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Show Clinch ougars Brigham Young University won the northern division title of the Western Athletic Conference baseball race yesterday in cold Laramie, Wyoming, with a sweep of a pair of night coach Glen Tuckett immediately following the title winning game and coach saM, "We are very happy with the victory. Now we want the WAC title to go along with it." games The Cougars scored six runs in the second inning of the final game that spurred them to the victory. A triple by Richard Fairbanks, a single by Mike Knosp, a walk to Dick Clark, a single by Steve Davis, and a sacrifice fly by Larry Romney were tts big blows in that inning. 13-- The 0 and 10-- an early to the morning heart-breakPokes 2 but came back to clinch a division tie with a l victory and then clinched the win title outright with the in the final of the three game lost Cougars 3-- 13-f- series. The Cougars thus finished con- ference play with a split with the University of Utah and five wins against one loss in the Wyoming series, and will play the winner of the southern di--; vision of the conference May imide-the-pa- at the BYU baseball diamond to determine the winner of the Western Athletic Conference. The Cougar players mobbed 24-2- 5 vision Ddse The first game was originally scheduled for Friday night, but near freezing temperatures and a 40 mile per hour wind forced delay until Saturday morning. In that morning game the Cougars were all fumbles in the Cowboys could catch the Cougars partially under the lights, BYU galloped to a 13--0 victory on 13 hits. Brad Meyring hurled the shutout for the Cougars as he allowed only three Wyoming hits and struck out seven batters in the nine inning game. The victory clinched a tie for the title for BYU in the northern division of the Western Athletic Conference. Doug Howard and Gary Pul-lin- s were the big hitters for the Cougars. Howard went three for four at the plate including a home run that started off a five run second inning and a triple. Pullins went three for five, two of them triples. Lee Berge was also strong in the hitting department with a triple and a single. Larry Romney hit a home run for the Cougars and Richard Fairbanks clouted a triple. Larry Romney hit, an home run in the sixth inning with one aboard to provide the Cougars with another, key inning. Romney also homered in the second game of the day to give him two round trippers for his day's work. In the second game of the day, delayed until 5 p.m. so rk - 9 5 hit adaway an Two of the vantage to lose Wyoming runs were scored on errors and the other Wyoming run was scored on a BYU men- bobbling 11-- 3-- tal error. Wyoming scored two in the fifth inning. With runners on first and third a sacrifice bunt resulted in an out when catcher Pal Eldredge fielded the ball, held the runner and fired to first. However, no one covered home after the tlirow and Tom Michel scored from third on the mental miscue by BYU. Latar in the inning Steve Davis bobbled a grounder to shortstop and Gary Garrison came home. The game was tied going into the final inning when the Pokes pushed across another unearned run to win the game. Tom Michel singled and went to second on a sacrifice and advanced to third on a passed ball. He scored on a squeeze play when Eldredge dropped the ball after making the tag at the plate. BYU scored one in the third 3- B- 020-- 13 HR 2, Howard, Fair- - Howard, Romney, BYU. 3rd Game: BYU 062 002 0- -10 5 1 012 200 0 Wyoming 5 10 3 Ken Crosby Winning pitcher (5-- 2 Losing pitcher 2B-St- earn, r. Wyo. BYU. Garrison, Wyo. BYU. HR-Ro- SO-CroBB-Cr- 12. sbv, 3. osby ab r h rbi BYU Davis Pullins Romney 13 0 000 000 000 0 3 2 Wyoming Brad MeyWinning pitcher ring. Losing pitcher Pullins banks, Berge, BYU. inning when Steve Dav is doubled and Gary Pullins singled him home, and scored one more in the seventh inning when losing pitcher Richard Zinninger trippled and scored on a single by Steve Davis. Second game: 050 222 BYU III W. 2B-Mi- chel, Sterling. 13 1 0 1 Howard 5 4 4 4 Fairbanks 4 0 Knosp 4 4 0 1 0 0 Berge 2 0 2 0 0 10 Eldredge 4 0 0 0 Zinniger 4 110 Totals 4 A$i&H SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1968 Varsity Edges Alumni in 14-1- 3 Grid Game, Spring Brigham Young University Varsity eked out a 3 d victory over a hard fighting Alumni aggregation Saturday night in BYU Stadium to climax spring football drills for Coach Tommy Hudspeth's grid-der- s. The 14-1- rain-soake- An Alumni attempt to score a two point conversion failed and provided to be the difference in the ball game. Thus Coach Hudspeth preserves his undefeated record against Alumni squads, but it was a slim win and took a vital pass interception by Larry Echohawk in the final minute