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   Here are the results from the District VIII NCAA qualifier meet in Tucson
   last Saturday:
   (* = national qualifier)

          MEN                            WOMEN
  *Arizona           27           *Washington        90
  *Oregon            64           *Arizona           94
   Washington        84           *Oregon            94
   Stanford          95            Stanford         106
   UCLA             142            UCLA             122
   UC-Irvine        165            UC-Irvine        129
   Portland         198            CS-Fullerton     161
   California       206            Washington State 183
   UC-Santa Barbara 223            Arizona State    221
   CS-Fullerton     230            Portland         244
   Reno             300            Long Beach State 278
   Arizona State    323            CS-Northridge    294
   San Diego        391            CS-Sacramento    355
                                   St Mary's        374

*J. Kapkroy   Washington 30:41.7  *L. Watson     Stanford   17:20.37
*G. Stolz     Stanford   30:45.3   T. Carlson    Washington 17:31.42
 M. Keino     Arizona    31:10.9   K. Williams   Arizona    17:34.07
 J. Galindo   Arizona    31:20.0  *T. Goddrich   UC-Irvine  17:35.88
 J. Rodriguez Arizona    31:28.2   H. VanBorkulo Oregon     17:41.57

   Looks like Arizona was ready for Oregon this time.  If you do the math,
 you see Arizona's 5th man was no worse than 9th, so they must have had
 quite a pack.  Of course, they had the home course advantage.  Does anyone
 know if this was the same course as nationals last year?
   The women's team race looks like it was pretty close with the 3 top teams
 only separated by 4 points.
   As for the national qualifiers, I'm going by what I remember of the
 standards: Top two teams, top three individuals not on a qualifying team.
 There are however, some floating bids which are awarded as well, and some
 districts get 3 team bids and 4 individuals for their large size.  However,
 I don't recall if District VIII meets the size standard.
   Notes about nationals:
   No matter how Arkansas does in District VI, good or bad, it is pretty
 irrelevant to naionals, because they never run their top 7 at the District
 meet.  Instead, they run their second team, as they have that much depth.
 And considering how they ran last year at Nationals (runners finishing
 2-3 as I recall, both of which are back this year), I have to go with
 Arkansas for their third (correct me if I'm wrong) straight NCAA title.