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CROSS-COUNTRY The Western Maryland Cross- Country program is looking toward a bright future. The men's team im- proved over last year's 2-10 record by winning seven out of eighteen total meets this year. The brightest spot is that no one is graduating Meanwhile, the women remained above .500 this season, despite the 1981 CROSSCOUNTRYRESULTS fact that programs at many other MEN schools are rapidly expanding The men's team was led this year 9/18/81 Moravian 23, WMC 36 by Dan Wilson, from Timonium, WMC 25. Allentown 31 Maryland. Other key figures this sea- 9/23/81 Gettysburg 15, WMC 50 son were Paul Boneau. Joe Hedrick, 9/26/81 Franklin & Marshall 16. WMC 47 BillMcKegg, and Shawn Armstrong 10/3/81 Susquehanna 17. WMC 42 Coach Rick Carpenter was very im- 10/7/81 Loyola 24, WMC 31 pressed "with the way the kids im- 10/10/81 WMC 15, Gallaudet 50 proved as the season progressed" WMC 15, Baltimore 50 After bock-to-bock blowouts by 10/13/81 John Hopkins 19. WMC 36 powerful Gettysburg and Franklin WMC 15, Baltimore 50 and Marshall early in the season, the 10/17/81 Messiah 25, Western Maryland 30 team regrouped and kept almost WMC 15, Alvernia 46 every other meet close 10/20/81 York 21, WMC 38 The women, however, faced the WMC 15. Elizabethtown 50 improved teams elsewhere in the 10/28/81 Lebanon Valley 17, WMC 44 conference. For example, only Dickinson 17. WMC 46 eight teams competed in the 1980 10/31/81 Lebanon Valley 24. WMC 42 MAC championships. with the Ter- WMC 23, Washington 32 rors finishing seventh. Sixteen 11/7/81 MAC Championships-WMC 19th schools competed in 1981, Western Maryland finishing eighth. Thisyear's team was led by soph- WOMEN omore Mary Lynn Schwaab and FreshmanSueStevenson. Mary Lynn 9/19/81 Kutztown Invit.- WMC 9th finished eighth in the MAC cham- 9/23/81 Gettysburg 25, WMC 30 pionships. Stevenson often tied for 9/26/81 Franklin & Marshall 21, WMC 35 first with Schwaab in key meets such 10/7/81 WMC 15.. Loyola 50 as the Gallaudet and Messiahvicto- 10/10/81 WMC 15. Gallaudet 50 ries.Unlike the men, the women will WMC 15. Baltimore 50 lose two key runners: Berit Killing- 10/13/81 Johns Hopkins 25, WMC 30 stad, a native of New York, and WMC 15, Baltimore 50 Stephanie Opdahl from Lutherville, 10/17/81 WMC 17, Messiah 44 Maryland 10/20/81 York 26, WMC 30 WMC 15, Elizabethtown 50 10/28/81 Dickinson 17, WMC 43 11/7/81 MAC Championships-WMC 8th 11/25/81 81-304