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Show . Athletic Rivalry Continues Thursday By Steve Lowe Staff Writer The University of Utah-BYU i athletic rivalry continues Thursday Thurs-day night at Einar Nielsen Field-house Field-house at 7:30 p.m. when wrestlers wres-tlers from the two schools face each other. Coach Marv Hess takes his grapplers into the dual meet with a 10-7-1 season rec ord and is out to revenge a 24-8 defeat at the hands of the Cougars, Cou-gars, at Provo. BYU, last year's WAC champions, cham-pions, counters with three of the conference's best matmen in Jeff Bachelor (130 lbs.), Howard Hall (145 lbs.) and Steve Epperson (160 lbs.). The Provo grapplers are co-favorites with Arizona Russo has placed second in the conference twice, and last year Culp was second in the nation. The three meets will give the Utes a glimpse of the Western Athletic Conference Championship Champion-ship March 10 and 11 at Tucson, Ariz. Last year the Utes placed third in the WAC and will be out to repeat or improve at Tucson. Tuc-son. In dual meets held last weekend, week-end, the Ute grapplers turned back Montana State 26-10 and Hyrum Scott 15-12. Wrestlers that won both nights were Lem-mon Lem-mon (137 lbs.), -Castillo (152 lbs.), and Jensen (160 lbs.). State to cop the coveted league title. On the same bill with the Ute-Cougar tussell, Wyoming will mix with Arizona State. A Long Weekend? The Utah success hopes for the long weekend rest largely on the shoulders of the injured Glen Cook and Bob Kawa. These two are questionable starters, and without them, it could be a long weekend for the scrapping Utes. Friday afternoon the wrestlers continue the battle in a tough tilt with Wyoming. The Cowboys, who got eked out of second place last year by six points, will be ready. Probably their toughest contender will be Ray Sanchez, a 123 lb. giant that has lost only two matches in his life. They will also counter with Don Miller Mill-er (177 lbs.), last year's conference confer-ence titleholder, Dale Kujath (152 lbs.) and Tom Thompson, wrestling heavyweight. Meet With Sun Devils Utah's weakening weekend concludes in a dual meet with the Arizona State Sun Devils Saturday Sat-urday afternoon- at 1:30 at the Ute Fildhouse. Utah will have to pop the bulging muscles of Russo (130 lbs.), Glen McMann (123 lbs.) and Curly Culp (heavyweight) (heavy-weight) if they expect to chase the Sun Devils back to Arizona. .1 ..vmwuhu, in. h l'l'l'-l'lW"W"WtJJia.lMl.iii.lt,IL . J " Lemon and Kawa warm-up for the match with BYU Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Einar Nielson fieklhouse. v |