to preserve Varsity struck in the with a 44 yard from Marc Lyons to Horpass Smith ace carrying to the two line to set up a line yard for the score Lyons plunge by with 8.33 remaining. Steve Christensen booted the PAT to give the Varsity a 0 advantage. The Alums managed to tie the score when Virgil Carter dropped a long bomb into the arms of Bruce Smith for a gain to the five yard line. Smith was covered closely by two defenders as he tightrope walked the sideline, but he was able to make a brilliant catch to put the Alumni The first quarter 7-- rd the victory. Both teams scored the first time in the game in the same manner. The quarterbacks lug- in scoring position. Two plays later Virgil Carter ged the leather across paydirt after setting up the TDs on kept the ball after a fake into the line and scooted off left long pass plays. Cougars Finish 2nd at Pikes Peak COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Dear, matched par on the final John Mahaffey mas- round. (UPI) tered the Broadmoor Golf Club Grouped with Barbarossa at course and freezing tempera- 227 was teammate Hal Undertures Saturday for a favorwood, the 73 and led Houston to the ite, and Brigham Young's John Golf Pikes Peak Intercollegiate Miller and Dan Hawkin. The Tournament championship. other Houston player, Dave Mahaffey started the third and Shuster, finished with a 230. final round Saturday four Finishing five strokes back at strokes back from teammate 231 were Terry Dear and Lane Bob Barbarossa, the second round leader, but passed him as Bennett of Brigham Young. ABarbarossa skied to a 78. Ma- lbert Lovato of New Mexico; Bill Hutchinson, New Mexico State, haffey carded a 226 total for and Chris Scena, Colorado, were while Barbathe three rounds, rossa was grouped with four others at 227. Houston won the team trophy with a team total of 910, 14 strokes better than defending champion Brigham Young University. New Mexico finished third with 937. The final round of the tournament was played in weather with wind and fog. Only one player, New Mexico's Terry at 232. Oklahoma St. finished fourth in the team race with a 944 total, followed by Colorado at 948, Air Force Academy 949, New Mexico State 952, Arizona 938, Nebraska 969, Wyoming 981, Kansas State 983, Utah 984, Utah State 991, Colorado College Denver 1,001, Eastern New Mexico 1,002 and Colorado St. 9, University 1,034. tackle for a five yard touch- down run. Dennis Patera kicked the extra point twice, after the first one was nullified for a back-fiel- d in motion penalty. Odle Plays Defense A key turning point in the first half was a pass interception by Phil Odle. Odle, the great offensive performer for three years as a receiver for BYU, played defense for the Alums and turned in just as spectacular a performance as he was accustomed to in the offensive lineup. Howe Simonini Michel Garrison Feiers MacDonald key on the clock. The drive covered 47 yards in less than a minute and included a nine yard pass to Carl Bowers, a 24 yard pass to Kip Jackson, a ten yard pass to John Peterson. The Alum scored their sec ond touchdown with 6:32 re maining in the game with Virgil Carter going in from Jie four yard line. He faded back to pass, couldn't find a receiver, was under strong defensive pressure, and so he chose to run. He hit the end zone flag at the goal line as he scored the TD. Phil Odle came up with his third interception of the night on his own 49 yard line to start Silvester Twirls Discus 204 Feet at Coast Relays behind Silvester throw of By JOE SARGIS UPI Sports Writer Calif. FRESNO, (UPI 195-1- 0. Way Silvester and Ron Whitney victories scored impressive Saturday afternoon at the West Coast Relays', setting the stage for a record assault during the evening portion of the two-da-y track and field carnival Silvester, a member of the 1964 Olympic team, won the discus with a throw of 204 feet 9 inches, breaking his own Relays set only last record of 201-year. Al Oerter, a veteran Olympian bidding for a fourth straight berth, finish second 2 2, with a best - 440-yar- d intermediate hurdles title in 50.7 seconds. Tom Wyatt finished second in 51.5 and was third in :52.0. Two other events completed the afternoon program, the 5,000 Paddy McCrary meter run and the javelin. Jerry Jobski of Arizona State U. took the gruelling run in 14 minutes 23.6 seconds. Scott Bringhurst of Utah was second in 14:25.1, and John Baker of the Athens Track Club wai third in 14:32.8. 5,000-met- 10 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 3 5 0 Totals Score by Innings: 000 020 001- -3 5 1 Wyoming BYU 001 000 001- -2 11 2 Jim Winning Pitcher Losing pitcher Rich- Mac-Donal- d; ard Zinniger Pullins, 2B-D- avis. BYU. 3B-Ho-ward, Zinniger, EYU. SO MacDonald BB 5,Zinniger 4. 