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Show . ( !THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 , 2001 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SPORTS PAGE1 7 _..CROSS COUNTRY Title to be decided in Cedar City third place fillish at Cal Poly. Hi time of 25:ZO at tanford was the fourth- e t time in the conference during the season. He hould be omewnere in front for the Thunderbird -. Along ide will be junior The outbem tab niversity cros c untry team Majeed Abdul Abudu , who finished ju t ahead of will play ho t to the Mid-Cpnferen e Cro Country Moat at Cal Poly, in second place overall with a time Championships aturday, providing a little extra of26:48.5. incentive to run with the home crowd and high eth Thompson will be counted on for points, as altitud will fre hmenJared Baily and ory Jeffers, all of ·The m a will tart the meet with an 8-k.ilometer whom have bad strong bowing all eason. race at 10 a.ro. And the women will follow with a 6K Fre hmenJ.D. Neilson and Chad race at 11 a.m., with both races onada hould also contribute. The being held at Cedar Ridge Golf young team that wa uppo ed to Cour e in Cedar ity.Cedar Ridge i be rebuilding is again contending located at 200 East 900 North , for the conference title , ind has a about three mile north of UU. reali tic hot at an unprecedented ' teams are confident with fifth traighL champion ·hip. the men team I king for a fifth " I ' m gfad to have it here/ con ecutiv Mid-Con title, and the Thomp on aid. "Hopefully we 'll worn n their fourth, but ther i have a <.:r wd . W just want to run stilJ the u ual nervou nes and the be t we can and . ee what anxiety before a big race . bappen ·. All of the team in the '- Hop fully it will go alJ right," conferen e are hurting toward the oach ric Houle said. "The r ar bottom of their ro t r -, and it will some good team · thi ear, and be those sixth and seventh guy we ' r young, e p cially n the who make the difference . It 'll be men' side. W just o ed to run well inter . ting ." and do the b t we can." ince ' · inclu ion in the Mid· The teams have been unable to Con in 1997, the men have yet to practice th c u.rs due to the fio.i ·b out of first place, and the operation of th golf course, but women ha e had only one second· with the runners u ed to the high place champion hip. The 'Birds' ele ation and the urging of a succe could continue on friendly crowd, UU could have an aturday, and while the men 's advantage. team is young, there i th chance Jandee Anderson, Kelly Richards, of the teams swe ping the event Kira Thomp on, Anna ro ·by and for the fourth consecutive year. Natalie Quilter all fio.i hed in the Southern Utah University looks to add another Mld·Con Championship trophy to its " [t wiJI be a great opporrunity cop 36 at the recent meet at Cal collection. The championship will start at 1O a.m. for tht; men and 9 a.m. for the women. for people to come out and ·ee one Poly. Crosby was hurt and likely. of the most succes fuJ t am at the will not run., but with enior Robyn university." Houle said. and the Thunderbirds have the talent to finish on Adam and freshman Alisha Benzan on rounding out The meet will be spectator.friendly, with space to the group, the Thunderbird hould have a good top. view the entire course and cheer on the teams. All Junior Cody Moat, the lone returner from the chance at winning the conference championship yet awards will be presented upon completion of the champion team of a year ago, has fini hed in the top again. Having the race at home could be a big women'· race . ad antage, but it could also be a distraction. IO in every me t thi year, including a ea on-b t BY DAVE DEMILLE JOURNAL PORT WRITER Hand.ling the attention could be a key in th race. "It will be fun to have the horn town upport," Benzan on said. "We haven 't had a chance to run the cou , but we hould be all right. To me, we're lo king go d right now, and we've really been able co run as a team. We 've all been running pretty close, and if we can just stick together I think we 'll be fine ." The men' ide i young an inexperienced, but the improvement as already been evict nt th.is eason, · .-.FOOTBALL 'Birds seek second win at Troy State aturday' conte t with Troy tate. "There was no question that we were not going to SPORT EDITOR get Dustin [Randolph] into the game," Gregory aid . "Chuck [Henderson] played very well at quarterback , Things are only getting tougher for outhem Utah 's but the [ outh Florida] were e r quick to tlte ball football quad as the team travel to Troy, Ala., to face defen ively." Division I Troy tare-a team that put up 14 Troy tate is in its inaugural eason at the points again t third-ranked ebraska and Divi ion I level. The Trojan advanced to defeated Mi i ippi tate 21·9. the NCAA I-A playoff: eVi ry year the team Yes, the Thunderbirds are struggling with a was eligible. TSU has won two Division II 1-6 record and as Head Coach C. Ray Gregory national championship in 1984 and 198 . puts it he would rather c.ay home instead of T U favors the pass, averaging 205 yard traveling to Alabama. per game in the air and 95.8 on the ground. "This will be another huge ta k for u , a The Trojan defense has held opponents to great challenge, " Gregory said. "I hate to go in just 189.3 yards rushing and 234.5 pas ing the.re and play the week after playing at South yards . lorida , but that' the hand we've been d alt so ~Troy i another team that has gifted we 'll play it.~ athletes ," Gr gory said. "They have a bigUU comes off a 42-12 beating to outh time quanerback in Brock Nuner and a lorida in Tampa-a game which UU racked bunch of receivers who can give you up just 20 yards of total offen e in the first headaches. Their running back [Demontray half. The hunderbicds finished with 80 yards Carter] i a transfer from Auburn who can ru hing at SF, which mark th cond time hurt you both running and receiving. this season chat the team ha been below 100 Defeo ively they' r big, trong and fastyards on the ground. The last tim UU was they are all over th place." held under 100 rushing yard twice in a season Kickoff is et for 1 p.m . MDT and will oe On the road again! SUU travels to Alabama Saturday to take on the was back in 1995, when the team ran a pass· broadcast live on 590 AM K UB radio. Trojans. The Thunderbirds are 1-6 on the season. oriented offense under th n offen ive BY JASON ERICKSON coordinator Bart A ndru , now the head coach of the Amsterdam Admirals in the NFL European league. SUU quarterback Du tin Randolph did not play in atu.rday' game due to a mild concu ion suffered in practi e last week. Randolph i p.robabl for |