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Show Cougars Win Track; Split in Baseball Jim Blaisdell Ken Crosby Hurls Sets Stadium ~agiee’ one 1 tran ary Brigham senior trackman from Malad, ken leg. As a freshman at BYU Idaho, :.ok wings on nis last Francis broke his leg and then a new stadium record with a to sch! last fall and re-broke leap of 25-11% while Brigham his leg, but has rapidly round- baton on one exchange which cost them the 440 relay race and Abilene Christian College mis - nandled one exchange perfectiy on his record break- before ACC won the event. ing effort. The record was pre-BYU got a strong perfor- winner Gary Ard of Kansas and the poe vault as he cleared Pertti Pousi of BYU with marks 15 to take an unexpected first second dual meet track contest against Abilene Christian without much difficulty. (Track pictures by Grant Roylance) the four laps. It was the fastest gars. time ever recorded by a BYU Sm sie tuis*ba" In of 174-8. ACC’s Wayne Walton was four feet short of a first in that event, | | Dick Legasgotoff a fine toss rally. Larry Rumney,in a pinel TOTALS In accepting the position yard dash in a close race. Earnestsaid, “El Camino High The results: 440 relay — Abilene Chris- Biggest Net schools in Northern California tan (Stratton, Overly, Colgla- and they have a keen interest zier, Medlock) 41.2; BYU 41.2. in basketball. They have boost-| Shot put — Larry Adams, er clubs and go all out to pro-| BYU, 49-9; Wayne Walton, ACC, moie basketball.” |47-4%4; David Parsons, ACC, 45“T hope this might be a|%. Purse is Planned Francis, college coaching position. The BYU, 4:103; John Lopez, ACC,| three previous coaches at El/4:12.0; Stan Bergeson, BYU, Thornock, 3b good college jobs,” he said. | High jump — Chris Celion,| Gary is a former BYUall/pyu, ¢-10; Dan Mendenhall,| conference guard and has had/pyy ¢.g: Mike Johnson, BYU a commendable record asfresh-|gg ° ” . man basketball coach. He is) y; i | Invitational May 15, 16 and M,) << a settle for next’ wickBerge, Thornock fo nothing. : 5 | In _ closest approach to ria Kerstien, Knosp, |winner-take-all philosophy, the beatin _ “ 7 .0; Tie Curt Noel, BYU, and He is married to the former Mike Weiland, ACC. 144 Blaiaa a SAM FKANCid concuudes a brilliant mile run in the time of Berge KEN CROSBY, BYU's strong fastballing pitcher, receives |jeight pros—four from the Triples: : None 4:10.3, the fastest time ever turned in by a Cougar in the | congratulations on his shutout performance against the Rams, |National Tennis League and)" P<S:runs: None Home BYU Stadium. Francis is just a sophomore, Crosby struck out 12 batters in the first five innings, four from World Championship Tennis—have agreed to accept Left on bases:(8) CSU BYU(8) minumun, of $1,000 each, wit . 9, Little League =v @ a ary Thacker, BYU, 9.8. — Dick Legas, BYU, Juhani Nummela, BYU, 241.0; Baseball Signup a s: Max Harding, ACC, 204 All boys interested in playing Dennis Ralston from the WCT— Torg will compete in two sections of Romney four olayers each, each section Howard to have two players from each Knosp $80 yard run — Steve Berge- Little League Baseball with the son, BYU, 1 5 Orem-Scera Park Recreation son, BYU, 1 who are 10 years old should|ford, ACC, 1; sign up with their school or con-| 440 hurdles Stan BergeRon Craw- league. The two players winning Folster in the respective divisions will Tikker meet for the title—and the Beree $15,000. The defeated finalist! Zinniger Jim Maw, tact their area representative| BYU, 53.6; Dick Legas, BYU, will get just about the same TOTALS so they can be assigned to a/54.5; Corry Neville, BYU, 55.3. team. z | Discus Mike Hoffman, ‘The area representatives are/BYU, 174-8; Wayne Walton, amount of money as all other Ken Olson, 225-1873, for the) ACC, 170-5; David Parsons, defeated contestants. Competition calls for 225-7019, for the northwest area; Pole vault — Mike Johnson, and Friday, to be decided by a Finkbeiner Southeast area; and Bill Ander- acc, a regulation best two-of-three southwest area; Bill singles Lucas) Acc, 164-8, Bob Foutin, 2250980, for the/pyy, 15-6; 15.0; son, 225-3697, for the northeast ByU area, George Bingham, 225-7051, 14.9, iple J James Blaylock, 4 Sets. m7 will be the Little League Super-| py’ sy 1 Cory Nevitl, on, Pair Tied For visor this year. i A 3 44-10! Leagueplaywill start on June 44-9, ; John Robinson, BYU, tnd. Practice days have been 2 ie Azalea Lead set up for northeast area on| ace, gs seShae Mondays, BYU, " 22.0.i esdays, northwest southeast area area n'219;' on) TwoGary mileThacker, Keni Wednesdays, southwest area on) 409.99 4. 