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TRIVA QUESTION
Which college basketball
powerhouse did Jody Runge
graduate from?
FRIDAY
Oct. 16,1998
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Tennessee
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Buffalo
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Atlanta
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Minnesota
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Chicago
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San Diego
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Miami
Sagarin
Ratings
1. Kansas St 5-0
2. UCLA 4-0
3. Ohio St. 5-0
4. Tennessee 5-0
5. Oregon 5-0
6. Va. Tech 5-0
7. Nebraska 5-1
8. Florida St. 5-1
9. Texas 4-2
10. Texas A&M 5-1
11. Penn St. 4-1
12. Wisconsin 6-0
13. Florida 5-1
14. Colorado 5-1
15. Texas Tech 6-0
16. Virginia 5-0
17. Missouri 4-1
18. Ga. Tech 4-1
19. Arizona 5-1
20. La. St. 3-2
21. Georgia 4-1
22. So. Cal. 4-2
23. Syracuse 3-2
24. California 4-1
25. /Ur Force 5-1
Trivia answer
Runge was a two
time Southeastern
Confernce all-acad
emic selection at the
University of
Kentucky.
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Seniors Nicole Strange (left), Natasha O’
Brien (center) and Sonja Curtis should play leading roles this season.
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Women should be contenders
Oregon hopes that key
injuries won’t hamper its
prospects this season
By Joel Hood
Oregon Daily Emerald
If early-season predictions hold
true, the Oregon women’s basket
ball team should contend for the
Pacific-10 Conference title until
the end of the season.
Addressing the media for the
first time Thursday, head coach
Jody Runge said she was “excit
ed” about the Ducks’ upcoming
season and “very impressed”
with the physical shape of her 12
returning players from the seven
month off season.
Yet two keys injuries still re
main.
Six-foot-5 center Jenny Mowe
said she is still hampered by the
tendinitis in her right knee that
forced her to miss all but four
games last season.
"On a scale of about one to 10,”
Runge said, “Jenny will be play
ing at a pain level of about three.
That's much better than last sea
son, when she was up around
10.”
As a freshman in 1996, Moe av
eraged 6.9 points and 14.5 min
utes a game and was voted to the
Pac-10 all-freshman team.
Another question mark sur
rounds the left knee of sopho
more forward Brianne Meharry,
who filled Mowe’s shoes at the
center position last season before
tearing her anterior cruciate liga
ment in a game against Arizona
State.
Runge said Meharry is close to
about 80 percent right now, but
her injury is one that may not be
completely rehabilitated until the
end of the season.
"We’re reserving judgment
right now on those injuries until
we’ve had a good week of prac
tice and see how the increase in
intensity affects [them],” Runge
said.
The only certainty to this
point, Runge said, is that if the
Ducks can remain relatively
healthy throughout the season,
they will be able to compete with
any team in the Pac-10 — maybe
the country.
“It’s hard to go out on a limb,
but I’d say we’re good enough to
win the Pac-10 championship,”
Runge said. “I think we can be
good enough to win a preseason
NIT championship. I think we
can be, with some luck, as good
as any team in the country."
With only three first-year play
ers on the current roster, Oregon
has experience and depth at near
ly every position. But the real
key, sophomore forward Angeli
na Wolvert said, is to find the
right combination of players on
the court at the same time.
Oregon, which finished 17-10
last season en route to its fifth
consecutive NCAA Tournament
appearance, begins its exhibition
schedule Nov. 3 at McArthur
Court against Sweden Alvik and
it’s conference season begins Jan.
2 at home against California.
Ducks try
for record
setting wins
Home victories against
Washington and Washington
State would guarantee Oregon
its best-ever overall record
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
Here is a scary thought for the Oregon
women’s soccer team’s opposition: The
Ducks have yet to play a complete game up
to their standards, according to head coach
Bill Steffen.
Coming on a 3-0
blanking of Oregon
State last Friday, and
a 1-0 loss to No. 7
Portland on Tues
day, the Ducks (4-4-2
overall, 1-0 Pacific
10 Conference) will
be looking to put it
all together in Pac-10
matches against
On tap
Who: Oregon vs
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When: Today, 3 p.m.
Where: Pap6 Reid
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ton State at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Papd Field.
“I think what we need to do is give our
best effort to get 90 good minutes together,”
Steffen said. “Against Portland we had good
minutes, against Oregon State we had good
minutes, but I think we need to keep work
ing toward our goal of playing 90 good min
utes."
Oregon, which boasts an undefeated
home mark of 3-0-2, has the opportunity to
gain its first-ever wins against both the
Huskies and Cougars. The Ducks, who won
just five games in each of their first two sea
sons, could also ensure their best-ever over
all and conference win totals with two vic
tories.
Washington (5-6-1,1-1) arrives in Eugene
with a misleading record because four of its
six losses are to top 10 teams.
The Huskies opened Pac-10 play at home
with a costly, 2-0 loss to UCLA last Friday
in which goalkeeper Leslie Weeks suffered a
season-ending knee injury. Washington was
then forced to convert defender Kristin
Shaw to goalkeeper against Southern Cali
fornia, but it still bounced back for a 3-2
win.
“They’ve definitely improved since last
year,” Huskies’ head coach Lesle Gallimore
said of the Ducks. “So we’ve got to come out
and make good use of the chances that we
can get on them.”
cross country teams prepare for first home meet
Oregon runners try to capture
an at-large spot so they can go to
the NCAA Championships
By Scott Pesznccker
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon men’s and women’s cross
country teams will run at the Oregon Invi
tational on Saturday at Alton Baker Park.
The men’s 8k will begin at 11:15 a.m. and
the women’s 5k will begin at 10:30 a.m.
The invitational is the last regular-season
meet for the Ducks, who usually have oidy
one home meet a year.
However, this season Oregon will also
host the Pacific-10 Championships on Oct.
31, making this weekend’s invitational
more important.
Both Duck teams will have the chance to
observe how well their competition handles
the course. And because Oregon will be the
home team, they have an edge that no other
team will have — the ability to run the
course as much as it takes to learn it.
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Running tor the Ducks
will be Andrew Bliss,
John Wybar, Sam Hill,
Ross Dammann, Derek
Schueren and Felipe
Monture. The No. 3
men’s team will use this
weexena to rest me team s top runners who
competed in the Pre-NCAA in Lawrenece,
Kansas, last Saturday.
“This will be a good race for the group of
guys who didn’t go to Kansas,” men’s head
coach Bill Dellinger said. “It will give those
guys an opportunity to get into the group of
seven guys who will go to the NCAA.”
Earning an at-large spot to the NCAA
Championships is now a strong possibility
Turn to CROSS COUNTRY, Page 16A
Matt Hankins/F.merald
The Ducks have been training hard in the weeks leading up the the Oregon
Invitational on Saturday