University of Virginia Library

Harriers Run Third
In Chapel Hill Meet

By Mike DeCamps

"The key to this meet is to get
out fast early and stay ahead of the
second North Carolina State boy."
These were the words of Coach Lou
Onesty as he discussed his strategy
with his cross country team before
their triangular meet with North
Carolina and North Carolina State
last Friday.

By the end of the race it was
apparent that this strategy had not
been followed. With the exception
of Greg Lane who finished in eighth
place behind three State runners,
Virginia's second through fifth men
hung back in a pack behind State's
fourth runner the entire race.

The obvious result was defeat
for the Cavaliers, 23-34. The Tar
Heels of North Carolina who had
been heavily favored defeated both
Virginia (16-47) and North Carolina
State (25-32) to win the meet.

North Carolina State's Gareth
Hayes, who the week before had
upset last year's conference
champion, Ed Stenberg of Duke,
was the individual winner with a
time of 26:21. Kenny Helms,
captain of the North Carolina squad
finished second, eleven seconds
behind Hayes. Highly touted North
Carolina freshman Larry Widgeon
finished a disappointing seventh.

Helping North Carolina
dominate the meet were Bruce
Hafemeister in third place, Truett
Goodwin in the fifth slot, and
Widgeon. Lane followed Widgeon
across the finish line ten seconds
later with a time of 27:25. Behind
Lane for the Cavaliers were Mike
DeCamps (thirteenth), Pat Conroy
(Fourteenth), Brew Barron
(fifteenth), and Rick Katz
(seventeenth).

The meet was run over North
Carolina's five mile course, part of a
local golf course. The first mile was
relatively slow and close to fifteen
runners were within five seconds of
each other for a mile and a half.

"It looked like a set up for our
runners," Coach Onesty
commented. "We just blew it."
"Everybody was out real slow, and
I thought our boys could move
ahead easily and they just stuck
together."

Friday, the team will go against
Wake Forest. This year the
Deacons are not as strong as they
have been in past years.