Area sports digest 9/23/02

Southeast basketball player has surgery

Reggie Golson, 6-foot-7 forward on Southeast Missouri State University's men's basketball team, had arthroscopic knee surgery Friday.

Golson, a transfer from Hutchinson Community College, where he averaged 11 points and seven rebounds per game last season, is expected to be out of action for six to eight weeks.

Southeast coach Gary Garner said Golson suffered a dislocated knee in a pickup game in his hometown of Kansas City, Kan., over the summer. Garner said the surgery was primarily to clean up scar tissue and Golson should be fine for the start of the season, but he will miss most if not all of preseason practice.

Southeast runners at Vanderbilt meet

Southeast's cross country teams competed in the Commodore Classic in Nashville, Tenn, Saturday. The women placed third in the 5000 meter run with 84 points, just ahead of Louisville University.

Kris Woolf finished 13th overall out of 142 women, with 19:30.09. She was just about 13 seconds from cracking the top 10. Jen Burke finished 16th (19:35.33.) and Kaci Pilcher was 19th (19:50.30).

Southeast's men did not place in the team scores but Jared Tanz finished 16th out of 148 runners in 27:51.44. Brian Whitehead was 30th (28:18.18).

Vanderbilt won the women's division and Belmont captured the men's title.

-- From staff reports