Runners reach heart of season By Dave Chartoonneau Oregon L>&*y ttnereid The Oregon men's and women’s cross country teams will get into the heart of the schedule this weekend os the women head north for the Sun dodger Invitational in Seattle, and the men com pete in the Willamette Invitational in Salem The women got off to a strong start at last week end's Mountain West Classic, finishing third. It was actually the Ducks' second meet of the season, but was the first time the women ran with their top squad. Oregon managed to place three runners in the top eight and was solid from top to bottom. The most impressive aspect of last week's race was freshman Milena Glusac finishing second among collegians. Veterans Jenna Carlson and Niarnh Zwagerman also put in notable performances, fin ishing fifth and eighth, respectively. "We raced really well." women's head coach Tom Heinonen said. "What we accomplished after two weeks of training together was encouraging. Milena got off to a fabulous start, led in the second kilometer and ran well all the way to the finish." Even with his new recruit having an incredible debut in an Oregon uniform. Heinonen seemed more impressed with Carlson and Zwagerman’s performances. "Jenna and Niarnh ran better than they ever have in cross country," he said. Melody Fairchild took second in the first meet of the season, but slipped to 30th last Saturday. "The race was a little frustrating for Melody." Heinonen said. "But she’ll make progress with each meet." The Ducks are currently ranked eighth in the nation and will have a good chance to move up with a strong performance Saturday. Top-ranked Arkansas will he the favorite at the meet Cornell, Missouri. Utah, and Pacific-to Con ference foe Washington State are some of the larg er s< hools participating in the meet On the men's side, it might seem at first that last week's sixth-place performance was disappoint ing. but not so. said head coach Bill Dellinger. "Actually. I thought we ran pretty well in Mon tana." he said. "Everybody ran better than they did last year over that same course." Still, the finish caused the Ducks to drop from eighth to 15th in the national poll Dellinger said not much more could have been expected from bis team, which was having only its first meet of the season. “We were not ready for that kind of competition this early," Dellinger said. "We ran against schools that had already had two or three previous races." Keska will not run Saturday, nor will Scott Nicholas or Kic k Cantwell, who were the second and third Oregon finishers last weekend. Instead. Dellinger will use the meet as an oppor tunity to look at his younger talent, including freshman Goss Lindsey and redshirt freshman Dietrich Wieland The rest of the Duck roster for Saturday includes John Dimoff. iason Humble, Gordon Johnson, Tim Mahon and ('.had Schacht. Both the men and the women will he off next week before hosting the Jeff Drenth Memorial at Alton Baker Park Oct lft Ducks fall to Arizona, drop to 0-4 in Pac-10 By Scott Simonson Oregon Daily tmerald Arizona volleyball bend coach David Rubio hoped Thursday night wouldn't be the night for the Ducks. It wasn’t. Oregon remained winless in conference play as the Wildcats beat the Ducks handily, winning 15-8, 15-7, 15-3. The Ducks dropped to 0-4 in the Pacific-10 Conference and 3 9 on the season. The loss was the fifth straight for the Ducks, although four of the defeats dur ing the losing streak have come at the hands of nationally ranked opponents. Before the match, Rubio sounded wary of the Ducks. “Even though Oregon is 0-3 in the conference, they can't l*> tak en lightly," he said. "They are a good team It's just a matter of when they'll get on a roll. 1 hope it's not against us." Rubio apparently had no trou ble keeping the Wildcats from overlooking the Ducks. Arizona, ranked 20th nationally, tallied a blazing .467 hitting percentage in winning the first game. Ore gon hit .209 in the first game. Arizona's hitting cooled off a little in the next two games, hut Oregon's hitting all but disap peared . The Ducks hit .070 in the second game and .000 in the third. Arizona hit .361 for the match, marking the third straight contest where an Ore gon opponent has hit over .300. The Ducks hit .130 for the match. The Ducks recorded 36 kills for the match, compared with 69 for the Wildcats. Quick hitter Karissa Meitli led Oregon with 13 kills. Swing hit ters LaReina Woods and Kristen Kuschiensky each had six kills Ruschiunsky led the Ducks with a .313 hitting percentage. Katie Kerr and Anna Gomez again split time at setter, with each player contributing 14 assists. Woods tallied a team high 14 blocks. The Ducks now travel to Tempo for a match against Ari zona State on Saturday. 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