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Show y : " ;.iW!JLi " 1 ' X x t x ' J ........ vsl -! " yC sJZjjlj:st ' Y - ' "f j X i : UINTAH HIGH SCHOOL'S Robert Poole, top, competes with Morgan Batty in the first day of wrestling practice. Fifty tusslers turned out for the opening day of practice at Uintah High School, Monday. irefliuiirin! ft ft Cue oinKoiuS Fifty matmen competed in the first day of wrestling practice at Uintah High School, Monday. "We have an increase in-crease of at least a dozen kinds as compared com-pared to last year. We had our wrestlers going through conditioning skills, timing and various other things during the first day of practice," stated Uintah High School head wrestling coach. Chuck Henry. The Uintah Utes are the defending 3-A State Wrestling Tournament Champions. Cham-pions. The Utes have won 12 out of the past 13 state championships and have won six titles in a row. Uintah has won 14 state championships. Uintah has a number of wrestlers returning to the team, who placed in state meets. Brett Brown, Jeff Good and Randy Smuin placed second in the 1980 meet and Josh Reynolds nabbed first place and Rick Huber netted sixth place in the 1979 meet. Starters returning return-ing from last year's team are Monte Mon is. Brown, Reynolds, Good, Cory McNeill, Allen Huber and Smuin. Rick Huber was a starter on the 1979 team. Uintah lettermen are Morris, Brown, Reynolds, Good, McNeill, Smuin, Allen Huber, Rick Huber, Keith Campbell, Brent Hales, Don Bohrer and Frank At-wood. At-wood. . Reynolds, who placed first in 1979 at the state meet in the 98 pound class, will be wrestling at 112 or 119 pounds according accor-ding to Coach Henry. Brown, who placed plac-ed second at 98 pounds in 1980, will be at 105 pounds and Good, who netted second se-cond at 119 in 1980, will be at 119 or 126 pounds. Smuin, who captured second place at 145 pounds, will be at 155 pounds. The rest of the Uintah wrestlers are: Morris, 98 or 105 (saw a lot of action last year at 105 pounds); Campbell, 112 or 119; Rick Huber, 119 or 126; Layne Chapman, 126; McNeill, 132 or 138 (saw action last year at 126); Atwood, 132 or 138; Hales, 167; Allen Huber, 138 istarter last year at 132); Bohrer, 185; Roger Griffin, 185; Jay Burkett, 112, (a transfer from Iowa); Greg Sanders, 119; Morgan Batty, 119; Robert Poole, 167 or 185; Robert Schultz, 167; Russ Anderson, 185; Robert Lee, 235 pound heavyweight; Mike O'Malley, 105; sophomores-Tracy Henline, Brent Morrill, Mor-rill, Mike Massey, Mark Augustus, 98; Giese, Shawn Colton, 112; David Gentry, Gen-try, Larsen Caldwell, 119; Kent Boren, Brad Dickson, Jamie Evans, 126; Dar-rin Dar-rin Bailey, Torr McCurdy 132; Bucky . Tingey, 138; Pat Jenkins, 145; Jody Young, Dennis Mitchell, Glen Ellsworth, Ellswor-th, 155; Jerry Haslem, Scott Gardner, ' David Snow, 167 and David Weeks, heavyweight, 225 pounds. However, wrestlers might move into other weight classes. "This is probably the best group of sophomores in numbers and experience at Uintah High School since I have been here. We (Uintah) will be in a rebuilding year in a sense, but we have a good number of starters, lettermen and state tournament placers back. There is a possibility of sophomores starting in two or three weights. We will be young at the first of the season, but ' we should mature into an excellent team by the middle of January," stated Henry. f f . . j - . j I 5 -' ' " ' J- ..-"- ' ' 1 - y . " - '.' . ' . M A O . UINTAH TUSSLERS, Brett Brown, left and Jeff Good, right, clash as Uintah wrestling coach, Chuck Henry, looks on. Brown and Good placed second in the 1980 state tournament. Randy Smuin also placed second. .. .... .- " " - v-. s j .. ' 7 . I . . . r THE UTES' Don Bohrer, right, picks up Brent Hales, left, and prepares to drop him to the can- v .ifc, Sn it in i' i i rTiimiriiiHf irirwnftgnirtu d i r rT in m V i r -'- " 1 1 ni mii - J vas. Wrestle offs are set for November 22 at Uintah High School on November 22. |