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Show Summerhays Has Rebuilding Year; Will Try For Second Crown Marine sponsored tournament March 12-13, always a top grade affair. The Marines are considered con-sidered the best service team in the country. Utah finished last year with a regular season record of 20 wins against 13 losses winning the WAC northern division crown for the second straight year. The Utes lost to the nation's number one team, Arizona State in the By CHUCK ZITO Chronicle Sports Writer University of Utah baseball Coach Pres Summerhays announced an-nounced a 40 game schedule for 1966 their most ambitious on record. THE UTES will open the season with a ten game spring training trip to the San Diego area playing such college powers as Stanford, Santa Clara, San Diego State College and California Cali-fornia Western University. They will also play in a San Diego mi ii Hi' 1 " -r "ri" i i piirm n m pi 'iwwhl, umimihw V r ''v f . . J J : I r . ting first baseman Dwayne Freeman Free-man all conference shortstop Graig McKay and veteran third baseman Jerry Fisher. Also lost are the number three hurler Brent Arnold and outfielders Vic Johansen and Bobby Mcleod. Sensational junior rookie Steve Rudulovich from last year has been moved to first base from left field. Steve batted .365 and hit nine home runs in his first college season. Mike Beye-ler Beye-ler is again expected to hold down the Keystone sack. Jerry Pullman and transfer Jack Loughton are battling it out for the hot corner with sophomore Jack Gehrke having the inside track at short Gehrke could be another great one for the Utes. Barry Arnold looks like the number one receiver with back ups from Dave Disorbio, Clyde Eggett and Dean Whitworth. THE OUTFIELD is presently uncertain but should come from veterans Jack White, Tex Tol-man Tol-man and Rus Van Fleet or newcomers new-comers Mark Theodore, Kent Norris, Tom Buxton and Dave Edmonds. Mike Beyer will fill in as Coach Summerhays' second baseman base-man on this year's edition of the University baseball team. Steve Radulovich wil lbe the backbone of the M h team. The Utes are defending northern division t play-offs at Phoenix but gave the Bobby Winkles crew a real scare in two 3-2 thrillers. SUMMERHAYS HAS his work cut out in rebuilding an almost entire new infield. Lost by graduation grad-uation were all conference catcher Gary Selby hard hit- ball career in 1926 ai r-1 ' High School. He was t ' standing shortstop in P-des. P-des. He later performed i- amateur and semi-pro and was a long standou: area. His fine knowledge; game has been augmer:!. continuous association t- fessional baseball. As a collegiate foottt I ;j was a triple threat half:; u the late twenties for Uta- n was an all conference & It two seasons and an Al'.(-' can mention in his junk.i Senior Dave Varvel, firey lefty, will be the number one starter on the mound. Summerhays Summer-hays feels that Dave is one of the best in the nation and will be hard to beat. THE UTES received a real setback when John Noriega, senior sen-ior ace right hander, was signed to a professional contract just as the season was opening. Also returning from last year's mound staff are senior veterans Dennis Udy who has been looking look-ing much improved in early workouts. Senior reliefer Wally Douglas is also back and should help. Juniors George Allen and southpaw Brad Cowley should see a lot of action this year. Both appear stronger than , last year. Up from last year's fresh man squad are three right handers, Pat Clark, John Nord-quist Nord-quist and Dave Duncan Duncan was a top high school hurler out of San Diego and could work right into the starting start-ing role. John Bobich, a transfer from California, rounds out the Ute 10 man staff. Coach Pres Summerhays has been head baseball coach at the University for the past 11 years and during that time his teams won three titles in the now disbanded dis-banded Skyline Conference. His teams won Skyline buntings in 1953, 1959 and 1960. LAST YEAR the Utes under the direction of Pres won the Northern Division of the Western West-ern Athletic Conference. Summerhays began his base- I - - ' it t V" '::ple lji''K y it 'X' ''A Dave Varvel H ... Ute pitcher K |
