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Sports
Wednesday, August 31,2011
Sean Gorman, Sports Editor
seangorman@my.unt.edu
being the starting line
New runners to
compete in first
meet of season
Austin Schubert
Intern
The Mean Green cross-
country season begins at 7
p.m. Thursday when the UNT
men's and women's teams host
the North Texas Metroplex
Opener behind the Waranch
Tennis Complex in Mean Green
Village,
"The course is flat with low
cut grass set up into 2 kmloops,"
head coach Sam Burroughs said.
"Girls will run 4 km and guys 6
km. This is shorter than normal
but with 90 plus temperatures,
we don't want to make them go
longer distances."
The Mean Green's 15
freshmen and four transfers will
be the only runners competing
for UNT, as Burroughs said he
will allow his five returning
runners to conserve their energy
for more important races.
"I know what my returning
runners will give me,"
Burroughs said. "This meet
is about seeing the kids that I
haven't seen race."
Thursday's meet features
five teams competing on the
women's side: UNT, SMU, Texas
Wesleyan, TCU and Dallas
Baptist. The men's teams from
UNT, DBU and TCU will race.
"SMU traditionally has
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a strong
women's
program, so
they will be
a challenge,"
Burroughs
said. "TCU
will be the
toughest
competition
on the men's
side, No
team will be
running their
A-squad,
though."
As with
any first HANNA
competition RICE
of a season, the race creates
the starting base for the teams
to build upon for the rest of
the fall, freshman Hanna Rice
"We need
to make a
statement. I'd
like to contribute
right away."
-Austin Yeager
Freshman runner
said.
"This first race is a good
starting point to see what we
need to work on in practice,"
Rice said. "It's not as impor-
H story on
its side
At last season's North Texas
Invitational, both the Mean
Green men's and women's
teams placed first.
UNT also thrived in indi-
vidual events, as Patrick
Strong took first overall in
the men's 8k race with a
time of 24:50 and Ingrid
Mollenkopf took first in the
women's 5k race, finishing
in 18:42.
tant as what we'd like to see
in October, but it's something
that helps us to find out where
we stand."
With new runners making
up the bulk of both sides, the
teams hope to prove themselves,
freshman Austin Yaeger said.
"We have something to bring
to the table with all the new
faces," Yaeger said. "We need
to make a statement. I'd like
to contribute as much as I can
right away."
Members of the men's and
women's teams expressed
desire for support at the meet
during practice.
"I hope for a good crowd
turnout," Rice said. "The
support helps motivate you
to keep pushing towards the
finish line,"
Lewis' Last Call: UNT
soccer worth watching
Opinion
Bobby Lewis
Senior StaffWriter
Football, as always, will
get most of the love from
students on campus this fall.
But let's not kid ourselves;
the UNT football team is
a four- or five- win team
at best.
The team will be much
improved from the product
it fielded during the best-if-
forgotten Todd Dodge era,
but students shouldn't make
the mistake of convincing
themselves UNT will make
some type of quantum leap
up the Sun Belt standings.
It'll be a much easier pill to
swallow in December as the
team finishes up its seventh
consecutive season without
a bowl appearance.
Obviously, Apogee
Stadium is going to be
packed on the Sept. 10 home
opener regardless of what I
write - as it should be. But
in your anticipation for the
event, show a little love to
women's soccer team.
The team has never
had a losing season or a
head coaching change
in its 16-year history. In
Sunday's 11-0 annihila-
tion of Grambling State, the
team set a record for the most
goals scored by a single team
in a game at the Mean Green
Soccer Complex. By compar-
ison, UNT's 5-0 win over Texas
Southern two days earlier
seems lackluster.
On Friday, UNT welcomes
local rival SMU to Denton in
a game that should make for
a second consecutive record-
breaking UNT soccer game.
Last season, the fans came
out to support the U NT women's
soccer team in its 1-0 overtime
loss to SMU at the Mean Green
Soccer Complex and broke the
attendance record for any UNT
soccer game with a crowd of
1,246. That record should be
broken Friday.
If you've been around the
team at all over the last week,
you'd know this game means
a lot. Those of the players
who were here last year want
revenge on SMU and the shared
sentiment amongst them and
head coach lohn I Iedlund is the
importance of the crowd.
In football, it's never neces-
sary for players to hope fans
will come out and support
the team. Football, because
of its popularity and short
season, has become somewhat
of a social event and people,
Bobby Lewis
diehard fans or not, will come
watch games no matter what.
The team's awful? Fans will
be there.
The weather's miserable?
Fans will be there-
Women's soccer is obviously
a different animal. The sport,
as a whole, got a boost from
the United States women's
national team's run in this past
summer's Women's World Cup,
but it's not exactly the jugger-
naut that football has become
in this country.
I'm not naive. I know most
who read this are much more
excited about Apogee Stadium's
opening, but check out the
women's soccer team's game
against SMU as a primer. The
last four games between the
teams have been decided by
one goal, so you're sure to see
an exciting matchup.
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