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Show Make home stand Redskin netters face Wyoming Wyoming's No. 1 singles player, Per Hegna, owns a 6-2 individual record for the season. Hannu Ojala at, with a 3-3 record, is No. 2, and Iver Helgoker (7-1) is the No. 3 player. After the Wyoming meet the Utes will prepare for a road trip to the coast in the middle of next week. The Utes will meet University Univer-sity of California at Los Angeles and University of Southern California Cali-fornia on the trip. After suffering a one-point loss to Brigham Young University last week, the Ute tennis team will be pushing to improve its seeding for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Championship Tournament Tourna-ment against Wyoming Saturday. The match will begin at 1 p.m. at the Salt Lake Swimming and Tennis Ten-nis Club. In the loss to BYU, the Redskins, Red-skins, who now hold a 6-3 season record, suffered in the No. 1 and No. 2 singles positions. F. D, Rob-bins, Rob-bins, the No. 1 player for the past two years, was moved to the No. 2 spot because of an elbow ailment. Dan Bleckinger, who regularly fills the No. 2 position, moved to the top spot and lost to the Cou gars' Zdravko Mincek in two sets. And Robbins was upset by BYU's Larry Hall. Utah Coach Harry James said Robbins may remain in the No. 2 spot until his elbow responds to treatment. Saturday's lineup will probably show Bleckinger at No. 1, followed in order by Robbins, Dave Harmon, Steve Krulevitz, Dale Fritz and Bill Bennion. The doubles matches will feature fea-ture Robbins and Krulevitz at No. 1, Bleckinger and Fritz at No. 2 and Bennion and Harmon at No. 3. The Cowboys are coming off a 9-0 victory over Colorado State University and a 6-3 win against Colorado, which raised the team I record to 5-3. P"" ' , ''V, . i t f A : If ; -A s 'A I ' ' I i ... .-. 1 I j r 1 4 L 4 : - ' - V . : 1 Dan Bleckinger will take over the number one tennis spot in Saturday's match with Wyoming. F. D. Robbins, the Utes' former number one player, moved to the number two spot because of an elbow ailment. |