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Show The Japanese couldn't speak English and the Utah wrestlers couldn't express themselves in Japanese, but they both understood one item and that was the sport of wrestling. Once the match began, English and Japanese speaking problems were quickly forgotten as the main item was defeating your opponent. op-ponent. The wrestlers expressed themselves with takedowns, back points, pins and other items. Most of the Utah tusslers haven't competed in many freestyle matches, but they put up a good fight, and only lost to the Japanese by one point, 6 to 5, Dec. 30 at Uintah High School. Five Utah wrestlers, Josh Reynolds, Stewart Richards, John Robbins,-.. Randy Smuin and Jody Young won encounters. Reynolds, Robbins and Smuin pinned their opponents. If Utah could have received some breaks in a number of matches, they could have won the meet as Jeff Good tied his Japanese opponent at 7-7, but lost on a tie-breaker and Pat Jenkins dropped a close encounter by the score of 7-6. The Utah wrestling fans didn't understand un-derstand the Japanese most of the time due to their lack of knowledge of the Japanese language, but one time they didn't need an interpreter to tell them what the Japanese were shouting as it was obvious that the Japanese were shouting the equivalent of "Pin, pin, pin" in their language as one of their teammates had an opponent on his back in a pinning situation. All of the Japanese wrestlers had to compete in a number of meets in Japan and the tusslers who made the team were undefeated and the best in Japan. However, one wrestler by the name of Hayime Kanemura quickly became defeated as he was placed flat against the mat by former Uintah Ute tussler Josh Reynolds after only 53 seconds of wrestling action in the first round in the opening contest in the meet in Vernal Dec. 30. The Utah team won two of the first three matches and nabbed a tie in the second match. Jeff Good had a 6-3 lej going into the third round, bi Toshihiko Ayai rallied for a 7-7 tie a won the match due to more back point Richards thumped his opponent ll-ii the third match of the meet. A 6-5 victory was nabbed by tj Japanese team as they won 5 of t remaining eight matches. Six of tl final eight matches ended in falls for; total of 7 pins in 11 matches. Yasuhaf' Hayashi pinned Torr McCurdy in tr second round and Osamu Iokai pinned Chad Gallagher in 1:09 of tJ first round. Hisahara Hayashi pinnc; Utah's Gary Coffman with one seem left in the second round to give tj' Japanese a 6-5 triumph. Kazumi Daip had a 3-1 lead going into the secoo" round, but Utah's John Robbins gainji , a fall in the second round. Japan gainet revenge in the 165 pound match as Jef Allredge had a 5-0 lead after one roun but lost when he was pinned I Hiroyuki Matsui in the second roun ' Uintah's Randy Smuin pinw Yoshinoba Hirayama with two secora left in the second round. There are a number of English word, that appear to have been adopted intlj Japanese language such as salt an pepper, steak, orange, milk, coke, jell ice cream, and root beer. f Utah coach Chuck Henry and a wrestlers would shout instructions I English to their man out on the mat as the Japanese coaches would deliv messages to their wrestler. I i Before the meet began the tean leader of the Japanese team, Yoshihiki Ota, delivered a message to the Utal crowd in Japanese and then Rodnq Dredge, an interpreter from Salt Lah City, gave the English version of til message which was as follows: "Thaal you for the invitation to your beautiM country. I like to learn about America culture and this meet will promod friendship between the United States a America and Japan." tvA. A. jK AAiV |