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Show Utah favored over USU, ISU Utah will be favored Saturday as the Utah Invitational track and field meet, held in Ute Stadium, Sta-dium, begins at 1 p.m. Competing against Utah will be Idaho State and Utah State. Utah has finished ahead of both teams in previous meets. At the BYU Invitational the Utes scored 57 points to the Aggies 23, both finished behind the Cougars. The Bengals finished behind Weber State and Utah State in a meet held in Logan earlier this spring. Idaho State has never lost a Big Sky track championship, but injuries in-juries have 'hurt the squad this year. Bengal Tom Wharton finished fin-ished fourth in last year's NCAA finals in the 440 yard intermediate intermedi-ate hurdles and will lead the Idaho Ida-ho State contingent, if he is healthy. heal-thy. Other standouts will be Utah State's weight duo Brian Caul-field Caul-field and Mike Mercer, who will be tossing for the 60 foot mark in the shot put. For the Redskins, captain Scott Peterson in the 440 yard dash, Bruce Avery, first place finisher at the BYU Invitational with a time of 9:33.3 in the steeplechase; high jumper Steve Player; javelin javel-in thrower Al Weed and Curt Dudnick in the discus and shot put will be the top point getters. Adding points to Utah's total should be the mile relay, spear throwers Henry Groen and Dave Prouse who along with Weed are fourth, fifth and sixth, with the best throws in the javelin in the WAC, long jumper Dave Walker, Walk-er, and triple jump expert Dave Welsh. USU coach Ralph Maughan said "this meet promises some wire to wire races and the jumpers and throwers will probably reach their best marks of the season." |