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National championship hopes
begin today for UO harriers
The Oregon men, along
with Magdalena Sandoval,
will compete in the NCAA
Championships today
Scott Archer
Freelance Reporter
It has all come to down to this for
the Oregon men's cross country team.
Three months of hard running
and accumulating at-large points se
cured the Oregon men an at-large
berth in the 2003 NCAA Champi
onships. Their
season-long
work has been
CROSSCOUNTRY about setting
_ to this point,
and while it
wasn't the way the team would have
liked to have been invited, it was still
sweet to get the invite.
Magdalena Sandoval will repre
sent the women. She took a route
similar to the men, selected by the
NCAA hierarchy.
Sandoval finished among the top
four individuals at the NCAA Western
Regional. The other three, much like
Sandoval, earned the invites despite
their teams not being chosen.
Sandoval is the third Duck individ
ual qualifier in the past seven years.
Last year's qualifier, Carrie Zografos,
also garnered All-American honors.
This is Sandoval's first NCAA Cham
pionship race.
"(I want) to be competitive and
have a race that I feel I completed to
the best of my ability," Sandoval
said. "I don't want to say I'm going
for a certain place, because I don't
have one."
The post-season team appearance
for the men marks Oregon's 29th
showing in the NCAA Champi
onships. The team first competed at
the prestigious event in 1963.
Oregon is among 13 at-large teams
to be running today in Waterloo,
Iowa, and is one of 31 teams running
in hopes of earning the champi
onship win. All in all, 255 runners
will be competing today.
Oregon is hoping for its second
consecutive top 10 finish. It finished
fifth in the nation a year ago.
"We are excited," Ryan Andrus said.
"Most of us core five guys are experi
enced; we know what to expect. This
race is a challenge, it's a different ani
mal (from other races)."
Andrus is just one-third of a piece
to Oregon's three-headed All-Ameri
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Magdalena Sandoval is the only Oregon woman heading to the NCAA Championship race.
can trio. Oregon, as it has been all
year, is relying heavily on its top three
runners in All-Americans Andrus, Eric
Logsdon and Brett Holts.
"I would like to repeat with All
American award," Eric Logsdon said.
"We need to finish somewhere in the
top 20 teams this year."
Trie Ducks will also send two-time
NCAA veteran Noel Paulson, along
with freshman Patrick Werhane. Ore
gon has one opening spot but it was
unclear who would fill the void
among Shane Ahlers, Kyle Alocrn or
Alec Wall.
The men's race is a 10,000-kilo
meter event that will begin at 11
a.m. CST.
Key to Oregon's championship
hopes is keeping down emotions.
"I don't think about it," Logsdon
said. "It's a waste of energy. It will
probably sink in more (when the
team arrives), I will be a little nerv
ous; it's definitely not just another
race. It is the most important meet
of the year."
While Oregon runners may not
have had the most consistent of years,
Andrus believes the team is trained to
peak at the end of the year while other
teams may be running out of gas.
"This is characteristic of our
team," Andrus said. "We perform
better at the end of the season, while
others are on their last leg. We are
primed and we are in a position to
(catch people)."
Scott Archer is a freelance reporter for
the Emerald.
Season finale proves no different
as California takes sweep of UO
Oregon closes its season
with a loss to California and
fails to win a Pac-10 match
By Jon Roetman
Sports Reporter
The Oregon volleyball team end
ed Pacific-10 Conference play Friday
the same way it began on Sept. 18:
With a loss to California.
The Ducks gave the No. 9 Golden
__ Bears all they
mk ■ could handle
OUlMipri in game one,
VOLLEYBALL but dropped
- the match, 3-0
(30-27, 30-11,
30-13) in front of 1,234 fans at
Haas Pavilion.
Oregon started the match on a
positive note. The Ducks led from
the beginning of game one until a
service ace by California freshman
setter Samantha Carter tied the score
at 23. The Golden Bears built a 28
27 lead and put the game away on
back-to-back service aces by junior
middle blocker Camille Leffall.
California (21-6 overall, 12-6 Pac
10) dominated the final two games.
Oregon managed only 24 points
and an .091 hitting percentage while
dropping games two and three, 30
11 and 30-13. The Golden Bears hit
.491 during the two-game stretch.
The Ducks (3-24, 0-18) closed
their season on a 19-match losing
streak and finished winless in the
conference for the second time in
three years.
Despite Oregon's struggles, head
coach Carl Ferreira said the Ducks
have stayed positive throughout the
season and have a promising future.
"I think we had the right frame of
mind about how we wanted to fin
ish the season," Ferreira said. "I'm
not disappointed in anything my
players have done. I know they have
a bright future and they know they
have a bright future as well."
Sophomore middle blocker Kelly
Russell led the Oregon attack with
11 kills and a .391 hitting dip. Junior
outside hitter Lauren Westendorf
added eight kills and freshman set
ter Heather Madison dished out 29
assists. Defensively, Westendorf,
Russell, junior libero Katie O'Neil
and freshman defensive specialist
Kandice Feola hammered out six
digs apiece.
California was led by junior All
American Mia Jerkov, who finished
the match with 15 kills and a .500
hitting clip. Jerkov, who has been
named Pac-10 Player of the Week
four times this season, added five
service aces and hammered out nine
digs.
Sophomore outside hitter Jenna
Brown ended the match with 12
kills and a .500 hitting clip, while
senior outside hitter Jessica Zatica
added seven kills. Carter finished
with a match-high 41 assists.
The loss puts Oregon's overall
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