Late additions add depth
■A transfer, a walk-on and a
returning redshirt give the
Oregon cross country teams
extra runners
By Robbie McCallum
Oregon Daily Emerald
An already deep Oregon cross
country roster got a depth change in
the month of September.
Carrie Zografos, a junior transfer
from Colorado, joined the team last
Saturday at the Roy Griak Invita
tional in St. Paul, Minn. The Port
land native and Central Catholic
High graduate was Oregon’s sev
enth runner in Minnesota, placing
119th in a time of 23:09.
On Sept. 9, Zografos competed
unattached at the Pier Park Invita
tional in Portland. Her time of 19
minutes, 41 seconds over the 5,000
meter course placed her sixth
among Oregon entrants. The race
was Zografos’ first since competing
as a freshman at Colorado.
Additions to the men’s team in
clude a walk-on and a redshirt
freshman who have already made
an impact. John Lucas, a redshirt
freshman from Eagle Point, was the
Ducks’ fifth runner at the Roy Griak
Invitational, helping the Ducks se
cure a seventh-place finish. Lucas
placed 67th out of 219 participants.
Freshman Mike Pluth, a Eugene
native, has also joined the team. On
Sept. 16, Pluth helped the Oregon
“B” squad to the team title at the
Bearcat Open at Salem’s Bush Pas
ture Park. Pluth was the Ducks’ fifth
runner, placing 30th in a time of
23:16 over the 4-mile course.
Snubbed
Despite respectable showings at
the Roy Griak Invitational, both
cross country squads dropped in
the national polls released last Mon
day.
The men, who began the season
ranked ninth, fell to the 16th spot.
The women dropped all the way
from the 12th spot to No. 24.
Considering that the women were
( ( Katie [Crabb] and Eri
[MacDonald] got out really
fast and pa id for it later
on... but I think they’ll
learn from this race.
Tom Heinonen
head coach
Oregon cross country tea
h
without sophomore Tara Struyk, the
top returning runner from 1999, and
freshman Annette Moseyat Min
nesota, the Ducks placed well.
The next edition of the polls will
be released on Monday.
New PR’s
Senior Michael Kasahun got his
2000 cross country season off on the
right foot with a breakthrough race
at the Roy Griak Invitational. The
transfer from Fresno City College set
a new 8,000 meter personal best Sat
urday, running in a time of 24:48.
Running as the top Duck for the
first time, Kasahun eclipsed his old
personal best by 13 seconds. He also
ran a minute faster than he did last
year on the same course.
Sophomore Jason Hartmann,
Oregon’s second runner, also ran a
personal best. Hartmann ran 24:52
over the 5-mile course.
Rocky switch to 6k
The Oregon women’s first 6,000
meter race, the new NCAA standard
distance for women’s races, was a
semi-sucessful one.
Although the Ducks placed sev
enth overall at the Roy Griak Invita
tional, head coach Tom Heinonen
said that some of his runners went
out too fast for the 3.72-mile race.
“Katie [Crabb] and Eri [MacDon
ald] got out really fast and paid for it
later on,” Heinonen said. “But I
think they'll learn from this race.
Katie was still 12th with a mile to
go, but ended up 34th. Eri went out
hard, faded in the middle and then
came on strongly towards the end.
Rhiannon [Glenn] was pretty solid
and had a nice finish, Laura [Har
mon] said she had too much left in
her first college and 6K race.”
The remainder of Oregon’s races
will be 6,000 meter races.
Coming up
The Ducks will have a two-week
break in action before their next
meet, the Pre-NCAA meet in Ames,
Iowa. The meet is at the same course
that will be used for the NCAA
Championships on Nov. 20. Iowa
State will host the meet, using its
home course of 10,000 and 6,000
meters. ,
Huskies
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Autzen is going to have to be
rockin’ even harder than it was
last week.
I haven’t seen the Ducks lose
yet, and I don’t plan on seeing it
this weekend. I not only want to
gloat in front of my friends back
home and laugh at my parents for
not respecting the big green, but
after Oregon’s big win I’m going to
call that radio station again and
tell ‘ern who really sucks.
But I’ll let the football team
speak for itself on Saturday.
Adam Jude is a former Seattle native who
came to his senses and escaped “The Dark
Side.” He can be reached at ajude34@ya
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