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■ SPORTS EXTRA CROSS COUNTRY Glusac leads women into Pac-10 conference meet Trevor Kearney Oocon Oa*y Immaxf The women's cross country team heads into tho Pacific -10 championships on Saturday in hopos of reclaiming tho champi onship from Stanford Tho Ducks, who have won six of eight women's Pac-10 cross country crowns since the devel opment of the women's divi sion. are led into Stanford by sophomore Milena Glusac. Glusac, who finished third at the moot lost year, is touted as the runner who could knock off defending champion Karen Hecox of UCLA. "Milena is clearly the top con tender.” cross country coach Tom Ifeinonun said. Coming off of a third-place finish at the Jeff Drenth Mentor i«l. the women are ranked nth. three spots behind Stanford And according to Helnonen, Stanford's large number of run ners makes them less suscepti ble to injuries, giving them a good chance at regaining the Pac-to title "Stanford seems to have more depth than anyone else," Huinonen said, noting that Sat urday's meet is preparation for the NCAA regional and t hampi onship meets in November. "Everyone has an idea of what they have to do to get to the NCAA's.” Hoinonen added "It's a stepping stone that gives us an idea of where we are." The conference limit for run ners is seven, and the Ducks will run Glusac. juniors Melody Fairchild and Niamh /.wager man, sophomore Christie Kngesser. and freshmen Rosy Gardner. Kaarin Knudson and Liz Howell. Gardner, whose performance nt the |eff Drouth Memorial was hindered by illness, is healthy and ready to compote, hot Engesser and Knudson are still recovering. But. according to Heinonen. the team's perfor mance should not be affected "Rosy needs to bounce back (and) I think she's ready to do that," Heinonen said, adding that Engesser and Knudson are much improved. “We think we are pretty healthy going into the meet." And after two weeks of rest. Heinonen says the team is ready for com [Hit it ion. "On the college level, you Men tune up for regional meet Trevor Kearney Oraycn LXatiy Emttrakl The men's cross country team is going into the Pacific-10 championships on Saturday thinking about one thing. The next meet. According to coach Bill Dellinger, the Pac-10 meet is not as important in terms of the season outcome as the NCAA regional championships, which decide who goes to the NCAA champi onships. "Winning this week doesn't mean anything other than we are the Pac-10 champions." Dellinger said, adding quickly that a Pac-10 title would lie good, but is not the focus of the season "Really, the meet that I think they should be playing towards to run well is the regional (moot), where the first and second teams go to the NCAA championships." Dellinger said The men are lead by junior Trac y Hollister, who finished fourth at the Jeff Drenth Memorial, sophomore Kick Cantwell and freshman Matt Davis. According to Dellinger, the three could fin ish at the front of the pack "We have three guys that could run in the front of any team that's going to be there." Dellinger said, noting that at the Jeff Drenth Memorial, there was over a minute gap between the Duck's third and fourth runners "1 think that Kii k. Tracy and Matt are going to run well .. they've been really consistent in their training and in their competi tions,” Because the rest of the Icmn is so young and inexperienced, I ho Ducks will have n tough time against Stanford, who is ranked sixth and favored to take the Pm -to title "We are still a team of three front runners look ing for the fourth, fifth and sixth to close that gap." Dellinger said But if the gap Between runners, which proved so crucial in the team's third-place finish at the Jeff Drouth Memorial, is dosed, the team could lie in the race "if we can get that gap within 10 seconds, wo an* going to ho a pretty good team," Dellinger said, "(but) that doesn't mean the front three slow down We could still 1m* a contender this year " The Ducks are in the rat e to catch sixth-ranked Stanford and llth ranked Arizona At last years meet, junior hurl heska finished llth. followed closely by Hollister, at 17th. and Cantwell at it^ntl heska, who has missed this season due to a leg injury. has been doing light workouts the past few weeks, and may ho able to run in the regional meet Despite Keska’s loss, the team's two weeks of training has indicated to Dellinger that the Ducks are ready to compute on Saturday "I think two weeks between competition is ideal in terms of being able to train and continue to make progress." Dellinger said I would like to think we're going to bo a better team this week end for the Pm -10 (meet) than sve yveru two weeks ago can't race every week." Heinonen said "We’ve got to In* able to put training time in "Training has gone very well We trained real hard." Heinonen added, that the team took off the three days before the meet in order to rest up for the competition According to Heinonen, the Pm 10 should be well repre sented to the NC.AA champi onships With Stanford and Oregon ranking in the top 12. UCLA (13). Arizona (14) and Washington (Ifi) round out the Pac-10 teams ranked in the top 25. "That means it's going to be a bit sticky in the regional (meet)," Heinonen said. "We're going to have to run I Hitter than we have all season long to win it." QAHY GHA1S.1 QIumc leads the Ducks In their quest to regain the Pec-10 title. ■ CLUB NOTES Jo«< Hood f ot ew OrtMjon fWy CtrmaKt Following a 15-0 win versus Willamette a couple of weeks ago. rugby head coach Hob Snyder thinks his team is ready for a xtiffer challenge “All of our new players came up big against Willamette," Snyder said We should have scored r>t) points against them." A scrimmage has been set for Saturday morning, just pri or to the Arizona ()rvgon foot ball tilt, against the rugby squad of Fugene "Our players unanimously agreed to not schedule the game opposite the football clash That was all right with me " Snyder said Hie team will make it's longest road trip of the season nest month to Walla Walla, Wash and then it's on to Cor valts on Nov 7 for a (avil War game of their own While most of us figure it a chore just to make it to our 8 a m class in the morning. Ore gon t row hood coach Phil liusse would consider that « luxury — crow prat tice tmgins at 5:15. "We'vtt boon on th« water now for ti t ouple of weeks, mid I'm real pleased with our jx>r forrnanco " liusse said I htur first regatta of the fall season will bo the Portland Loop on Nov 5 and the next a .week, later til Seattle ' The fall season is mainly comprised of long endurant e rat es while the spring is made up of shorter sprints," Husse said "We hope to do well in Initli hut I think we're more of a sprinting team." The men's lacrosse team is set to rip through the Chico State tournament early next month "It's our first big match of the year," head i out h Paul Lards said "It will show us where we are and where wo need to Ire. " The annual Oregon-Oregon State match up will also tie this fall in Corvallis p Gafe Oreyon/a P! ©> wiA/iis/ Va/r: J/uat Featuring: Gourmet Freru h Toast < k.»Hah twead tn *Ku owo *4*^ ti iutlf' filled and tOfjpMi with Ohj1 uwti ail-natufdl vyrup. arid vervtxJ with MW'uirHdt cuvt**»d 147 if 19th '!< V at yji/aU- ' Former!y ( he/ Ray's V.’-.U 9t LAME CO. 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