Sports______
Cross Country
Ragged performance drag
By Dave Holmes
Of The Print
within 28 seconds of each
other. At the start Cougars
Rob Durkee and Mark
Mohnen were tucked in behind
them and rounded out the
pack.
Keith Ferrell, wearing Levi’s
and basketball high-tops,
stood on a blustery knoll at
Linn-Benton Community Col
lege Saturday while his team
After 800 meters Coach Jim
mates ran in the NWAACC
Southern Region Cross Coun Kissee, after a good look at the
front-runners and then at the
try Championships.
windy sky, said, “With the
Out with a muscular injury wind what it is today, it could
to one of his legs, Ferrell, one be anybody’s race.”
of Clackamas’ top three run
ners, could only watch and
Apparently, “anybody”
mutter to himself as the didn’t include Durkee and
Cougars plodded their way Mohnen.
through the race.
At the one mile mark, the
lead pack had reshuffled itself
“Man, I wish I could run to and showed Durkee to be run
day,” he said, “I could be ning shoulder-to-shoulder
right up there.”
with Collins. But Mohnen,
The runners “right up who Kissee had said must run
there” were led nearly post to a very good race for his team
post by someone Ferrell had to win the meet, was not to be
handily defeated earlier in the seen. Sander Nelson, who also
season, someone named Rob needed a strong race for
Collins from Mount Hood Kissee, faded towards the back
Community College, who won of the field along with
the five mile race in 26:00. Mohnen on the wet and mar
Following right behind him shy course.
were Lane Community Col
“They (Mohnen and
lege’s top four runners that ex Nelson) have got to get back
ecuted what could only be call up there,” said Kissee after the
ed a “pack attack”. They runners passed the one mile
finished second through fifth marker. Somehow, though
much too far away to hear,
Nelson must have sensed what
Kissee wanted.
“I, saw Mohnen and (Phil)
Jasperson up ahead of me and
went after them,” Nelson said
after the race. He caught them
at about the three mile point
and then surged ahead.
“I’d never beaten them
before and that (going ahead)
was the only thing that kept
me in the race.”
Durkee, who finished
seventh in 26:56, seemed to
hold himself in the race by
sheer will-power.
“My legs are just flat. You
just can’t start a race in ox
ygen debt, and that’s just what
happened,” Durkee said refer
ring to a condition of
muscular fatigue. “Cardio
vascular-wise I felt great. I was
breathing through my nose
most of the way. But I just
couldn’t shake the heaviness in
my legs. I surged two or three
times to try and get it out of
my system, but it wouldn’t
leave.”
Nelson,
second
for
Clackamas and tenth overall
in 27:34, also complained of
tiredness and being “generally
dead”.
Cougar
Tony
Mulbreght said, “This was the
worst race of my life.”
Immediately after the race,
Coach Kissee, when asked
what went wrong, said, “If I
knew I’d be a millionaire. We
just didn’t get up to the
challenge, that’s all.” But
after a few minutes, Kissee
seemed to have collected
himself and- began to look
toward the NWAACC Cham
pionship Meet at McIver Park
in two weeks.
“We don’t have a meet next
week and that bye couldn’t
have come at a better time.
We’ll probably use that time
to do some team distance
workouts and rest up for the
championships.”
Despite their ragged perfor
mance, the Cougar Mens’
Cross Country team finished
second behind team winner
Lane CC, and a mere five
points ahead of third place
Mt. Hood. Rounding out the
team’s effort were Jasperson,
twelfth in 27:44; Greg Suiter,
fifteenth in 28:01; and
Mohnen finished in 28:08 for
sixteenth place.
Photo by Dan Wheeler
Mulbreght took twentieth
with 29:26, and Pat Berhdal
came in twenty-seventh in
30:52. Mark Shaver, another
Clackamas runner, ran unat-
tatched with a time of 28:46
that would have been good for
eighteenth place.
Spriggs places first at regionals
By Dave Holmes
Of The Print
Sue Spriggs at McIver Park
Photo by Dan Wheeler
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A drenched course and high
winds were the scene of the
1985 Southern Region
NWAACC Championship
Cross Country Meet held
Saturday at Linn-Benton
Community College.
Right from the gun it was a
head-to-head duel between
Sue Spriggs of the College’s
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“Times are slower here,”
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may be due to the course. It’s
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Spriggs and Gallup were in a
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the field after only half a mile.
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thought that some strategy
would be a safe gambit.
Though she had beaten Gallup
in a race earlier this season,
she hung back slightly and
positioned herself behind
Gallup.
“I felt that I had good posi
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strong, so I used Patty
(Gallup) as a wind shield,”
said Spriggs, “I felt really
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“We talked to each other
through most of the race. You
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and ’Let’s get going’.” But, as
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the half-way point in the 3.1
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lead that she was to keep for
the rest of the race.
Spriggs stretched the lead to
nearly 80 yards with a half
mile to go, After 19 minutes
and 7 seconds, Spriggs clinch
ed the Individual champion
ship. Gallop finished strongly
in second place with a time of
19:25, 30 seconds ahead of the
third place finisher.
Michelle Mickel, completely
healthy after a bout with the
flu a few weeks ago, turned in
a time of 20:15 for the Cougar
harriers, good for the eighth
place ribbon. Janet Hess and
Dena Nork ran times of 22:24
and 23:36, respectivly. Shelly
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