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Show 1, m ii i ii-iiiii . mi... u iiiiii in nr.iK Davis High School had eight wrestlers place in the 3-A State Tournament, Tourna-ment, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the University of Utah's Special Events Center in Salt Lake City, and Uintah High School had seven tusslers nab honors. However, four of Uintah's seven matmen placed second, and four of Davis' eight tusslers nabbed fourth, fifth and sixth places. Davis had one first place winner in Roger Parcell at 119 pounds, and had three thirds, one fourth, one fifth and two sixths. The Uintah Utes had four second placers in Brett Brown, 98; Jeff Good, 119; Randy Smuin, 145 and Ken Cobbs, heavyweight. Uintah had one third place, Matt Hacking, 138; one fourth place, Ron Horrocks, 105 and one fifth place, Foston Chivers, 112. Brett Brown's opponent in the championship cham-pionship contest was Dale Tominaga of West. Tominaga was 27-0, and was the pre-tourney favorite. "Tominaga was very very lucky to win. Brett has done an outstanding job all year long. He has found a weight class that is comparable to his size. Dale Tominaga scored an escape in the final seconds on a controversial con-troversial call because the West wrestler might have been off the mat. They called stalling on Brett, but never called stalling on West," stated Chuck Henry, Uintah High School wrestling coach. Jeff Good won three matches in a row to get in the finals, and one of his victories vic-tories was a 6-1 decision over Scott Harmer, Region Six champ from Springville. Spr-ingville. "Jeff wrestled an outstanding tournament. Good had a 2-1 lead in the championship match, but he was called for stalling with about 20 seconds left. A stalling call in the second round gave Todd Grover of Bear River his first point. Good was going for the win. but he made one mistake and he got turned. If we had been able to keep our 2-1 lead that never would have happened," said Henry. Another Uintah Ute sophomore. Randy Ran-dy Smuin, pocketed second place in the state tourney. A sophomore. Randy Smuin, was pitied against senior, Jim Bell of Box Elder, who many coaches felt was one of the best wrestlers in the tournament. "Randy wrestled a very good match, which he very easily could have won," said Henry. "There were 20 seconds left in the third round and we chased Bell all over the mat, and they wouldn't call him for stalling. If they would have called him for stalling we would have lied up the match He was hanging on to win. They made Jeff Good wrestle, but not wrestlers on the other teams." Spnngville's Jeff Roylance won the heavyweight crown with a 9 to 8 decision deci-sion over Uintah's Ken Cobbs, but Roylance's coach, Newbury, according to Uintah coach. Chuck Henry, was upset how l he match ended. Roylance was given an escape with about 30 seconds left for a 9 8 w in when it looked as if he was out-of-bounds. Chuck Henry. Uintah's coach, remarked. "The Springville coach. Newbury, came over to me after the match, and with tears in his eyes said, 'The official cost you a state champion. They cost you the match and the overtime.' Kenny Ken-ny was disappointed. I thought the aggressor ag-gressor in the match was Ken Cobbs." Matt Hacking won his first two matches mat-ches due to pins and was defeated in overtime in another controversial match. mat-ch. James Larkin of Viewmont was given an escape at the buzzer that allowed him to tie Hacking and force the semi-final match into overtime. The overtime ended at 2-2, but Larkin won the contest because he scored a near fall and Hacking had just a takedown. However, Hacking refused to let the disappointment of not being in the finals, which is the dream of every high school wrestler, hurt the Uintah team as he won two matches in a row over region champs, Craig Cook, Pleasant Grove and Mike Gallegos, Hen Lomond, to take third place and deliver valuable points to the Utes. Ron Horrocks wrestled two years with Uintah's junior varsity team and he had to wrestle a number of junior varsity matches this year as a senior because Monte Morris had defeated him in wrestle offs. However, Horrocks downed Morris in wrestle offs and won a spot on Uintah's region and state tournament tour-nament team. Horrocks made the most of his final year of wrestling as he placed plac-ed fourth in the ll).r pound class. "Ronnie paid his dues for two years by wrestling on the junior varsity team, and he never gave up hope that he would make the varsity team as a senior," said Henry. "He has done a remarkable job. He gave Stewart Richards, the stale champ, his toughest match. Hon came back and heat Gorcth Hayes of Cyprus, second placer at region and Lance Uushnell, Tooele, first placer at region, in the consolation matches. Horrocks placed third in the region meet. He was defeated by Kendall Ken-dall Wilson, Region Six chump from Springville, hut he fought the Wilson kid all the way to the buzzer." Foston Oliver's fifth place finish was one of the outstanding performances in the 3-A Stale Tournament . Olivers had missed a whole year of competition when he was Injured early last season and had to have two knee operations. "Olivers was having a hard time getting get-ting hack to wrestling like he was before lie got hurt. I saw a real change in Foston about a month ago. He was getting good enough to phu-o at the state tournament," staled Henry "H(. lost to Harry Frazier, 7 5. w ho w as picked pick-ed as the most outstanding wrestler in the slate tournament. H, defeated region champ, M:l,k Jacobs. Woods (ross in the quarter finals He he,,! Hon Elder's Greg Uies for fifth place." Henry added, "Hillv Hedell 167 K ,v Smuin, is:, and Art Dah-v, m did an oulslanding job. They 1 earned points U all of your team memtM-i s can s.-oi o points your team should w in the state Ii 110 1,11,1 ,," ' '! la,,M-ned in our case Aggressive wrvstli" '''" minutes is what won the Uih'' for the Uintah Utes " The 3 A State TiMirn;"Nl1 .. well, but there were ?0,"cli w ith the scoi r kivp'i-s v;,M"!",v. didn't put the points on H,rN. ., and sonietinies )omts cir il'1 v wrong opponent Their 1 commiinnation pn'blcin ,v'" 1 referees and the sivir llV'., por w rest ter tound out f,rr 1 v, i was over that hr . o')' '.t p-mt lleciuM. I didn'l ,vtt ly N-lnnd by our (omt. CVh |