Show iipoa £ The Utah Statesman USU shows no titles in VQ-'- In retrospect Utah State’s 1980-8- 1 season its third in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association might have been its most disappointing For the first season of its membership the Aggies had not titles to show for its efforts In football a late game fumble at Long Beach helped dethrone the Aggies as PCAA champions They had shared the crown in 1978 and won it outright in 1979 before the tough loss to the 49 ers Rod Tueller’s basketball crew took a tumble into the PCAA second division while attempting to repeat as regular season champions It coincided with the first non-poseason appearance in four years The wrestlers and cindermen sent repren-titive- s to national tournaments but failed to win the league meets An account of each of the major sports follows FOOT HA 3 finlT Monday June 1 lf21 r Dl t Utah State will lead off the 1S31 — with University of Utah Cal Scate-Ft£jWeber State the University of Houston and Brigham Young The highlight of the year could be a ble appearance by the Ags in the first nia Bowl which' features the winner of f t PCAA and the ra ' pd- Mid-Americ- an fP’l? In the past Aggie men’s hadatbaSI seaasa the word “inconsistent” was as prevalent id hoop vernacular a “slam dunk” or “awesome” In lockerroosna in stores in " classes and about cvrywhere dsc in when people mentioned Aggie hwtotd used the word “inconsistent” to deserts play of Rod Tudler'a suad The Aggies started the season very wO with wins over St Martins and Writer With the departure of Eric Hippie and and played good basketball in losses agrinat ' Craig Bradshaw to the professional football BYU and the University of Utah They ranks USU football coach Bruce Snyder had traveled to Providence RI and won £ an obvious problem: Who to play at quarterBank Classic over Michigan State and back? He found Bob Gagliano playing at Washington Then the inconsistency set L US International a school that had just like a bad cold dropped its football program They lost to a mediocre Idaho corns' Gagliano stepped in to fill the void and did and lost to Portland State and Pressa C' an admirable job for the Aggies leading them They continued losing At times at Ini O'’ to a respectable 5 year and second place in the PCAA despite taking beating after beating if USU would break out of the then they would slip back and bee twrd cr '' each week Passing was the Aggie forte this ' three conference games in a row year in contrast to past years The Aggies finished the regular srriT “i Gagliano completed 184 passes out of 345 5 a regular season and entered attempt for a completion rate of 53 percent He threw 20 touchdown passes and was In5' " tournament m fifth flaw TSgyagr" v match up against Irvin and Su tercepted 15 times His two main targets were IrvirJS LlJ f scorer Kevin Mag leading Ken and Thompson Murphy James Murphy beaten the Aggies two previous ttcxj id Cs finished as the number two receiver in the J v regular season country catching 66 passes for 9 yards and in a surprise strategy Tueller 51 for made 10 touchdowns Thompson grabs used a diamond and two defense wi3i !- -" t 802 yards and 8 touchdowns and Edgar WickfiSc traRg cT Austefjord The start of the season was not exactly the against Magee who was held to 14 paints ts most picturesque in Aggie history Utah State the Ags won 93-9- 0 lost four of its first six games and fans were However the Aggies lost the next ts beginning to wonder how far the Ags would 7 State Fresno to end the Bradshaw and the from days Hippie slip ' USU a 6 record J The Aggies started the season at the the was A of the fisy (I highlight year lost a where of they Kentucky University Utah State’s Brian Jackson Jackson arenr J close one 14-- 7 They returned home to beat a 23 1 points per game over all games and ZZJJ uniman rebuilding Idaho State squad by points in PCAA play He alto pulled djwcs traveled to the pressive 14-- 7 score They then average of nine rebounds a game and wes University of Texas where they gave the named to the team came Texas handle could Longhorns all they second as the Cornell Green highest aumr out on top 7 after receiving quite a scare basketball State in Utah scorer history for The Texas front four made for a hard day carried be had to Gagliano and he almost home in a bag The Ags then faced the University of Utah Utah State’s tennis team finkbei Ct tz at home and lost 23-1- 9 on a last minute drive season with its first wtsusizg rt:Z ‘ regular remembered will be This Utes the game but could only manage a si— by years (14-1in USU football lore for the infamous jersey in the PCAA chaiepioesirys place spraying incident by the Aggies Perhaps the most pleasant mattpfcx Lr e Cal Utah State then defeated conference-foCoach Garrett MacFariane t&a snatrr1 State Fullerton 28-1- 7 in its first conference the play of Clark Barton Logan battle of the year The Ags returned to ti Utah Barton started the-ateit t ) " lost 70-4- 6 and BYU of ' the face Cougars to number two singies gnt but asea C tackle This is the game that BYU defensive one number throrY Cs ( spot midway Berleffi three Junior Filiaga hit referee John and finished the regular aeasra a in thrown flag times after Berleffi had record j Dave EdaMn wfeo — ‘ "— ‘ ' ' Filiaga’s direction ’ tne next The Aggie defense came alive in for the Agglaa msi t the 20 points three games giving up only two &r Weber T reccri An beat Fresno State Pacific Tcil to Long Beach far State They then traveled Car PCAA cfaampfoosp what amounted to the st Lta try ts t to 6-- ' tJt -- ta 1X4 11-1- " Wdtaf NCAA roWJ Champion Jay Don Blake of Utah State the NCAA golf day six stroke lead in the final round of loaiMaKnt Saturday Blake shot a 76 on the Blake ties for at national second place golf tourney STAMFORD Calif (AP)-R- on Commani of Southern California tame from six strokes behind to pass defending ®mpion Jay Don Blake of Utah State and win the crown while Brigham Young won its first team title “nfoy at the 84th NCAA Golf Championships Comrnans a senior from Westlake Village Calif teed early in the final round because the USC Trojans were not tor in the team race He shot b9 for a a al 5-- 8 Me total of 283 ®ake i waj comfortably ahead when Commans finished ke Southern Cal golfer said “I know you can't y Don to let up” sub-pa- r Blake who had three rounds before Saturday bal- - He had three bogeys and a double bogey on the ’ trugghng to a 76 and a tournament total of 284 ( i‘ng y always tell you it’s nice to be in the clubhouse first g for me” Commans said ‘‘I’d 1 10 happen to anyone but Jay Don bY Blake was his first round over par in NCAA jwponship play He won the title last year at Ohio State ng Hal Sutton of Centenary in a playoff Luctbkc of Fresno State tied Blake for second by a d 69 tinman had three birdies and only one bogey Saturday °gan the round tied for third six strokes behind Blake Mex- “ehind second-plac- e Tommy Armour of New de-Ja- nerve-wrackin- Tr”" Tr final-roun- ii YU Cougars NCAA runners-u- p twice including last 70 from Keith Clearwater as they tO1 Roberts for the team championship vi ®nets four-da- y total was 1161 strokes Oral Roberts Ml It champion Houston was third at 13th with a 1186 stroke total tYlIiZl SUC one stroke ahead of Oral Roberts and day early in the final round before regaining the H ar ? 13-ti- " te nonet senoaiwirt 71-5- 12-1- p lit 35-1- CE v 3) ' ' aJzsiarCst J rr r tzrf JS 8 Antics blew a fourtSi LongBeadt 23-2- 7 w TUy Wad t ( O f? 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