Duck runners third at reqionals By Dave Charbonneau The Oregon mens and women's cross country teams marie up for poor showings .it the Pacific-10 Conference Champi onships by both finishing third at the District VIII Champi onships in Woodland, Wash. Sat urday. Although the top two teams at district automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships, the Oregon women should have no problem getting an at-large invi tation because of the sue* ess they have had in other meets this sea son. The men, on the other hand, are not as much of a shoe-in. but also could get an at-large bid. After failing to defend their titles at the Pat -10 meet two weeks Ago. both the men and the women rebounded with strong performam es The women plat ed three run ners m the top 10 and finished only nine points behind second - place Stanford. As has been the rase all season, the women were led bv freshman Milena Glusai . who fought off a weeklong cold to finish sixth in the rat e Melody Fairchild finished ninth and was followed hv lenna Carlson at No. 10 The Ducks* other two scorers were Niamh Xwagormuu at 16th and loni VVareham at No Ft Arizona won the women's race with 59 points, followed h\ the (Cardinal with (i.r> and th<> Ducks witli 74 UCLA's kart'll Uncos won the individual title and teammate Hath Barthomew i amt' In right behind her for a Brum 1 2 finish Thn men were led by Karl Keska. who ran his best race of the season to finish seventh Kick Cantwell finished 12th and the other three Oregon st orers. Jason Humble. Tracv Hollister and John Dimoff. took 18th. 19th and 20th. respet tivelv The Ducks finished with 7fi points, just five points behind second-place Washington Port land easily won the men's team title with 5fi points Tired Ducks swept by Stanford, Cal By Scott Simonson Oregon Daily Emerald Thu Oregon volleyball loam is tired tired phys ically, tired emotionally and tired of losing Oregon lost its 10th and 11th consecutive match es this weekend, but Oregon head coach Gerry Gre gory seems to lie Iteyond counting streaks or records Gregory said this year’s team is "considerably better" than last year's squad, which finished the season 6-10, but the improvement hasn't meant more victories With one match remaining in the season — Fri day's contest against Oregon State — Oregon's record is 1-16 in the Pacific-10 Conference and 4 21 overall. The toll of a long season and too many losses has worn down the Docks "They're exhausted,” Gregory said. "The coach ing staff has pushed them and they have pushed themselves. They want to he successful and they want to be good, and they want to pay tin* price to be good Oregon lost l.Vfi, 15-8. 15-12 against Stiinford i'ri dav night. A shakv start hv Oregon. coupled with a strong performance hv tho sixth-ranked ( ardinnls. doomed the Dor ks "They were definitely on their game We got pro gressivelv better as the matt h went on. vve didn't score many points in the first game, hut we m ored more in the second and in the third we actually had a lead." Gregory said Oregon lost 15-10. I5-u. 10 15, 15 10 against Gal ifomia on Saturday night Oregon again had a slow start, hurting themselves with errors in ever ution against a more exponent ed and consistent Gal team Ilandling ( al’s serves was a major problem for Oregon "I give Cal a lot of credit They're a gootl team and they played a better match than we ditl I also thought that our team struggled at some things I would expect them to he better at right now. he saitl Please recycle iliis paper! “31 years of Quality Service” Mercedes • BMW • Volkswagen Audi • Datsun • Toyota —GERMAN — AUTO SERVICE, INC. 342-2912 2025 Franklin Blvd. Eugene. Oregon, 97402 WORK AND TRAVEL ABROAD Work Abroad Seminar 12:00 noon-1:00 pm Budget Travel Seminar 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Tuesday November 16th Erb Memorial Union Cedar Room E Wt'K _-5 ITfOIVff Wc ship your stuff*home! 1 to 1000 pounds Packing • Shipping Boxes vgdiapB 1 r Store 2705 Willamette Street 344-3106 I I I I I I I I I I SUBSHOP 1225 Alder 345-2434 V* t*i*i wtfh jfftr