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Emerald TUESDAY November 21,1995 R p r. TOOAY IN SPORTS Oregon setter makes all-academic team Oregon setter Casey Crisier was one of six student-ath letes selmrttxl to the Division I District VIII Aindemu A11 - America Vollevhall Team. Crislwr maintains a ,1.97 GPA in Fine and Applied Arts. Crisier, a former walk-on. colltx tod 55 assists, one shy of her career-high, on three separate occasions and led the team with 29 service aces "Casey works hard in the classroom and truly deserves this award." said Cathy Nol son, Oregon head coach Whittle highlights Duck football awards Senior tailback Ricky Whittle was presented the Hoffman Award as the Ore gon football team's most out standing player at the Oregon football banquet on Sunday. Senior defensive end Trov Hailey won the Wil Gonyea Award, given to the team’s most inspirational player, while freshman kicker Joshua Smith was awarded the Len Casanova Award for being the team's top first year player. Other players honored ware senior inside linel>acker Jeremy Asher (Hob OfFu er Award), senior outside line backer Paul Jensen (Elmer Sulstrom Award), junior offensive tackle Paul Wiggins (Oregon Club of Portland Award), junior outside line backer Derrick Barnes (Cor don Wilson Award) and sophomore comerbnek Ron nie Gipson (Clarke Award). Ducks finish strong season with strong meet ■ CROSSCOUNTRY: men's and women's teams capture their best finishes m recent history the Oregon women's cross country team captured fifth place mid the moo's team fin ished sine nth ill Ifn' N( \A Championships at Iowa Statu u 11 111'm u on Monday The mens and women's teams fin ished strong seasons with strong national per formances as both squads notched the best team finishes in FAIRCHILD the past several years Oregon senior Melodv Fairchild placed ninth and senior Jenna Carlson finished t5th to lead the Out ks to fifth place, matching performances set in 1990 and 1991 Sopho more Matt Davis finished 15th to load the men to their U>st fin ish since plat ing fifth in I'l'K) Fairchild had one of the strongest rai es of her year and. head coach Tom Hoinonnn said, maybe of her i areer ’Melody hud her sights set on a top 15 finish." he said "She ran maybe her iw*st rar e over us a collegian She was in 15th at the half-way mark and wouldn't be denied." Providence won the women's meet with BH points, roc (living their first NCAA title in any sport. Colorado placed second followed bv V'iUnnova. Brigham Young and Oregon with l?4 points Wisconsin s Kathy But ier won the individual ti11 *» in 16-minutes. 51 seconds Heinonan said he was pleased with the overall team effort, adding that the course and the weather made the rat e more of a challenge The temperature was about as degree* with winds at 20 to :tt) mph and gusts of up to 40 mph, Helnonen said, adding that the weather conditions parti* ularlv affected Carlson "Jenna was fnw/.mg cold and fust never war mod up.” Heinonen said It was still her Iwst performance at the NCAA llutit The top IS get awards and the Pm ifii 10 Conference had n third of the top !S runners." Senior Milena Gliisac finished ■nth, freshman Marie Davis came in 50th and sophomore Rosy Gardner placed 77th to round out Oregon's si oring con tingent Junior Niamh /.wagger man and sophomore Kaarin Knudson platted 150 th and 175th Milena moved up from noth at the half-way mark and Marie and Rosy moved up from between Roth and 88th n Ith a mile to go. Heinonen said "Niamh got a side stiti h with about (UK) meters to go and went from 90th to 150th." Heinotum said the team ran hotter than they did at the I’m 10 meet, but not a* well as at the District VIII rat t> We wanted more,” Hetnonen viid "Hut they ran the best they could today and that is what vmt have to e\(n*t t at the tuition als." Oregon's men's team wok the only team to run with )ust five runners in the rat e, and all of them stored junior Karl keska finished an um.harat teristu 14th at the national meet after winning both the Cat it) Cham pionship and the District VIII meat Rick ( outwell plat ed 4t)th with David Gurry at his heels in ■list pln< e l r.it v Hollister, who hail not run competitively since the Jeff Orenth Memorial in Kugone on Oct 14. was the Dm k>. final m orer at ltiSth Arkansas won the men's title, their fourth in the last five years Northern Arizona received run ner up honors, followed by Oklahoma State, Colorado, Stan ford. Georgetown and Oregon Arkansas Godfrey Siamusiya won the men's title in to on Can Cotton Bowl draw fans without a Texas team? ■ COTTON BOWL: The 60th anniversary of the bowi is only the ninth without an instate team participating DALLAS (AP) — Will the Cot ton Bowl be a hit without a Texas team? After landing No. 8 Colorado and No 12 Oregon for their mar quee, organizers of the Jan 1 classic are more hopeful than optimistic. Without a Texas team in the 60th annual classic, it remains to be seen if enough fans of the Duck* and Buffaloes will migrate south to fill the 68,252 Cotton Howl •»«.!<»! s A Texas team ha# played in all but nine of the 59 Cotton Bowls And former Southwest Conference-member Arkansas, a close neighbor, played in eight of the nine non-Texas games The only game between schools from outside the region pitted Clemson and Boston Col lege in 1940 The game drew 15.000 fans “We're going to have to have some sales effort here in the 1 )a 1 las area in order to fill it up. but we all know what kind of foot ball fans we have here.” said John Craw ford, president of the Cotton Howl Athletic Associa lion " I'he fat l that vve don't have a Ttixais team I don't know if were troubled by tHitt We've got higher-ranked loams than we've find a in .1 good while " The Cotton Bowl h;td featured the SW(. t hump since lo t t. but with the SWC dissolving after Ibis season, that association ended after last season's game between Southern (.ali forum and Texas Tin h Under the new Tier l Bowl Aliiam e. the national champi unship game was awarded to the Fiesta. 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