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Show Mollica, Wells ink pro contracts i I - v y i na Joe Wells Dave Mollica ' Quarterback Dave Mollica and linebacker Joe Wells, graduating Southern Utah State College football players, have signed professional football contracts with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. The two most recent signings brings to three the number of 1981 SUSC graduates signing professional contracts. Earlier, defensive lineman Jeff Rowberry signed with the Dallas Cowboys. Both Mollica and Wells were instrumental in SUSC's 6-3 record and serious challenge for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship. cham-pionship. Mollica, a national statistical leader in passing and total offense, strangely, was signed to a tree agent contract as a defensive back. During the 1979 season at SUSC, Mollica played in the defensive backfield because of injuries to his throwing arm a summer sum-mer earlier. Wells signed as a linebacker, the position he played for the Thunderbirds for four seasons. Both were signed after a tryout camp last week where 105 prospective professional players were drilled by Seahawk staff members. Only four of the 105 were offered contracts, and two of the four were the pair from SUSC. Wells is a 6-3. 231-pound son of J.C. Wells, Tucson, Ariz. He attended high school and participated in football, basketball, and track at Cedar City High School. Mollica is 6-1 and weighs 181 pounds. He is the son of Donald and Carly Mollica, Costa Mesa. Calif. He transferred tran-sferred to SUSC after two years of football at Orange Coast College. Both of the Thun-derbird Thun-derbird athletes won nufherous athletic awards during their high school careers. Both were also named to the all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conf erence team last season. Mollica was also selected a member of the NAIA ail-American honorable mention squad and the Associated Press Little All-American honorable mention team. Wells, who led SUSC scoring as a kicker in 1979, was selected to the second team all-RMAC squad his junior year. "These are a couple of very good athletes," Jack Bishop, SUSC coach, indicates. "I think both of them can stick with the .squad if they perform to their ability." Both will report to the Seahawk. training camp July 18 at Eastern Washington College in ( henev. Wash. |