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Show Uintah High School's arch-rival in the past two state wrestling tournaments Box Elder blasted Bonneville, 57 to 6, recently. Box Elder placed second to the first place Utes in the 1979 and 1980 state tournaments. Box Elder's 98 pounder, Jim Smoot pinned Dave Hodson of Bonneville at the 44 second mark. Randy Stanger, 105, Box Elder, won his match due to a forfeit and Stewart Richards, 112, a defending state champion, pinned Tom Sackett of Bonneville at the 5:40 mark. Stewart's brother, Mike Richards pinned Wayne Ogden of Bonneville, 119, at the 1:15 mark and Sil Jeppson, Box Elder, pinned Damon Sholly at the 2:25 mark in the 126 pound contest. Brooks Denkers, Box Elder, decisioned Ron Baxter, Bonneville, 6-2 and increased Box Elder's lead to 33 to 0. Baxter is a former Vernal wrestler. Bonneville gained its first win in the meet when Roy Bowcutt toppled Kip Batty, 8 to 2. Box Elder returned to its winning ways when Dwight Goodwin pinned Chris Bradshaw at the 3:35 mark of the 145 pound contest. Bonneville's Bon-neville's Dave Terry won the 155 pound contest when he decisioned Darrin Marble, Mar-ble, 14-7. Box Elder won the final three matches mat-ches to make the final score: Box Elder, 57 Bonneville, 6. Brent Nichols, 167, pinned Brent South at the 54 second mark and Steve Skrobiszewski won his match due to a default at 185 pounds. Shawn Gardner, heavyweight, pinned Tim Garfield at the 1:37 mark. The 98 pound class should be one of the outstanding weights in the state of Utah with two defending region champions cham-pions returning in Brett Brown of Uintah Uin-tah and Jim Smoot of Box Elder.- Uintah wrestlers have been tearing up the wrestling world during the past two weeks and the Utes have also become a pin happy team. Pat Jenkins, who is only a sophomore, has garnered four pins in five matches. He pinned opponents from Springville and Alta and two of his three wins in the Steamboat Springs Tournament were gained due to pins. Another sophomore, Darrin Bailey, pinned pin-ned three of his four opponents in the Steamboat Springs Tournament. Seniors, Brett Brown and Josh Reynolds and junior, Randy Smuin, have pinned three of their five opponents. op-ponents. Brown captured first place in 4he Steamboat Springs Tournament--when he blasted the defending Colorado state champion from Soroco, Joe Robinson, 12-0, in the championship match. He also defeated Joe Gutierrez of Meeker, 6-3. Gutierrez placed third at the 1980 state meet in Colorado. . A number of Uintah Utes and Union Cougars turned in outstanding performances perfor-mances in the valley tournament. Union sophomores, Bardett Fausett, 98 pounds and Jeff Samuels, 105, captured first place titles. Brian Hamilton, Union senior, netted first place in the 138 pound class. Three Uintah Utes pocketed second place titles in the Valley Tournament. Kent Boren, 126; Jody Young, 155 and Frank Atwood, 145, captured second place titles. Atwood, who gets himself ready for the wrestling season by shaving his head (he does it to dedicate himself for wrestling), appeared to have the 145 pound championship won, but Tracy Walsh of Olympus gained a takedown at the buzzer to defeat Atwood for the . championship, 5 to 4. Another interesting match in the tournament was the heavyweight encounter en-counter between gigantic James Faulkner of Mountain View and Robert Schultz. The smaller Schultz gained the takedown, but Faulkner grabbed Schultz and flattened Schultz with a pin a few seconds later. The Uintah Utes will host the defending defen-ding state champions from Wyoming, Rock Springs, Thursday, Montrose, Colorado defeated Rock Springs in a dual meet recently. The Montrose crew won eight of the 12 matches. Hower, 119 and Ashmore, 167, won their matches mat-ches and the 126 pound match ended in a tie. Rock Springs also won one other ' match. |