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Show THE SIGNPOST Monday, October 30, 1989 12 Golfers ready for final tourney By Mac Madsen Contributing Writer Since mid-September, Weber State varsity golfers have been engaged in standard autumn warfare with top college teams from around the country. It has been a challenge for the young Wildcats who replaced three seniors and a player called on a mission from a roster of seven. Only seniors Jeff Showalter and Ed Baker return from the '88-'89 squad. Most of the slack has been picked up by three new freshman: Pablo del Olmo, Russell McKay, and Matt.Masluk. Del Olmo comes to Weber State from Mexico City, where at summer's end, he was ranked as the number one amateur in the country. McKay, from Bryanston, South Africa, brings good credentials from extensive play on the amateur circuit there. Matt Masluk is a top southern Nevada junior who was an AJGA winner and played well in the Tournament of Champions event held in late summer. Other golfers looking to make a contribution to the team include freshman Teb Yu from WAN Sports editor position open for winter and spring quarters. Should start training immediately. Applications available at The Signpost. Contact Brett Hart at 626-7121 Johannesburg; Brandon Hoffield, sophomore transfer from SUSC; and returned missionary Chet Davids from Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. The team opened the season at the prestigious Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 13-15. They placed 13th out of a field of 18 teams, which included such nationally ranked teams as Arizona (6th), Fresno State (11th), UNLV(14th), USC (18th), South Carolina (22nd), Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, Texas A & M, New Mexico, and BYU. The 'Cats split with District 7 contenders, losing to New Mexico, BYU and Nevada Reno, but beating Utah and Air Force. Showalter finished 9th in the field of 218 golfers. The University of Colorado Fox Acres Invitational was the next tournament. WSC held second place behind host Colorado until a scorecard disqualification ultimately pushed the Wildcats into a 6th place finish. McKay played the tournament well and finished in 5th place with a three-round score of two-over-par 218. Event number three was the UOP Invitational in Stockton, California. The Wildcats shot LnJ IB one-over-par 285 the second round and were in 6th place behind Fresno, UNLV, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada-Reno, only two strokes out of 4th place. Then another disqualification disaster in mid-round of the final day cost the 'Cats a leading player with a top score. When the dust cleared, the team ended up in 12th place. In spite of the unusual problems that have plagued the 'Cats in early tournaments, the latest poll put Weber State in 5th place in District 7 behind UTEP, New Mexico, Nevada-Reno, and BYU. Other district rankings are Hawaii, 6th; Wyoming, 7th; Boise State, 8th; Utah, and San Diego State, 9th; and Air Force, 11th. Number one UTEP is ranked 11th nationally. The Wildcats' next competition will be November 12-14 at the historic Olympic Club in San Francisco, where they will wrap up the fall season against BYU, Washington, Hawaii, and eight other top western teams. Li Tuition Waiver and stipend available depending upon qualifications of applicant. SPORTS Women's Cross Country Coach Jim Blaisdell's ladies di dn't do as well as he had expected Friday at the Wildcat Invitational. Ironically so, the ladies actually took third place out of the three teams (BYU, Boise State and WSC) here at home. This is the first time this season the women's cross country team has not taken first place in a meet. BYU walked away in first place, as was expected, with a score of 22. Boise State, who had lost to Weber last week at the Boise State Invitational, returned the favor by beating the Weber by six points finishing with 48 points. Blaisdell and his team are nevertheless optimistic that they'll come back strong in the District seven conference meet coming up on Nov. 7. Men's Cross Country The men's cross country teamed did exceptionally well against Boise State and Nevada-Reno on Saturday at the Boise State Invitational. Weber took the meet with a very impressive score of 24 points. A score that was less then half of either of the other opposing FOOTBALL (Continued from page 10) and then someone. ..someone somewhere has got to come up with the big play for us. We're just lacking that right now." The big play came from the Montana State defense. After MSU scored the game-winning TD, Weber State put together a pretty impressive drive. Kickoff return man Austin Peters returned the kickoff to near mid-field. WSC then drove all the way to the Bobcat 11-yard line. But on two consecutive plays, Schmidt was sacked and the game was put out of reach. The Wildcats fall, to 0-6 in Big Sky action and 1-7 overall, while Montana State improved its record to 2-4 in conference play and 4-5 overall. Weber State plays its homecoming game against Eastern Washington this Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in Wildcat Stadium. Last week's winner of the Wildcat PICKS Nathan Dalebout was last week's winner of the PICKS. He was 12-2 in his NFL choices and 7-8 in collegiate frames. BRIEFS teams. Coach Chick Hi si op was very pleased with the grouping that his team finished with, as they took 2-4-5-6-7 and 8th place. Weber's Bob Durtschi (25:19) placed second in between Boise State's Robin Card (25:13) and Dan Crane (25:25) who took first and third respectively. The next five places were swept entirely by the Wildcats: Todd Davis (25:26), Brad Barton (25:27), Bret Williams (25:28), Duane West (25:33), and John Purin (25:42). Soccer A superb defensive performance on behalf of Weber State's soccer club allowed them -to walk away with the victory over previously undefeated BYU Friday. Goalie Colby Tanner had eight saves to help shutout the j cougars and help improve the team record to 16-7-2. In spite of the 21 shots on goal by BYU, six more than Weber for the game, it was Weber's Sia Dooklani who scored the winning (and only) goal off a feed from Tim Crompton in the second half to take the game 1-0. NETTERS (continued from page 10) 25 digs. Jacobs contributed with six kills and eight blocks. Against New Mexico, Molli Wilkins, who was playing for the first time since she sustained an ankle injury against Utah State on Monday, recorded 13 kills and 14 digs to lead Weber State. Jacobs and Heissinger added six blocks each. New Mexico defeated Weber in four games, 15-5, 14-16, 15-2, 15-10. WSC's Jana Jacobs was named to the all-tournament team. The Lady Wildcats are now 10-19 overall and 4-8 in Big Sky play. Weber State returns to Big Sky Conference action on Thursday when they travel to Reno, Nevada to take on the last-place Wolf Pack. On Saturday, the Wildcats will play Northern Arizona in' Flagstaff, Arizona. |