The UW-Parkside women's cross country team is becoming a fixture at the NCAA Division II National Championships.

Led by two top-four finishers, the Rangers scored 130 points to finish third at the Division II Great Lakes Regional at Edwardsville, Ill., and qualify for nationals for the third straight year.

Junior Jessica Lamp was second in the 6,000-meter race in 21:32.24 and senior Naomi Fulton was fourth in 21:39.65 to lead the way for Parkside, which finished eighth at nationals last year and ninth in 2005. Lamp and Fulton, along with senior Valerie Hubbard, who finished 14th in 22:14.74, earned All-Region honors.

"Overall, we ran a good, solid race," Rangers coach Mike DeWitt said. "It was nothing spectacular and nothing more than we needed."

Kenosha Bradford graduate Hope Christie, a freshman, was 48th in 23:20.85 and Union Grove graduate Courtney Zimmerman, also a freshman, was 64th in 23:41.87 to round out Parkside's scoring.

Grand Valley State had its top five runners finish sixth through 10th and won the team title with 40 points. Wayne State, led by race winner Rachelle Malette, was second with 117 and Southern Indiana was fourth with 151.

The Parkside men's team finished 19th in the meet with 503 points.

Brothers Chris and Ben Orvold finished 83rd and 84th, respectively, in the 10,000-meter race to lead the Rangers, Chris, a senior, finished in 34:09 and Ben, a freshman, finished in 34:14.

Grand Valley State scored 20 to win the meet.

Women's volleyball

CARTHAGE: The Lady Reds had little trouble winning the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Tournament, sweeping Augustana 30-25, 30-20, 30-18 to earn the CCIW's automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Carthage (31-4), ranked sixth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association/CSTV NCAA Division III poll and first in the Midwest Region, trailed early in the second game before coming back and jumped out to a 17-8 lead in the third game.

Ashley Kuehl and Rachel Swoboda led the way for the Lady Red. Kuehl had 12 kills and a .375 hitting percentage and Swoboda had 11 kills and hit .455. Carthage hit .349 as a team and had just nine hitting errors. Kelly Bauer had 27 assists and Katie Lundgren had 19 digs.

Bauer was named the tournament MVP and teammates Swoboda and Jori Simmons were named to the All-Tournament team.

The Lady Reds won't have to travel far for the Midwest Region Championship Tournament. They're hosting the event Thursday through Saturday.

UW-PARKSIDE: The Rangers closed out the Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season on a high note, sweeping Bellarmine in a GLVC match in the DeSimone Gymnasium at Parkside.

Horlick High School graduate Jennifer Johnson led the offense for the Rangers with 14 kills, three solo blocks, two block assists and a .345 hitting percentage. Jacqui Brandenburg and Kristin Schmidt had 10 kills each, Katie Krohn had 43 assists and Jackie Nehls had 20 digs.

Swimming

CARTHAGE: The men's and women's teams swept a double dual meet at Carthage.

The Red Men beat Illinois Institute of Technology 163-99 and Lewis 106-98 and the Lady Reds beat Illinois Tech 166-24 and Lewis 106-98.

The men were led by Stephen Schrank, who won the 200-meter breaststroke (2:09.15) and 400 individual medley (4:10.30).

The women were led by Lisa Tiltges, who won the 500 freestyle (5:27.66) and 1,000 freestyle (11:05.46).