Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |

    

By Kira Vincent
STAFF WRITER

The Illinois Tech women’s cross
country team has worked their way up the lad,
der in the national rankings this season and
have earned a solid place within the confer,
ence The preseason rankings placed them at
fifth in the conference and did not even have
them listed in the top 25 nationally The first
poll of the season moved them up to third in
the conference and had them breaking into
the top 25 national ranking for the first time
in the history ofIIT at 23rd out of 204 teams

The women held strong for the next
few weeks, and last week due to their imprese
sive performance at the 40th Annual Sean Earl
Loyola Lakefront Invitational, the IIT women’s
cross countryteam movedto 17th inthe nation,
al ratings and second in the conference There

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are only two races left in the season before the
conference meet, and the women are prepared
to perform well in both events and continue
moving up in the ratings The team is hoping
to earn a chance to run at the national race on
November 17th in Fort Vancouver, Washing,
ton either by being one of the top two teams
in their conference or by being voted into the
competition based on their national ranking

The Illinois Tech men’s cross coun
try team has worked hard through a lot of
setbacks this season and are picking up speed
At the beginning of the season, several of the
men’s top runners were sidelined due to in,
jury, but they are back in and running strong
The men are currently ranked 8th in the con
ference, but with the last two races in the
season they hope to move up in the ratings
Both teams will be racing at UWeOshkosh on
October 12th and at the NAIA Great Lakes
Challenge in Grand Rapids on October 20th

Premier League Review:
Arsenal, Ham separated by 1 point

By Nathan McMahon
TECHNEWS WRITER

The Premier League had its seve
enth week of matches two weekends ago
Manchester City had a dominant 30 win
over Sunderland to remain in the top three
of the table Goals came from Aleksandar
Kolarov, Sergio Aguero, and James Mile
neri City now sits tied with United with
15 points, while Sunderland drops the
points and stays at seven on the season
Norwich City jumped out to a quick 10
lead over Chelsea with a goal from Grant
Holt, but Fernando Torres responded three
minutes later From there it was all Chele
sea as they saw goals from Frank Lame
pard, Eden Hazard, and Branislav Ivanovic
for a 471 Win Chelsea remains the point
leader with 19 points, while Norwich is
still in the bottom three with three points
Reading looked to be on the road to its first
premier league win with a 20 lead over
Swansea City at halftime However, Swansea
got two late goals for a 272 draw to salvage a
point Reading got goals from Noel Hunt and
Pavel Pogrebnyak Swansea City got its goals
from Michu and Wayne Routledger Swansea
now is in the middle of the table with eight
points while Reading gains a point but is
still in the bottom three with three points
West Bromwich Albion got a big three
points in a 32 Victory over Queens Park
Rangers West Brom got its goals from
James Morrison, Zoltan Gera, and Youse
suf Mulumbu while QPR saw goals from
Adel Taarabt and Esteban Graneroi West
Brom continues a strong performance in
this campaign with 14 points just outside

the top three, but QPR continues to struggle
at the bottom of the table with two points
Wigan Athletic and Everton drew at 272 af
ter a late Everton penalty secured the points
Wigan got goals from Arouna Kone and
Franco Di Santo and Everton got goals from
Nikica Jelavic and Leighton Bainesr Everton
has 14 points now on the season while Wigan
has 5 points after the draw, which may end
up being a big point in the relegation racer
West Ham United jumped out to a 10 lead
over Arsenal Arsenal scored three unane
swered goals to win 3711 West Ham’s goals
came from Mohamed Diame and Arsenal got
goals from Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott, and
Santi Carzola The two sides are separated by
just one point with Arsenal having 12 so far
and West Ham with 11 points on the season
Southampton pulled itself out of the bottom
three with a 272 draw with Fulhamr Jose Fone
te had two goals for Southampton while Jos
Hooiveld and Kieran Richardson scored for
Fulhamr Southampton now has four points
on the year while Fulham has 10 points so far
Liverpool and Stoke ended in a 070 draw with
many Liverpool shots coming agonizingly
ofi’ the posts Liverpool has six points now
while Stoke sits above them with eight points
Tottenham Hotspurs defeated Aston Villa in
a 20 win with goals from Steven Caulker and
Aaron Lennon. The Spurs now are playing
with high quality and have 12 points while
Aston Villa continues its struggles with just a
few points Manchester United kept pace with
the other top teams in a 30 result over New,
castlei Goals came from Johnny Evans, Pa,
trice Evra, and Tom Cleverly Newcastle now
has nine points while United has 15 points
No Premier League soccer was played
over the weekend due to the international
break for World Cup qualification matchesi

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