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Harriers Thump ODC;
Defeated By Terrapins

By Mike DeCamps
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

"This is what we've been working
for all season, and now is our
chance to show the conference and
state schools just how much improvement
we have had over the
year."

This is cross country coach Lou
Onesty's appraisal of what's in store
for the Virginia harriers this weekend
after winding up their dual
meet season Friday and Saturday
afternoons with a loss to conference
power Maryland and a victory
over Old Dominion.

Friday the state meet will be
held over the Washington and Lee
course in Lexington, and on Monday
conference schools will gather
here in Charlottesville for the
Atlantic Coast Conference meet.

Coach Onesty is hopeful that
Cavalier depth will pay off in these
two meets, depth that other conference
schools like North Carolina
State do not have. State with two
outstanding runners defeated the
Virginia squad during the regular
season, but in a conference meet
where Virginia can hope to put all
its runners in a pack at the finish,
the outcome could be entirely
different.

This was exactly the case Saturday
afternoon against Old Dominion
as six Cavalier harriers finished
in the top seven to give Virginia a
17-45 win. Captain Rick Katz, as he
has been all season, was the first
harrier in, but he was hard-pressed
this time by teammate Phil Meyer
who has come on strong late in the
season.

Katz's winning time was 27:57,
but this was far short of the course
record set Friday afternoon by
Maryland's human oxygen tank,
Charlie Shrader. Shrader's winning
time Friday was 26:04.

A combination of endurance
and eight cross-country scholarships
by Maryland did the Cavaliers in,
15-49. Virginia's final dual meet
record is 3-5.