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Show I I BEN LOMOND BEACON. Feb. 22. 1979, Page 4 TONY CRUZ BRAD HOWELL . . . finished second . . . BRUCE claimed fourth . . . FINCH took fifth Weber High completes succesful back wrestling campaigns -t-o-back By Keith Duncan The dust has settled and another wrestling season is history, only to be opened by the pages of a yearbook or the flicks of a camera. As Coach Joe James put it, It will take these wrestlers a long time to forget this wrestling season. His comments came just moments after tournament in the final match of Salt Lake City last Saturday evening. Weber High enjoyed another succesk s-filled season which came with a second place finish in the state tournament last season. This year the Warrior grapplers fell a couple of notches, and finished fourth in the prestigious tournament at the Warrior athletic squads. Coach Richard Hoopes and Marlene Summers couldnt be more pleased. Tony finished second in the Region One meet. His determination to do well at state was voiced the day after the region meet when he said, Theres going to be some fire burning when I get to state. I just hope that I can meet (Lance) Oleson Oleson beat Tony in the again. championship of the Region One meet 4-- 105 pound back-to-bac- Special Events Center on the University of Utah campus. Even Mark Storey and Brad Howell, who both suffered painful defeats in their championship rounds, wont forget the success and the failures of the 1978-7- 9 season. Storey, Howell, Bruce Finch and Tony Cruz were the only four Weber grapplers to place in the tournament. Tony, who supplied Weber with ample strength at the 105 spot, was a this season. Tony and his move-i- n sister, Gina, transferred from a school in California to participate on .1 category. Cruz never did meet Oleson even if he had of got past his third opponent in the state meet. Oleson who is just a junior, was ousted from the tournament the second day for not making weight. Joe Trujillo of Granger hadnt lost a match all season long and Tony was his 27th victim. However Tony gave the Lancer wrestler his best match of the tournament, Tony lost Bruce Finchs tournament story was just as expected after his first two matches, but Bruce was shoved off the victory path in his third match. The officials judgment that Finch was stalling was agony in itsel for Bruce, his family and his fans. That single point was enough to knock him out of contention for the championship. but Finch won his next match ended up finishing fifth in the state meet. He was a third place finisher last season. Finch will now compete with other wrestlers in the freestyle competition which gets underway in the near, future. Webers biggest surprise in the 1979 state meet was the efforts of Brad Howell. Howell, who didnt even put on a wrestling uniform last season, took the Region One championship in his weight. Howell won three consecutive and highly exciteable matches before the Saturday night championships. And who would he face, none other than John Luddington. Of Howells four defeats prior to that time, two of them had come from the Bountiful wrestler. This time they are before some 6,000 fans and they were facing each other for the state championship. Luddington got an early take down and took a lead which he never lost. John ended up winning the grueling For Howell, it was a match, season he could be highly proud of and his respect for Luddington was top rated. Two grapplers embrassed each other after the match, sweat gleam ing from their tired bodies. 13-- 9-- Mark Storey never estimates anyone, thats why he was carrying a record into the final match of his wrestling season. For two and a half periods the Weber grappler held on and looked like Webers only tough hold in action token during his championship match with John Luddington of Bountiful. Brad finished second in the state meet. BRAD HOWELL is in -- 27-- 0 champion. Then with just seconds left in the final period between him and Bryan VanValkenburg of Brighton, Storey was taken down by VanValkenburg. The two points gave the Bengal wrestler a 3 lead and just 5 seconds to hold on to it. So mighty Marks undefeated record was now blemished. Storey took the defeat hard and standing in second place on the victors stand was just as much agony as anything else. 4-- But needless to say. Storeys heroics during the 1979 season were some that will be hard to match at his weight in future years at the school. He indeed proved to be one of the most outstanding wrestlers the school has ever produced. Webers other five grapplers, DeVon Robinson, Rick Tanner, Scott Cottrell, Brad Story, and Danny Eastman did well but failed to give their teams any points. For Danny, Rick and Brad, their trip to state will probably not be their final one. COACH RICHARD HOOPES gives Howell important instructions he takes on John Luddington in championship. Chantile never met an obstacle that f before I t, A, Chantile Simmons-Renstronever met an obstacle she couldnt lick. The taffy-haire- d thrives Ogden on challenges. Thats why everyone who knows her is betting she clears and toughest hurdle in the latest her life. Chantile (Channy for short) is a natural athlete who loves all spoils and has