1 nny Link, Thursdays, with Fridays and) ACC, 9:90.4; Dan Babel, BYU, Salnrtan ea 9:38.6; Pat Saane, BYU, 9:48,4. csu six K wt Thursday Bell proset. The final match will be Hole Dennis Sledge, ae matches on V . Uchida Rose | Johnson TOTALS Score byinnings CSU |BYU pibsen we co onwt 48.5. | 100 yard dash — Bill Overly, cc, i, Robert Mediock, ACC: siebee eee it BYU, 47.3; Gary Tipton, BYU, Orem Calls For man wow Ree their standings in the round-|Hansen (L) 627 6 8 6 robin competition and with Crosby (W) 728 . 6 $1,000 set aside for a lone 000000 doubles match. csu 200004 The players — Rod Laver, BYU Panch Gonzalez, Andres Gime——_ no and Roy Emerson from the Friday's Game: NTL and Tony Roche, Ray| BYU A Moore, Mart; Riesen and Fairbanks 440 yard dash — Roger Col- softball glazier, ACC, 47.1; Ralph Mann, = finest eesescoo nn state's Prescot oree Ee the (11), the left-overs from the $25,000 Ficiing Sennary purse distributed according to Pitcher IP AB R H ER BB SO and will playsoftball this sum- sas and Pertti Pousi of BYU.) mer for Hoover's. Heis one of| pitchers. 7 when eight professionals will Errors: Kerstein, Holek, South- highly regarded for his basket-| ,4/8"furdies— Tom Bonin, ball knowledge and ability. 4 0: Ti as) , : mer, He will be teaching the cord broke the old mark of first session of summer school 25-9 held by Gary Ard of Kan- Jorg, 3b NEW YORK (UPI)—The big: |Crosby, p Ft LG gest single purse in American) 7yrars 7 6 8 4 tennis history will be offered in)a . Rnd for Bell in the 7th | |the Madison Square Garden p.Grounded out for Hansen in 19.0, stay in the valley for the sum- BYU, 24-10. (New stadium re- Rose, 3b The Cougars came backin the Hansen, p bottcm of the eighth with sate |220 yard dash and wonthe 100 Tha BYU catcher Bob Holec the decisive) Uchida, It {blow during the inning. ing job at El Camino High Was the only double winner of School in Sacramento, Calif. it the day. He ran away with the ™!<¢ Wevand, | |in the eighth inning in the first|Southwick, ab 3 |game with a home run by|Villano, 1b order to take the head coach-| Bill Overly, ACC’s sprinter, Ruth Robinson and they have) ES | games. Finkbeiner, ef 3 4 | CSU exploded for three runs: Holek, ¢ jin the javelin to win the event BYU freshman basbetball) With a mark of 241 feet, just Earnest has re- two fest better than BYU's signed his position at BYU in Juhani Nummela. | three children, Edward Kent 5,| BYU, Long 24-11%; jump — Jim Blaisdell,| Steven Kyle 4, and Amy 1. Pertti Pousi,| Earnest indicated that he will BYU, 2%5-7%; Kari Palmen, ps. a Berge, Wo started off the sea-|Colorado State University (0) AB R HRBI son very strong and then fell| Player into a mild slump, collected|Kerstien, ss 3 .. 2 ., Son Sateen three doubles in the three Bell, rf coach Gary Sam __|Dulfaun, 1 el cae acthnee. ton by four inches, The close discuss contest that — 2 2 1 afternoon game |DuNunn | Hitting stars for the Cougars McKay 1 during the three game series| were Richard Fairbanks with CSU YU 00010001028 six hits, and Doug Howard andl Lee Berge with five hits each. | Saturday's Second Game: toss edged ACC’s Wayne Wal- Mile run ; i - season won-lost record to 7-0 Yarber (W) 9 hes a victory in the Friday|!eyring (L) 7 where Larry Adams chalked up| stepping stone to a good junior) blazed Folster, 3b Richard Zinniger, strong ee left handed hurler, moved his uniform with a toss of 49-9. The = Camino have each stepped inw 4: Crosby linings, 5-2. |hhis first blue ribbon in a BYU| School is one of the finest high) game. Brad Meyring, who seemsto|S!len bases: Kerstien, Berge bea vim of « lack of offens-/Doubles: Bell, Tikker Another surprise first for the} runner in the BYU Stadium. Cougars camein the shot put| It was a remarkable achieve- was announced Saturday. =6€9~CS live support, pitched a strong) TTiples: None game for the Cougars in the Home Tuns: Holec lopener, but lost it in the late Left on bases: CSU (8), markable effort in the mile run