4B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday -September 14, 1998 Blue scares away Ohio, Bowling Green. Julie Froud broke the 19-minute mark for the first time this season, finishing Saturday in 18:51. LOUIS BROWN/Daily By Chris Duprey Daily Sports Writer BOWLING GREEN - Facing the No. 5 women's cross country team in the nation is a very frightening prospect. Apparently, Marshall thought so. Scheduled to run at a four-team meet Saturday alongside fellow MAC foes Bowling Green and Ohio, as well as Michigan, the Thundering Herd chickened out. Didn't show up. Just stayed home. And who can blame them? Even if Marshall did make a cameo appearance at the meet, it probably wouldn't have made much of a difference. The Wolverines took four of the top six spots in the race en route to a blowout victory. Michigan's 25 points eclipsed Ohio's 51 for first place. The Bobcats edged Bowling Green by one point for runner-up honors. "Sometimes coming out in a meet where you're pretty confident you can win helps you focus more on how you race," Michigan's Elizabeth Kampfe said. "We knew there were Parents Weekend! Campus Tours! Homecoming! -u-lm -- SAC volunteers give campus touts= plan events like Parents Weekend and Ummom ing, and show prospective students a $lies of Life at Michigan. Mem- bers can interact with alumni take leadership roles and make new friends. The Student Alumni Council meets on Sundays. To find out when the next meeting will be call 763.9755 or stop by our office in the Alumni Center lcated at the corner of Fletcher and Washington across from the MLB. The Student Alumni Council is on the World Wide Web http://www.umich.edu/-umalumni/sac/sac.html The Student Alumni Council is an organization within the Alumni Assocation of the University * of Michigan made up of students dedicated to building lifelong relationships between students and their university. some good runners today, but we really wanted to run as a pack." Having All-American Katie McGregor on your team will likely stretch out your pack time. McGregor picked up her second vic- tory in as many weeks with the same type of solid performance that has been expected of her as a team leader. The senior used the mostly flat ter- rain to her advantage, breaking the tape in a time of 17:22. Kampfe tried hard to stay up front with her teammate, but was unable to hold the pace. She did hang on to second place, finishing 17 seconds behind McGregor - and helping to dupli- cate the same 1-2 finish that pro- duced victory at the Indiana State Sycamore Classic on Sept. 5. "Hopefully, as the season goes on, we can run more as a twosome," Kampfe said. "I try to hang with Katie as much as I can." Katy Radkewich and Michelle Slater, Michigan's third and fourth runners, were also able to pack together - helping to secure the RITE DAILY SPORTS* CALL647-3336 OR ATTEND THE. ASS MEETINGS TOMORROW OR THURSDAY AT 7:30P.M. meet victory. Their times of 18:13 and 18:15, respectively, were good enough for fifth and sixth place over- all, but their racing strategy was what impressed Michigan coach Mike McGuire. "When you get to the last two or three minutes of the race, you've got to make things happen," McGuire said. "Radkewich had a couple of runners knocking on her door and she held them off. Slater was able to make up a couple of places. That's a five or six-point swing." The competition for the fifth slot is wide open with Katie Clifford, Katie Ryan and Lisa Ouellet all capable of filling the bill. Ouellet made her case on Saturday, holding her place down the stretch to finish l11 th in a time of 18:41. Having a fifth scorer by committee isn't a problem. Injuries and the occasional incon- sistent race can happen at any time, so having seven runners who are all able to score makes a coach's job eas- ier. McGuire saw progress toward Michigan's targeted pack time of 45 seconds, despite his top five runners finishing 1:19 apart in the triangular meet. "We didn't look as scattered as we were last week," McGuire said. Julie Froud's return should help the Michigan pack time decrea even more. The sophomore has been rehabili- tating her left ankle since tendinitis cut short her track seasons in the winter and spring. Frustratingly mired in the 19- minute bracket, Froud broke out of a personal funk at Bowling Green, keeping up with the Wolverines'mid- dIe runners to finish in 18:51. "I'm going to continue to take it slow," Froud said. "I'm hoping by t end of September or the middle o. October I'll be right up there." . Mixing Froud and the oft-injured Marcy Akard back into the scoring five could produce the kind of pack time that McGuire has been talking about since the '98 season started. And if all goes as planned, Michigan will likely be scaring away better teams than Marshall con* championship time. mom 01-0110 IN m IN 01 a I Resilient Radkewich" becomes contributor PRINTING LOWESTPRICES! HIGHEST QUALITY! FASTESTSERVICEI * 1002 PONTIAC TR. U 994-1367 Great Brands Polo Tommy Hilfiger Calvin Klein Student discounts on eye exams and eyeglasses Parkers now pay 8o cents per hour at downtown Ann Arbor parking meters, a 33.333% increase. --- + Hours: Mon-Tues-Thu-Fri 9-5:30 Wed & Sat 9-1 320 S. State St. (lower level of Decker Drugs) 662-1945 Richardson's Optical " By Chris Duprey Daily Sports Writer BOWLING GREEN -As the popu- lar T-shirt slogan says, 'Pain is tempo- rary. Regret is forever.' Nobody can understand this state- ment more than Katy Radkewich. As a four-time All-America selection in high school who was lauded with awards everywhere she ran, Radkewich could expect big things from her collegiate career at Providence. But it would have been too perfect had things gone smoothly. She spent almost the entire season injured on the sidelines, wearing plain clothes and plain shoes. There would be no racing spikes for Radkewich, no warm-up sweats -just disappointment. The time away from running made Radkewich stronger. After leading a disciplined lifestyle for so long, some runners would secretly welcome the opportunity to eat junk food, stay up late - amenities all afforded to non- runners. But Radkewich found out that the pain that comes with a sprint work- out in the summer heat doesn't even compare to the feeling of watching from the side. She decided to make a comeback. The Ohio native chose to start fresh. She wanted to go to a school where's would be wanted, a place where s could contribute to the lineup, but mostly, Radkewich wanted to begin her career all over again. At the same time, Michigan cross country coach Mike McGuire was struggling with a depth problem. His team had an NCAA berth stolen from it in 1997 -- not because it didn't have top runners who scored well, but because it only had top runners w scored well - without any depth. So Radkewich packed up her belong- ings and headed to Ann Arbor. And her start to the '98 season has been a resounding success. Last year it was McGregor and Kampfe, the twosome. Now it's McGregor, Kampfe and Radkewich, the trifecta. The redshirt freshman hasn't been able to keep up with Michigan's top two for an entire race just yet. But she regaining the strength and confider in her racing that hadn't been seen for a very long time. "I wasn't sure what to expect because I've been out of the running scene for so long,' Radkewich said. 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