Men’s, women’s teams qualify for NCAA championships
The men finished second
behind Stanford, while
the women finished with
a close fourth place
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
When the Oregon men’s and
women’s cross country teams
traveled to Fresno, Calif., to com
pete at the NCAA West Regional
meet last Saturday, only one thing
was for certain — success was a
must.
Both Oregon teams have made
it their goal this season to compete
in the NCAA Championships,
which will be held in Lawrence,
Kan., on Nov. 23. But the presti
gious national competition can
only be reached by a strong perfor
mance at the regionals.
And a strong performance is ex
actly what tiie Ducks delivered. At
the regional meet, the men’s and
women’s teams both qualified for
the NCAA Championships.
The men finished in second
place with a final team score of 65
points, advancing to the national
competition for the fourth consec
utive year. No. 2 Stanford won the
meet with a final score of 37.
“We completed our objective,
which was to qualify,” men’s head
coach Bill Dellinger said. “We
would have liked to have been a
little closer in second place, but
our guys ran well. They did what
they had to do, which was quali
fy.”
Senior Matthew Davis led the
Ducks, finishing third overall with
a time of 30 minutes, 37 seconds.
Davis’ performance made it his
best-ever regional meet, surpass
ing his fifth-place performance in
1996.
Davis’ time was even more im
pressive considering he had not
worked out all week as he was suf
fering from a cold.
“He had a cold all week, so he
was not able to do his normal
workouts,” Dellinger said. “He ran
very well. He’s getting over his
cold, but he’s still coughing a lot. 1
didn’t know how well he would
run because he had no workouts,
but he ran very well.”
Following
Davis was Steve
Fein and Rob
Aubrey. Fein
finished eighth
overall with a
time of 30:53
and Aubrey,
who was also sick and did not
work out last week, finished in
30:58.
Andrew Bliss, who earned a
spot on the active roster at the Ore
gon Invitational on Oct. 17, con
tributed to the effort by finishing
22nd. Micah Davis finished in
23rd. Lincoln Nehring and Adam
Bergquist finished but did not
score for the Ducks.
“Adam got a cramp in his ham
string, and Lincoln didn’t have
the best race of his season,”
Dellinger said. “Other than that,
the guys ran well.”
Washington State finished the
meet in third place with a score of
129, and Arizona finished in
fourth place with 133. Arizona’s
Abdi Abdirahman won the indi
vidual title with a time of 30:06.
The women finished in fourth
place with a final team score of
118, falling short of third place
Washington, which finished with
a score of 110. The team’s perfor
mance earned the Ducks an at
large invite to the NCAA Champi
onships.
“Our goal was to place better in
dividually than we did at the [Pa
cific-10 Conference Champi
onships],” women’s head coach
Tom Heinonen said in a released
statement. “We did that even with
120 more runners in this race. ”
The No. 16 Ducks accom
plished another goal at the region
als by beating No. 14 Arizona
State. The Sun Devils beat the
Ducks on two previous outings
this season, including the Pacific
10 Conference Championships at
Alton Baker Park on Oct. 31.
“We jumped past Arizona State
in the qualifying race and beat the
other teams we had to beat,”
Heinonen said in a released state
ment. “This was a really good step
at a critical time for us, and after
the race the women were really ex
hilarated.”
Marie Davis posted her best fin
ish at a regional competition by
placing fourth overall with a time
of 16:58. Heather McMahon also
set a new personal best at a region
al with a 17th-place finish in
17:27.
Liz Howell finished in 29th,
Katie Crabb finished 33rd, and
Annie Ebiner rounded out the
team with a 37th-place finish.
Robyn Sutherland and Lisa Jansen
did not score.
The Wildcats won the women’s
race with a score of 78. Arizona’s
Amy Skieresz won the individual
title with a time of 16:26.
Two Kentucky football players involved in fatal car accident
By Tim Whitmire
I he Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A truck
carrying two Kentucky football
players on a deer-hunting trip
flipped on a rural highway Sun
day, killing one of them and injur
ing starting center Jason Watts.
Another man, who was not on
the team, was also killed in the
early-morning accident in which
the pickup truck veered off the
highway and then swung back
onto the road before rolling over.
Killed were Arthur Steinmetz,
19, of Edgewood, a defensive line
man, and Scott Brock, 21, of Hy
den.
Watts, the driver, was in fair
condition Sunday after being air
lifted to Lexington’s University of
Kentucky Medical Center from
Lake Cumberland Regional Hos
pital in Somerset. Brock and
Steinmetz were pronounced dead
at the scene.
Watts suffered a severe lacera
tion of his forearm and was to
have surgery Monday to begin
cleaning the wound and repairing
the damage, Kentucky athletic di
rector C.M. Newton said at a Sun
day eveningnewscon ference.
Kentucky’s director of media re
lations, Rena Vicini, said about
two dozen teammates had come to
see Watts in the emergency room
Sunday.
Watts was aware of what had
happened and was grieving, said
Newton. Vicini described the
scene as “very emotional."
The accident occurred just
hours after Kentucky (7-3) defeat
ed Vanderbilt 55-17 on Saturday
at Commonwealth Stadium.
Watts was one of the players hon
ored during Senior Day cere
monies on the Reid that were at
tended by his parents.
Pulaski County Sheriff Sam
Catron said the accident hap
pened about 60 miles south of
Lexington.
Catron said the 1985 Chevy
truck in which the men were trav
eling drifted onto the shoulder of
the road. Watts apparently got the
truck back on the pavement but
overcorrected, sending it across
the two-lane highway and off the
other side, throwing all three men
from the vehicle, Catron said.
None were wearing seat belts.
According to Newton, Watts
walked to a nearby farmhouse for
help. In addition to the cut to his
forearm, which stretched from his
elbow to his wrist, Watts suffered
a number of bruises and other
cuts.
Catron said the weather was
clear at the time and police were
investigating. He said investiga
tors took blood samples from
Watts for alcohol testing, a routine
step in such cases.
Newton said he had been given
no indication alcohol was in
volved in the accident.
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