Stan Bergeson for a one-two as he clocked a 4:10.3 time for finish in the event for the Cou- Job i 65 | He got in trouble in the final’ yoKay ay t \inning, with two walks and an a-Romney 1 = 1 error to load the sacks, but he TOTALS «85s |pitched out of trouble to pre[Brtrs:Southwick, Berge (2) serve his shutout. Sam Francis, just a soph-|clock a 1:53.1 and was followmore at BYU, turned in a re-'ed close behind by his brother Prep 3% Colo- away especially strong in the Tikker’ ¢ early innings as he struck out Berge, ss 12 Ramsin the first five inn- Meyring p |ings. was In addition to the long jump)47.3, his best time in that sweep the Cougars also swept! event. the high jump, the 440 hurdles,| steve Bergeson came on very| and the triple jump. strong in the 880 yard run to| Earnest Accepts TOTALS 2 2 1 i weesoooooonm time 3041 4 1 1 spotlight Saturday with a Six! Howard’ 1b hit shouout performance in the Knosp ‘ob Ralph Mann ,who last week 26 foot mark. set a school record in the 440 eeoad : BYU swept the event, a trick hurdles, was entered in the 440 “ right, and Don French clear the next to the they have turned in every dual dash this week and gave Roger neet this year, as Pertti Pousi|Colglazier a good race befoe last hurdle in near perfect timing. Bonin won the event, but sailed out 25-7% and Kari Pal- the ACC sprinter won with a boi runners were clocked at 14 flat. The Cougars won the Mann’s 3-2 mark after 40 and 15-0 vi tories over Wyoming Saturda 3 rp 1 1 gameseries with the Rams. lorg, If Ken Crosby moved into the Maxwell, rf of 25-9, Blaisdell was just three- place ribbon for the Cougars. time. 5 5 4 3 4 rado State in a rain abbreviat- Brigham Young University (2) ed gameFriday afternoon 5-2 Player AB K H RBI to take a 2-1 edge in the three Fairbanks, cf oo 3 owe viously heid jointly by NCAA mance from Mike Johnson in |47.1 3 in Salt Lake City The Cougars defeated squad Jast year, hit the board which made a good raceof it men had a Jeap of 24-10. University, dropping the first Kerstien, ss ond game6-0 Finkbeiner, cf The Cougars now sport a 42 Holek, ¢ record inle ‘ S Southwick, 2b good for a slim half-game Villano, 1b over Utah which now sports * Uchida’ If game 5-2 and winning the sec- Bell, rf Young University was enroute ed into shape this spring. to an easy 96% to 48% dual Both relay events provided + meettrack victory over Abilene somethrills for the spectators. College Saturday afternoon un- The Cougars mis-handled the quarters of an nch shy of the versity ‘hitting role, slammed a single of for an RBI, but the rally was cut short before the Cougars could punch anymore across, Athletic Conference Saturday irst Game: afternoon by splitting a double- Colorado State University (5) header with Colorado State Player AB R RBI jump of the day and established served a mission. He returned der sunny skies at the BYU stadium. Blaisdell, who was the top point man on the BYU track U You first place in the Northern Division race of the Wes' ss ment for Francis, especially in light of the fact his training an all around has been hampered by a bro- Bro esi cwres By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor Jim Blaisdell, werOsesscscoonm Long Jump Mark Shutout As BYU Gains Series Nod * +i T 2 000 02-2 110 30-5 WILMINGTON, N. C. (UPI)— Winning pitcher—Richard ZinLarry Mowry, seeking his! niger (7-0). Losing piteher— ue Booster week will siart with! Mile realy — Abilene Chris ow kouees a : eS cSasaEd. be, iS iit 2 Waa ss aa window stickers being handed tan (Grayer, Crawford, Jones, r) 110.9; BYU 3:11.0.) LAkiey ny w¥ Slaps a Hara sigie to let Hed Ww score firs. game oe a uous r, BYU won the second game to out on April 26th, Saturday, at | Colg 8:00 am, in the respective) Final score - (BYU 96%, | one run in a pinch hit role for the Cougars again.i Colorado gain a 21 edge in the series, areas, Abilene Christian College 48%.| State, The hit was not enough, as BYU went down 5-2 in the second straight win, and part- Johnson. time tour player Terry Wilcox 9B—Fairbs ks, Howard 2, played steady golf in driving] Berge 2, Folster, Bell, lead with five-under-par 135s in} Finkbeiner. lead with five-uder-p ar135snin| IP H RER BB SO |the second rovnd of the Azalea|Johnson 5 11 5 5 1 0 |Open tournament, anger 8 9 2 2 3 9 |