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Show Good finish in store for cross country Athletic cross country championship. champion-ship. Unless some miracle happens perennial WAC champion UTEP could leave the Utes and the rest of the pack in the dust again. However, Utah still should give BYU and Colorado State a "run" at second place and should place many runners at the WAC meet in November. The annual intra-team run is Saturday Sat-urday and Utah opens their season in Pocatello, Oct. 7. The Ute's first home meet pits them against Utah State University. Utah demolished the Aggies last year, finishing first, second, third, fourth, and seventh. Cross country coach Pete Carl-ston Carl-ston feels he has the strongest seven runners in his nine years as '.. coach and if stalwart Scott Bring-hurst Bring-hurst recovers from a pinched - nerve, Utah could have its best ,7 finish ever. J.j Bringhurst broke the national 6--! 0. mile record last year and was in-S5 in-S5 1 vited to represent the United States "mi, in Puerto Rico. He had also plan-I plan-I ned to compete in the Olympic , trials but was sidelined by the eet pinched nerve. k lr Sophomore Roger Ellis and Mark Dulaney will probably run number two and three followed c'osely by sdai Ohio 2-mile record holder Jeff Sch- ac: nell. snKi The Ute's top ten includes three sr ' seniors, one junior, two sopho-)S sopho-)S s: mores and four freshman, w "These are the greatest kids that ckoE ever lived," stressed Coach Carl-i Carl-i ston. "We don't have any of this M"i trouble with individual tutoring." ' 2C! The team members quit their jobs Ma: early and have just concluded a (e, self-financed training session at coul: LakeTahoe. Gen. Fourteen players are carried on ! j. the squad and the best seven run th0F in each meet. Each team's first five it Ji places are added up and the low Bl score wins. A team's sixth and "r p seventh runner can be instrumen-j instrumen-j tal, displacing other runners and ' sometimes meaning the difference som- in a tight contest. Utah has never won a Western M |