excelled in most since on childhood. She was a spark-plu- g North Ogden Jr. High Schools championship volleyball team last year, and tied the school record on the obstacle course, a rigorous track event for girls. Besides which she is a strong tennis player and swimmer. But she quickly dispels your image of a girl jock. Chantile is a an better. I'm sure her natural competitiveness helped to pull her through. She just doenst know how to subjects, A few days after her close call, Chantile entered and won the obstacle race. With said.' ' a medihaler handy, receiving books and assignments from Weber,' and any help she needs from teachers in the hospital classroom. She also continues to take part in sports including volleyball, tennis and swimming, in a supervised athletic program at NJH. They teach you here about asthma and how to handle it, so its not so scary, Chantile said. "You feel that you are in control, and not your asthma. I found out a lot of really great some champions swimmers have had asthma. I dont feel that asthma will keep me from being anything I really want to be. You have a definite feeling that asthma certainly isnt going to hold back Chantile Simmons-Renstro- quit. pretty girl, and her scholastic achievements balance the She maintained an athletic skill. almost straight 'A average ("I got one B') during her last year at North Ogden, and is currently high in standings at Weber High School where she is enrolled as an absentee student. What makes all this doubly impressive is that Chantile has an almost unbeatable excuse to underachieve both as a student and an athlete. She has chronic, severe asthma asthma that began when she was nine and became progressively worse until it threatened not only her athletic career but her life. Chantile is the oldest of six children in the family of Utah Senator and Mrs. Darrell G. Renstrom of Ogden, and the only one with asthma. I guess I just got lucky," Chantile grins. She recals I guess 1 just got lucky, Chantile grins. She recalls the first attacks were mild and came mostly in spring and fall. Gradually, however, they became more frequent and severe until "I was wheezing most of the symptoms without adverse side effects. In the meantime Chantile is continuing 10th grade studies in German, algebra, music and other hope and pray. Then she began to get m she and heart But a medihaler cant always hold asthma at bay, and Dr. David P. Burkley her physician referred Chantile to National Jewish Hospital and Research Center at Denver last July. Object of the admission to the famed nonsectarian respiratory disease center was to fine tune her medication and taper steroid doses to an effective minimum. Physicians at NJH are hopeful Chantile can return home in two or three weeks, on an optimum treatment program that will control the i'ft. VVP& Weekends, Chantile spends off the hospital campus with family friends, attending Mormon services and touring in the nearby mountains. Chantile and her family are devout Mormons and members of North Ogden, 10th Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints., i Senator Renstrom, visiting Chantile at NJH recently, noted that her physician is Catholic. "Here is a Catholic physician and a Jewish hospital, doing everything possible to help a Mormon girl, he observed. There couldnt be a better example of real brotherhood in action. COACH JOE JAMES gives instructions before Storey and Howeii the mat. take time." Sagebrush, dust, grass, some foods, animal dander, weather changes, colds and respiratory infections all seemed to trigger her asthma. Worst of all for the energetic girl, physical exertion also started her wheezing. Treatment she received helped but didn't completely control the symptoms, and some of the medication had undesirable notably steroids side effects. Chantile's asthma reached its peak in 1977. She was in the hospital five times that year, for a total of 48 days. On at least one occasion her life hung In precarious balance. "Weve never told Channy how frightened we all were that time, said Mrs. Renstrom. "We felt so helpless. Hie doctors had done Just about everything they could, and ttwre was nothing we could do except was the favorite to take the title in his weight, but had to settle for fifth place wrestling meet. BRUCE FINCH in the state Program initiat A wildlife biologist with the Division of Wildlife Resources has Initiated a program which he hopoa will kfeotify the whereabouts of some of Utahs rarest mahunals. The Rare Animal THE WEBER HIGH Wariorettet marched for I he last time at home last Report ESort (RARS) will um the knowledge Interested hunters, basketball game'. week In the halftime of The fishermen, backpackers and other outdoor rocroatkmists who may see Weber-Skyvie- w these animals on trips into Utah's backcountry. Bob Hasenyager, a biologist with the Division's Nongame Section, hopes to gather information on seven the wolverine, lynx, mammals otter, black-foote- d Mexican baL big-eare- d ferret, wolf, bat and spotted Not until the Division has a better idea of the distribution of the animals can management plans be considered, Hasenyager explained. Hasenyager has assembled a pamphlet explaining how the public can become involved in the program. |