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Show WAC champs Utah snares eighth swim crown win the WAC meet, but the Utes' margin of victory was 80 points greater than in the 1969 meet. The Utes scored 139 points Thursday to take a 17-point lead. They brought their total Friday to 336 and held a two-day lead of 68 points. The final scores were: Utah 539, Colorado State 415, Brigham Young 347, New Mexico 223, Wyoming, 142, Arizona State 1 1 1 and Arizona 38. BY GEOFF TOWNS Sports Editor "The name of the game is to win when it counts," said Utah coach Don Reddish after his swimmers ran away with their eighth Western Athletic Conference Confer-ence (WAC) title Saturday night. After being unable to defeat Brigham Young or Colorado State during the dual meet season, Utah led in the WAC meet from the first event and outscored second-place second-place CSU by 124 points and third-place BYUby 192. Three Gold Medals Although Utah garnered only three first places to Colorado State's seven, the Utes had the i advantage of great depth plus some unexpected outstanding performances. per-formances. Jim Rasmussen pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the meet by winning the 1,650 yard freestyle. free-style. Rasmussen not only beat Olympic silver medalist Ralph Hutton of CSU, but posted a time of 17: 12.49 which Coach Reddish said may be the third fastest time ever turned in above sea level. In the 500 freestyle held earlier, Rasmussen placed second, less than two seconds behind Hut-ton'. Hut-ton'. No Firsts? Coach Reddish said before the meet that he didn't see an event where Utah could take a first place. But besides Rasmussen, the Utes' 400 and 800 freestyle relay teams finished first in times fast enough to qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships. Five Redskins qualified for individual events in the NCAA meet: Rich Sebert in the 200 freestyle, free-style, Bill Leeflang in the 200 breaststroke, Rick O'Toole in the 1,650 freestyle and Tom Eiche and Gary Conrad in the 200 butterfly. but-terfly. Leeflang's qualifying time of 2:17.16 was seven seconds faster than he had ever swum the event before and it set a meet record. Three seniors, Ted Lewis, Rich Kittel and Rasmussen, although each turning in performances good enough to qualify for at least one NCAA event, will not be eligible to compete. Not Favored This was the third year in a row Utah has not been favored to |