz Wilson and Stephanie W esse 11 and soph
omore Nicole Woodward placed in the top 10 at the re
gionals to lead the Pacific-10 Conference champion
Ducks past the Big West Conference champs by a slim
49-50 score.
"I'm really happy with our performance this week
end." said (touch Tom Heinonen ‘'Their goal was to
focus in ami lin'd tlie i Inditing)* tins weekend, and
they did
Wilson and Wessell. who had not lost to a collegiate
runner previous to the Region \ III race, finished third
and sixth, respectively, over the .3,000-meter course,
and Woodward landed in ninth plai e
Huffy Ruhhitt. the PC Irvine runner who took lirst at
the regional* a year ago, successfully defended her li
tie Saturday with another top performance Kahhitt ran
nine seconds lieltnr than last year's time to lies! the in
dividual field Second-plat e Bridget Smy th of Arizona
ran in 10 47.7 to Kahhitt s winning run of 10:44 0. and
Wilson clocked in at 10:50.2 for third
Sixth place at Fresno lias (income accustomed to
Wessell: she took sixth at the meet last November and
also on Saturday, but managed to knock 13 seconds off
her time from last fall Wessell completed the course
in 17:03 5 this weekend
Other Out ks times included Woodward .it ninth in
t7 14 I (almost 411 seconds lietter than her I'lH't run),
junior l.uc v Nusrtila ran 17 24 4 fur 12th |jlm:e. and
sophomore Carol Dolmen's loth place was limed at
17 414
Heinonen had taken a team to the NCAA Champion
ships every year since 1‘I75 until last fall's squad
failed to make the t lit The coach said he felt relieved
that next week will mark Oregon's return to form
"It's great to lie taking a team Imck to nationals.''
said Heinonen "We're readv for the NCAAs, no doubt
in my mind
The regional meet had men's Coach Hill Dellinger
hoping that the absence of junior Colin Dalton. Ore
gun's top runner Ibis season, would have little effei t
on the Dm ks.
Dellinger si ratched Dalton oft the list of his runners
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OREGON
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took tin! lead at 12-11 Wash
ington then tied the game at
12-12 and pulled away to win
the first game.
The Ducks gut the momen
tum going in game two and got
out to an H-4 lead It was a
hard-fought battle after that
The Huskies tied the game at
12-12 and the Ducks tied it
again at lll-M. but Oregon
came awav winning the second
game and tving the match at
11.
Doth teams exchanged the
lead a few times in the third
game, but like the first game
the Huskies took control and
didn't look hack to grab a 2-1
edge in the match
The Ducks answered back in
the fourth game, jumping out
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to <i !l-2 lead before squander
inn the lead .is the Huskies
pulled to within 12-11. The
llui ks forced <t fifth game hy
running off three straight
points
After trading many sideouts
earlv in the fifth game, both
teams slaved i lose to eai h oth
er The game remained this
way; tied several times includ
ing a 12-12 tie The Huskies
however, pulled nwev tor Itie
final lime, rattling off three in a
row to win the mal< li
"The mati h couht have gone
either way." Oregon Coach
(ierry Oregon said "Tltere
were some breaks that went to
both teams at different times It
was one ol the most exciting
vollevlmll mate ties that I've
ever been assoi lated with
W atkins had a mail h-lugli 111
kills while Oregon setter Molly
Met hath led everyone in digs
with r> Outside hitter Mi
i belle Keid led the Huskies
with I a kills and 1 > digs
"I think that evervhodv per
tunned well." Oregon said "It
was definitely a great team el
tort and although we came out
on the losing end, I almost feel
like we won tonight
DUCKS
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based near Dusseldorf mak
ing its first tour ot the Unit
ed States, went on .1 Hi t
run against Oregon s bent h
in the final si\ minutes, led
li\ Kim.is kurtinaitis. who
had I I ill his Hi lust halt
puinls during the run
kurtinaitis. a member o!
the Soviet National Team,
was a headai he all dav lor
the I)ui ks t he ti i, HI veal
old guard finished the name
w ith Hi points mi 11 _ t
shooting and had five assists
despite i (instant hounding
hs Mimui and freshman for
ward lordy l.vdi n
Mimiii. the Dm ks senior
shooting guard was dealt
ttit- difficult assignment of
guarding Kurtinaitis most of
tin' game and did a mui li
better |nl> than the final st.it*>
showed
lie's a great player."
Mixon said "and the\ were
really selling a tremendous
amount of si mens out there
I he\ really hay e an under
standing lor the game They
not only pit k you a lot. but
they knoyy how to gel him
the hall
Oregon led li > 70 yy ilh lust
under two minutes left But
kurtineilis hit a jumper in
the key and a desperation
three pointer to pull Ifrandt
Hagen yyilhin one helore
Mixon and life hit tree
throyy s to u e it lor the
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