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Show ' ' . ;...,.- ' I J -, . t . .r ! - j s. - - I ............ 1l " I 4 - . ' ""l aMmrn jintMiMmM 'i ". . i . . ill L Jill 111 IU IHWJMUil 1 L A 65 to -1 RECORD is just about official as Uintah heavyweight, David Weeks, top, applies the pressure for a pin in his match with Provo's Pat Snyder, bottom. Snyder tries to push Weeks :?' r, J .... VM . . ..... - .... I SOPHOMORE, WILBERT WOODY, right and Union senior, Far-rell Far-rell McCook, left, stage a wild battle in the 126 pound match in the Uintah-Union dual meet. McCook edged Woody 15 to 12 in the final seconds of the third round. i- V S., ; M i. '. :fi''v.. " u i" r?vt AN ESCAPE is hoped for by Uintah's Jeff Good, right, as he tries to kick free from Union's Brent Cundall. Good thumped Cundall 114. away, but Weeks won the match due to a pin. Provo's score became -1 when Snyder was called for a misconduct penalty shortly after the match. OavSd Weeks becomes a hero wiflh record seffing pm in Uve victory ' By Alrlon Rachele Uintah heavyweight David Weeks encountered sad times in the Utes' 55 to ; 3 victory over the Timpview Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds Dec. 3 as his 5-2 setback was the only loss suffered by the Utes, but ,' happy times were encountered by Weeks who proved he wasn't a weak ; wrestler when he pinned Provo's Pat - Snyder with 26 second left in the second round Thursday which enabled Uintah ! to defeat the Bulldogs 65 to -1 for a new school record. "He was strong, but I knew I had to beat him because we were going for a school record. We all wanted to do it for the coach. I did everything coach said to do. I pinned him with a half. I kept . working on it and listened to coach. He '. was hard to put down and 1 kept on ' doing everything I knew how to get his shoulders to the mat. I feel better than last week," stated Weeks. This past week was Weeks' week as he pinned Union's Gar Powell with three seconds left in the first round. Uintah downed Union 43-11. "Coach told me to work harder this week and wrestle like I know how. Powell fell into it and I had to hold him in the ring for the win. I pinned him with a Steamboat Springs body press," said Weeks. Ten members of the Uintah wrestling team, three coaches and the Ute fans watched the pin by Weeks which gave the Utes a new school record, but 155 pounder Uintah Ute Randy Smuin sat in the emergency room and wondered if the Utes acquired the record. "My opponent set out and I jerked him back into me and I suffered a cut above my eye. Six stitches were needed to close it up. I looked at Coach Henry and he looked at me and he said, 'It will need stitches,' but I said tape it up. Henry said, 'Then get it over in a hurry,' He didn't want it to get ripped up any more. I used an arm bar jerk back to pin him. I got the right arm bar, hooked his chin and jerked him back and then laid on him and applied pressure for the pin. It probably took 20 seconds to pin him and took 59 seconds overall," stated Smuinm. "This is one night to remember. Our team set a school record and I got six stitches. I was in the emergency room in the hospital wondering if Weeks pinned him. He was ahead when I left and he pinned him while I was in the hospital. All the fans and wrestlers had left the gymnasium when I returned and found out that Uintah had gained the record. It was one of our goals before we came out tonight." Uintah sophomore 119 pounder Wilbert Woody acquired his first pin as a member of the varsity team. When asked what hold he used to pin Greg Rhiner of Provo, Woody remarked, "It was just a hold. I pinned him with an arm bar. I turned him on his back and locked the hands on the bottom. It's my first varsity pin and it feels great." Another Ute sophomore Jerry Tingey, 98, also nabbed a pin. "I used an arm bar for the pin and I will just try to keep winning all my matches," said Tingey. Brent Morrill, 105; Keith Campbell, 112; Pat Jenkins, 167 and Jody Young, 185, also pocketed pins for the Utes in the meet with Provo. "The 65 to -1 win ' was great. I used a half nelson for the pin. I just took him down, used the step through, put on the half and applied pressure for the pin," commented Young. "We wanted the record before we went out there. Weeks was the one who needed to do it to get the school record and he came through. I used a half nelson for the pin. It was opened and I went for it I was trying to get the cradle, but I couldn't get it," said Campbell. Jenkins pinned his opponent due to an arm bar hold. "I took him down, swept his arm when he came down, rolled him over, hooked his chin and then pinned him," said Jenkins. "It was a great team effort. Everyone did a great job especially David Gentry. He came through with a forfeit and six points." When asked to comment on the school record of 65 to -1 by the Utes, Chuck Henry, Uintah wrestling coach, stated, "We were going for it last week and this week we tried again and got it. Our matmen wrestled 100 percent better tonight than against Union. Weeks just needs varsity experience and he's getting it now. We wanted him to win his match more than the record. We were more concerned with him getting a win and when he placed his opponent on his back we knew we would gain the team record and the kids really got behind him. We showed we were a pinning team in the Steamboat Springs Tourney and they saw that again in the meet with Provo. The Uintah junior varsity team got a shutout last week when they beat Timpview 67-0 and our varsity got its shutout this week." The 65 to -1 score breaks the old records of 64-0 gained in meets with Cyrpus, 1978 and Lehi, 1976. Uintah's Jeff Good and Union's Brent Cundall have been involved in a number of close matches in past years, but this wasn't the case this year as Good downed Cundall 11-4 in Uintah's 43-11 win over Union in Vernal Dec. 9. "I went out and wrestled aggressive on him. I knew he wasn't going to out wrestle me. I wanted to get first control and wrestle my style. I kept wrestling aggressive and scoring points," stated Good. The Utes' Morrill was almost a wrestling team all by himself as he ripped Union's 105 pounder Ryan Winn 29-0. "He was hard to pin. I couldn't pin him. I tried, but I couldn't do it. It is a good start for my first varsity match of the year. I was working well with the cross face cradle, half nelson and bars. I kept going after him but couldn't get the pin," said Morrill. A pin was awarded at the buzzer to . Jenkins in the first round in his match with Charles Percival, but the timekeeper said it came after the buzzer sounded. Jenkias went on to pin Percival in the second round. "He wasn't pinned at the buzzer. It rang before the fall. He was a tough kid who had a lot of try in him and didn't like getting pinned. I pinned him in the second round with an arm bar. I had him in a lateral drop in the first few seconds of the first round, but the referee thought it was an illegal throw, but it wasn't," said Jenkins. Sophomore Woody dropped a wild 15-12 15-12 match to Union senior Farrell McCook Mc-Cook at 119 pounds. "I would get a reversal and he would come back and take me down. He would let me go and he would get the takedown and that's how he beat me. I got a neutral late in the match and he got me again for a takedown and a two-point near fall," said Woody. Also nabbing pins for the Utes were Tingey, 98; Smuin, 155 and Young, 185. "I used a reverse half for the pin. I just . took him down and put the half on him," said Young. "I wanted to go out there and win with a pin." "I turned him with a double arm bar and then I switched to the half nelson for the pin. We needed the pin to get |