4, MacDonald 0. Zinniger J v drive for the the touchdown Alumni. A crucial play in the touch down drive was a fourth and ten pass play from Virgil Car ter to Lloyd Jacoteen to the 15 yard line. A 15 yard penalty set them back to the 30 yard line and then Phil Odle entered the game for the first time on of fense and was used as a decoy to enable Carter to make s good gain on the ground to set up the touchdown play that fol lowed. The Alumni not content with a sure tie on the booting of Dennis Patera, tried a razzle-dazztwo point conversion which failed and eventually proved the one point difference in the contest. Most of the excitement was generated in the second half. A key turning point in the final quarter was a vital pass interception by Larry Echo-haw- k for the Varsity on the Alumni one yard line with 1.23 remaining pn the clock. The Alumni team was threatening to score and had possession of the ball on the ten yard line after a sustained drive highlighted by short passes by Carter. Echohawk's timely theft pre served the contest for the Varsity. VIRGIL CARTER, now with the Chicago Bears, gets off long pass over the outstretched arms of BYU Varsity de-fensive end Jeff Slipp. Slipp played an outstanding game on defense for the Varsity. The game climaxed spring grid- - iron drills for the BYU varsity and the victory for the Varsity maintained Coach Hudspeth's perfect record against Alumni teams, IJIWI..MillMlUIIM,LUfllllllJiU t,' :;.; Q o M Q i . m 1 ! f Jinfa Iff 0 5 o BYU Bests Utah 9-- 1 PAUL SUTORIOUS, fine BYU Varsity alumni defensive back, leaps high in the air to intercept a Virgil Carter pass to cut an Alumni threat off. The pass was intended for Lloyd Jacobsen (78), but Sutorious plucked it out of the air. In Tennis The toss came on the heels of an interception by Phil Odle who returned it to the Varsity 35 yard line to put the Alumni in scoring position. Brigham Young University took eight out of nine matches here Friday to down the University of Utah 1 in Western Athletic Conference tennis. The Ules' only victory in the match came in the number three doubles. In that match Scott Bennion and Paul Hoff man teamed up to defeat John Fort and Trane of the Cou i 8-- gars. In the feature match of the day Larry Hall of BYU beat the Utes' number one singles player Dale Fritz and 7-- 5 ?1 6--2. Singles No. Hall, BYU, def. 2. Dale Frila, Utah, 5 Keith Nielsen, BYU, Jobski is a real endurance No. 2 man. He once ran seven two-- def. Laury Hammel, mile races in a v No. 3 David George, BYU, period clocking 8:52.2 for his best and def. Mike Waldram, 9:00.2 in his slowest race. No. Fort, BYU, def. Tom Colby of Stanford took Scott Bennion, the javelin with a best throw of No. 5 Chuck Tate, BYU, 258-- 4 with Jim Stevenson def. Jim Foulger, second at 258-2- , and John Burns No. Eric Baer, BYU, def. third at 250-Carl Hoffman, Ralph Boston, the Doubles record holder in the long jump, No. 1 Nielsen-Bae- r, BYU, was a late scratch from his def. specialty because of a ' leg No. 2 BYU, injury. Paul Wilson of Southern def. Folger41ammel, 4, California, the world pole vault Bennion-Hoffmarecord noider, also failed to N. 3 make an appearance, because Utah, def Forte-Tran- e, BYU, of a pulled leg muscle. Larry 7-- - 6-- 6-- 1, Whitney, the 1967 Pan American Games champion, took the 10 0 ldJMh &QL xV. le interception broke up a serious Varsity offensive threat as he plucked the pig skin from the air on his own five yard line and scampered into the clear with just 90 yards of real estate between him and the goal, and that proved too much. After lugging it for 65 yards to the Varsity 35 yard line Odle tripped on the turf and fell tc the ground. The Varsity immediately killed the Alumni chance as Paul Sutorious plucked off a Virgil Carter aerial. When it look like both teams were going to settle for a 7 halftime tie quarterback Marc Lyons ignited another Varsity offensive spurt that resulted in a surprising touchdown pass from the four yard line to Wes Homolik with no time showing His 3 3 4 2 2 4 3 3 3 Stearns 10 0 0 r hrbi ab Wyoming Befus Spoerer 2 2 11 37 v PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH 1 6-- 9-- ( 6--3. C3 4-- John 6-- - 2 6--1. 3-- tt 10-- 6-- ( i 6-- 6-- - Fritz-Waldra- 6-- 6-- Hall-Georg- e, 6-- 7-- n, BEN LAVERTY carries the ball for the Alumni for short yardage as two BYU defensive stars close in for the tackle. An unidentified Cougar is making the initial contact, with Craig Boaich (33) approaching to add the finishing 3 in a The Alumni lost the contest (Photos by Phil Shurtleff, Herald Photographer) 14-1- rain-drench- touches, contest. i rum mi i.wtuifcn ,Tfc- - tijiimi if ir in, ! w.wi riiwm nmniimM iji in i in m mi tmtm m m an mum ir 11 - -JM- --JJ"'' i m ,iW nm |