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Show Grapplers seek region title today wrestlers, could throw the tournament Cedar's way. The Redmen come into the regional meet with both impressive regional and overall records. They collectively sport an impressive 39-20 mark in regional matches, winning win-ning 66 percent of the time. Their overall ; marks are even better. ' i Sixty-eight percent of the time this year, CHS wrestlers have been winners; their overall mark stands at 167-77. Likely to be seeded in the top spots at regionals are brothers Dave (5-0 region, 21-1 overall) and Dirk (5-0 region, 20-2 overall) Lopour. Dave wrestles at 167, Dirk at 185. Shreve Damon (4-1, 12-5) and Mark Bryant (3-1, (3-1, 13-8), at 112 and 119 pounds respectively, will also be seeded high. : " Other ' Redmen ' with winning regional marks are Greg Robinson (3-2, 15-6), Chris Hone (3-2, 20-2), 20-2), Galen Matheson (3-2, 11-9), John Davis (3-2, 14- 6) , Shane Baggs (3-2, 11-9) 11-9) and Bob Miller (3-2, 14- 7) . The only two team members with losing regional records still have two wins apiece: Coy Bryant (2-3, 7-12) and freshman Greg Bulloch (2-3,9-10). ""'Preliminary rounds .begin today at noon at the Payson High School Gym, with the tour- s nament scheduled to wrap up by 8:30 p.m. By LEE WARNICK Record Editor The waiting is over for Cedar High's wrestlers. Will they tonight be able to earn a regional championship for first-year first-year coach D.J. Wallace? A Region Six Southern Division championship, up for grabs today at Payson, would be icing on the cake for Wallace, who, championship or not, still expects to take "at least six and maybe up to 10" of his 12 wrestlers to the state 3-A meet. The grapplers completed com-pleted their final tune-up for the big meet, blasting Dixie 43-15 last week. The Reds dominated as expected, winning nine of 12 matches, five by pins. The only disappointment suffered by Wallace was the loss of unlimited weight wrestler Bob Miller to Dixie's Tim Stamper. ' "It's the only time Stamper has beaten Bob in three years of competition," com-petition," said Wallace, A strong Spanish Fork team stands between the Reds and he regional championship, and the two teams' head-to-head meetings to date indicate Cedar will have to be on top of their game to come out on top. . ' The Dons thumped CHS 1 37-22 in their dual match meeting about a month ago. Less than a week later, Cedar placed 12 points behind the Dons in an eight-team tournament tour-nament that included five of the six squads competing com-peting today. But each tournament differs from the other, and how CHS does will depend largely on their early-round performance, per-formance, and how Cedar wrestlers are seeded. One or two unexpected victories, vic-tories, over any team's |
