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 Turn to REGIONALS. Page 16 OREGON Continued from Page 9 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 South Eugene Chiropractic Center * Sports Injuries * Stress Reduction * Chronic Postural Problems Dr. Frank F. Muhr 396 E. 18th St. 683-9070 v u Student rates Near Campus Work Overseas! Britain, Ireland. France, Germany. Canada. 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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 Continued from Page 11 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 Dili ks i 13th & Kincaid M F 7 30-6 00 SAT 10 00-6 00 346-4331