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Show Uintfcuh Utfe, AAeeEier Cowboy inert wcor ends en 2 1-2 1 fie "'The defending state champions from 'dorado, Meeker, leaped out to a 15 to 3 ; ad by winning five of the first six mattes, mat-tes, but the 1979 state champs from Mah, Uintah High School, forced the Wt in Meeker, Colorado, Saturday in- . a tie at 21-21 with four wins in the rial six matches. Meeker grabbed a 9-0 lead with vic-' vic-' Cries in the 98, 105 and 112 pound ! 'asses. The Cowboys' Scott Fandrich f ippled Uintah's Josh Reynolds, 6 to 3, ! the 98 pound encounter. Fandrich Kjbbed a takedown in the first round, lijd Reynolds pocketed an escape in the 1'rcond round. Fandrich added a '.kedown in the second round. Both atmen nabbed reversals in the third "und. The Utes' Monte Morris, 105, jumped it to a 2-0 lead when he picked up a kedown in the first round, but Willie ael reversed the Ute tussler to tie the k atch up at 2-2. Rael nabbed an escape id a takedown in the second round to in the contest, 5 to 2. Tad Sullivan, a fending state champ in Colorado, iwned Uintah's 112 pounder, Foston livers, 7 to 2. Uintah gained its first win of the 'ening when sophomore, Jeff Good, pped Deak Chamberlain, 7 to 4, in the 59 pound battle. Chamberlain nabbed Kakedown in the first round, but Good pocketed a reversal to tie the score at 2-2. Good picked up a reversal and a three-point near fall in the second round to win the contest, 7 to 4. The Meeker Cowboys won the next two matches, which increased their lead to 15 to 3. Kai Turner, Meeker, 126, nipped Uintah's Cory McNeill, 8 to 6, and Mitch Holeyfield, 132, downed Uintah's Uin-tah's Frank Atwood, 6-2. Kai Turner jumped out to a 6 to 4 lead in the first round, but Cory McNeill gained a reversal in the second round to narrow Turner's lead to one point, 7 to 6 at the end of the second round. Turner nabbed an escape in the third round for an 8-6 win. Mitch Holeyfield nabbed a takedown in the first round and a reversal rever-sal and a two-point near fall in the second se-cond round for a 6-0 lead. Atwood scored two points in the final round. The second half of the meet was all Uintah as they won four of the final six matches due to two'pins, a forfeit and a decision to tie up the contest at 21-21. Matt Hacking, 138, gained the second win of the evening for the Uintah Utes when he pinned Bradshaw with 15 seconds left in the first round. The Utes narrowed the Cowboys' lead 15 to 12 when sophomore, Randy Smuin, 145, blanked Jerry Calhoun, 3-0. Smuin nabbed nab-bed a takedown in the first round and an escape in the third round. I ' - ',''', ; ' ' - . .. jj1 i , i I - - - j PSs-- 1 r "v, c .'..-.. - r y 5- . - ' ' f I - - . J V : V ;' 1 I THE UTES' Foston Chivers turns Union's Steve Bowden into a j pinning situation. Chivers downed Bowden, 6 to 0. A Meeker gained a 21 to 12 advantage with victories in the 155 and 167 pound classes. Tony Seely of Meeker toppled Kay Smuin, 155, 8 to 2, and Tony Mazzola, Maz-zola, Meeker, edged Billy Bedell, 167, 4 to 2. Seely had only a 2 to 1 lead in the first round, but two three-point near falls in the second round gave him an 8 to 2 win over Smuin. Bedell leaped out to a 2 to 0 advantage in the first round due to a takedown, but Mazzola escaped and nabbed a takedown for a 3-2 lead. Mazzola Maz-zola added an escape in the second round. Uintah's Ken Cobbs, 195, downed Mike Seely of Meeker, 8 to 2 and Don Bohrer won the heavyweight match due to a forfeit, which forced the contest into in-to a 21-21 tie. Cobbs nabbbed a takedown in the first round and a reversal, rever-sal, two-point near fall in the second round for a 6-0 lead. Cobbs added a takedown in the third round. "I thought we had a good week of wrestling for having three meets in a row. Union has a good wrestling team. Our Uintah tusslers wrestled very well against Cyprus, a region opponent. When you wrestle at Meeker you have a tough dual meet, and we were fortunate to leave Meeker with a tie because their kids from 145 pounds and down moved down a weight class. We had a chance to win it but we didn't quite get the clinching clin-ching points to win," stated Uintah High School wrestling coach, Chuck Henry. Henry added, "Jeff Good wrestled very well in beating Deak Chamberlain. Matt Hacking and Randy Smuin did a good job in the middle weights. Tony Mazzola is the best 167 pounder we have seen this year, and . ,.-. '.'- ': i - ' ." ' ' V ' i I , : .X . .y - ...... .. v 1 - ':- ( -'-' fff: A i ' ' fc .;-'. i'r i y" ": . :. '-' I .. 0A .... "'" v " " " p",.. - ""-v. " ; -j U t- ' " -- 1 ' -1 FRANK WINN of Union, left, was the winner in the 155 pound encounter with Uintah's Kay Smuin, right. Winn's win was the second of four Billy Bedell lost to him, 4 to 2. We didn't get a takedown in the second round even though Bedell had control. If we would have gotten the takedown the match would have ended in a 4-4 tie. We needed a major decision to win in Ken Cobbs' match, but he wrestled well and won 8 to 2. Cory McNeill wrestled well. He had to lose six pounds in one day." The Uintah Utes will compete in the Green River Tournament, Friday and Saturday. The meet will consist of junior varsity and varsity teams. Teams that will be competing in the tourney are: Cheyenne Central. wins in the meet with Uintah, January 16. Uintah Uin-tah thumped Union, Cyprus and tied wrestling power from Colorado, Meeker, 21-21. Natrona, Kelly Walsh, Star Valley, Riverton, Green River, Highland, Idaho; Evanston, Nampa, Idaho; Lander Valley, Rock Springs, Uintah, Cody, Rawlings, Box Elder, and Skyline, Idaho. Wrestling action will begin Friday at 1 p.m. and the quarterfinals are set for 6:30 p.m. the semi-finals will start at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, and the finals will begin at 7:45 p.m. Casper Natrona, Cheyenne Central, Uintah, Nampa, Box Elder and Rock Springs should be the top teams in the tourney. The top six teams in the state of Utah are: Uintah, Davis, Box Elder, Woods Cross, Pleasant Grove and West. -Woods Cross beat Box Elder, 26 to 24," stated Chuck Henry. The Utes will battle Murray, Tuesday and Jordan, January 31 in Region 7 meets in Vernal at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Uintah will host Green River, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, February 1 and will compete in the Region 7 Tournament, February 7 in Tooele. The 3-A State Tournament is set for February 14-16 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. |
