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Show The Utah Daily Chronicle, Monday, March J, 19S6 Page Seven RunnirT Utes off to Laramie after smashing CSU n WAC tournament from page six Ram scoring advantage down the last five minutes post-seaso- against the Ute reserves couldn't shake the Utah coach. Stroman ended up leading the Utes in scoring Saturday, hitting a game high 24 points. Hendrix had 16 and Upshaw added 16 points and 10 assists- Then all that was left for the Utes Saturday was to cut down the nets at each end of the floor or at least one of them, on the arena's west end. That's where a collection of Utes waved away a ladder at the end of the game and hoisted each other, one by one, up to snip the silk down, a loop at a time. Archibald claimed THURSDAY'S GAMES -- No. 1 FRIDAY Wyoming (9 pm) SATURDAY Air Force or Hawaii No. 4 BYU (6:30 p.m.) (9:30 pm) he didn't join in because he was watching happily from the sidelines and "making travel plans." That's the next order of business, you'll remember. The trip to Laramie. One of the WACs unfriendliest cities (the Cowboys are 7-- 1 in conference action at home), the Utes were already beaten there once this season by Wyoming in a 94-7- 9 loss Jan. 18. "I definitely didn't want to go to Laramie," Stroman said. "For us, it's going to be tough it's the hardest place (in the WAC) to play. But regardless of where it is, we have to go there and play like we have No. 5 New Mexico No. 3 Utah (12:30 p.m.) No. (7 pm) 6 San Diego State No. 2 UTEP (3 p.m.) been at home." "Our goal all along was to be champs," said Upshaw, who sparked the Utes to their 1 stretch record since he's been the starting point guard. "We were able to put it together when it counted the most. It's the greatest satisfaction I've had in a while." (7 p.m.) 8-- No. 7 Colorado State No. 3 ASU deals Ute gymnasts st loss of season 11 Special to the Chronicle ed 1. five-tim- TEMPE, Ariz. Coach Greg Marsdcn's premonition proved accurate. But then again, anyone could have predicted the outcome of Friday's gymnastics meet between Arizona State and Utah. For the seventh straight season, the Sun Devils took advantage of their homecourt the University Activity Center to knock off the Lady Utes. The 186.95-185.0- 0 setback was Utah's first loss since Jan. 26, 1985. The winner of that outing? Arizona State, and of course, in Tcmpc. Jackie Brummcr captured three events, plus the with a nation's best score of 38.20, to lead the all-arou- nd . SPORTSCAN .the Lady Ute swimming team who placed second in the backstroke. In all, 11 Ut. Qualified to more than a year compete in the meet-four ago. . . . the Ute hockey club skated to one win and one tie over the weekend. Friday night in the Salt Palace, the Utes and the University of Colorado tied 4-- 4. Kirk Gilger scored a hat trick for Utah in that contest. Then on Saturday afternoon the all-aroun- 37.00. Ledcrcr scored a 9.4 in the vault and a 9.35 in the uneven bars. Hermann tied Lederer's mark in the vault, then picked up a 9.4 in the uneven bars. Lisa Mitzel placed in two events. The Ute senior had a 9.4 on the balance beam, as did teammate Sandy Sobotka. Mitzel also recorded a 9.45 on the floor exercise. Hilarie Portcll and Wendy Whiting had 9.25s in the uneven bars and Lisa McVav scored a 9.35 in the floor exercise. Marsden entered the meet knowing it would be tough to overcome the host Sun Devils. And his concern was legitimate as ASU completely dominated the meet. Brummer turned in the most impressive performance by a collegiate gymnast this season, scoring at least a 9.6 in three events. senior captured the vault The with a 9.65 and the uneven bars and balance beam with a All-Ameri- same two teams met again, This time in the Laramie. Some of the highlights for Utah included its 200-yafreestyle relay team (consisting of Darcy DeRoncher, Becky Cassel, Wendy Rex and Holly Whear), which placed third, and freshman Holly Whear, rd se all-arou- nd coaches polls. and now await a regular season possible bid to the National Collegiate Hockey Championships in Tucson, Ariz., March 100-ya- floor-exerci- 5-- Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center. The Utes won that game 2 on Joel Burns' rd title with a 9.55. Zeis was also the runner-u- p in the battle with a 37.75. was Lynnc Ledcrcr, who Utah's top sculpted a 37.15. Ute Tina Hermann was third with a e season Saturday by finished the 1985-8- 6 placing fifth place in the High Country Athletic Conference Championship in pair of 9.6s. Teammate Lisa Zeis collected the Sun Devils, who are 12-The defending national champs, who play host to Utah State Tuesday night in the Special Events Center, are 1 and face the likelihood of falling out of the No. 1 spot. Utah has held that position in the last 41 third-rank- 3-- game winning goal. The Utes finished the 7-8- 13-1- . . -1 6. .Utah's men's tennis team was in Albuquerque this weekend for the Lobo Invitational which ran through Sunday. The Utes, led by Andy Olyphant, the 12th ranked player in the nation, won both of their matches Saturday. Utah defeated Colorado 2, as they won all six singles matches and one of three in doubles play. Later the Utes beat Arizona 4. In that contest the Utes won five of the six singles events, but they were unable to win any of the three doubles matches. 7-- 5-- after sweeping weekend pair Special to the Chronicle loss at New Mexico Saturday, vaulted LAS CRUCES, N.M. The Lady Utes did something Saturday afternoon that no other High Country Athletic Conference team has been able to do all season. Six HCAC squads had traveled to Las Cruces to play New Mexico State and six had come away empty handed. The seventh, and final, HCAC team to make the trip was the University of Utah. But this time around the visiting team came up with a thrilling 92-8- 8 overtime victory. The win, combined with a BYU the Utes into sole poscssion of the conference lead going into the final week of play. Utah is now 1 in the HCAC and 19-- 7 overall. The Roadrunncrs fall into third place in the conference at 3, 9-- 7-- Mila Rogers had an outstanding performance for the Utes as she scored a 31 points. Freshman guard Gina Butters scored 14, while center game-hig- h Donna Holzwarth and guard Trudy Sanderson netted 11 and 10 points, respectively. 11 11 ATTENTION SOPHOMORES REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE Are you interested in a career in one of these fields? SHIPS MARINE CORPS AVIATION (Pilot or Flight Officer) NUCLEAR POWER U The Navy ROTC Unit at the University of Utah is now accepting applications for its two year program. 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