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Show Page 6 THE HERALD, Provo, l'tah, Thursday, November . . . 16. 1978 but Utah Game BYU Gridders Relax, 1 ' I ;. is on Their Minds . jmcsmvi ' cv V HELPING HAND. Rhonda Miller glvei husband, Larry, a helping hand with hit coat at they prepare to leave Provo apartment (or Salt Lake and premier A of movie "Take Down" In which Larry played featured role. Larry ii senior linebacker for BYU football team which will play l'tah Saturday. BYU DEFENSIVE END Mat MendenhsU and his father, Paul, a former BYU player, raise quarter horses in Alpine. Here Mat and Paul pose with their best cutting horse, Miss Red Tag, a mare worth around $50,000. Mat will lead BYU defensive unit against arch rival Utah Saturday in Salt Lake City. the wiley trout. Redd Is rugged performer and likes to fish and hunt In time away from books and football. He ties own flies as LOOKING AHEAD to the next fishing season, BYU linebacker Glen Redd spends spare time tying flies and keeping fishing gear in good shape for his battles with hobby. Traditional Clash Holds Must Win Status for BYU By MARION DUNN Herald Sports Editor BYU s WAC championship football team faces a special challenge when it faces traditional rival Utah Saturday afternoon in Rice Stadium. The Cougars have already clinched the conference championship and accepted an invitation to the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 22. They are 2 for the season and W in the WAC. Will they let down Saturday? That's the big question going around town today. After all, the idea of the whole season is winning the league championship. Once that's accomplished can complacency set in? Sure. But BYU has three games to play before the Holiday Bowl and all of them will be tough games. The Cougars can't afford to let down for any of the three because to lose now would take some of the shine off the 1978 WAC championship trophy. Especially a loss to Utah. Should the Cougars lose in Salt Lake it would mean they would finish dead last In the state with losses to both Utah State and Utah. That would take something away from what has already been a great season and what could end by being the best in the schools' history. So, the Cougars shouldn't be taking the Utes lightly. The annual game with Utah is the big one for the Cougars in any case and this week it has extra importance because the Utes will be on an emotional high hoping to beat the Cougars for the first time in 7 years while the Cougars will be up for the game because they now have a championship glow to preserve. If the Cougars are to beat the Utes in this game their defense must be superb and 4 Cougar defenders, all Utah high school products, are determined that 7-- the defensive unit will do its part. Larry Miller, a premier outside linebacker, is a senior and nearing the end of brilliant collegiate career. He is a graduate of Bountiful High and wants to graduate without ever losing to the Utes. Mat Mendenhall is regarded as one of the finest defensive ends in the nation and teams with Ross Varner to give BYU the two best defensive ends in the premier of the movie Tuesday night. Larry had a great game against San Diego State last week and said he is looking ahead to the Ute game. "San Diego was toughest team we've played and Sunday the worst I've ielt physically after a game. We want to beat the Utes and go right through the bowl game. That would be a great way to end a career," he said. Mendenhall is a horse-lovin- g insom- conference. Mat is a junior and a niac who has trouble sleeping before graduate of East High, a school that a game because he gets so keyed up was once a feeding ground for the Utes' thinking about the contest. But once the program. Mat is determined that the game starts, Mat's nervousness disapCougars won't lose this one. pears and he has earned a reputation around the WAC as one of the league's Doug Stromberg is a defensive tackle from Ogden High who has truly excellent defensive stars. Mat was recruited by Utah but never played a key role on the front line this fall. But for a broken leg his senior entertained any ideas of attending any year at Ogden, Doug would have been school other than BYU. Mat and his wearing red instead of blue and white parents live in Alpine and raise quarter now. But it would have been the Big horses. They are all cutters and the Red of Nebraska, not the crimson of Mendenhall stable is one of the best Utah. And Glen Redd is a sophomore linebacker from Ogden who says he has no trouble getting ready for the Utes. Winning the final 4 games this fall he is one means much to Miller. At of the tallest linebackers in college ball and was a basketball player at Bountiful. Larry missed the Tangerine Bowl because of an injury so he wants to take a 10-- record into the Holiday Bowl and then be a member of the first BYU team to win a bowl game. Larry took time off from thinking about the Utes this week to attend the premier of a movie in which he plays a featured role. He stopped by the fieldhouse last year to play a pickup basketball game and was spotted by the director of the film, "Take Down. He was offered a role in the film, accepted and said he would like a movie career. He and his wife, Rhonda, attended the 6--5, 2 around. Stromberg was recruited heavily by Nebraska when he was in high school and planned on enrolling there. Then he broke his leg, was in a cast 6 months, developed a blood clot that hospitalized and almost killed him. Nebraska dropped out of the picture and BYU came in. "I'm really glad to be at BYU. I think it is a great school and a great football team. I couldn't be happier with the way things have worked out," he said. Then he added that the season won't be complete without a win over Utah. Doug likes to hunt and fish and is into Greek mythology for recreation. Redd is also a fisherman and ties his own flies. He said he thinks the game with Utah is the most fun of the year. "The crowd up there hates us and gets on us and that makes it fun. We won't have a let down. We want to beat Utah. RELAXING TO MUSIC. BYU football players Dave McKee, front left; Dennis Webb, with earphones center; and Doug We'll be ready he said. When it comes to fishing, Redd likes to go to Wyoming to get away from the crowds. But when it comes to football he's always in the middle of a crowd, usually with his arms around the ball carrier. Stromberg relax In their apartment by listening to stereo after hard day of studies and practice. The Cougars are preparing for their annual showdown game Utah Redskins Saturday afternoon. with Orem S pikers Claim Region 2 Victory By KAYLENE NELSEN Sundance Will Open Friday - SUNDANCE Sundance Ski Resort will open for skiing Friday at 9 a.m., area manager Brent Beck said today. Beck said crews have been packing the slopes this week when a major storm left 4 feet of light dry snow at tne top of Flathead. Herald Correspondent Thrashing through two matches, Orem spikers came out on top of the first night battle Wednesday in the Region 2 volleyball tournament being held through Saturday at Alta High School. The Tigers face top ranked tonight at 6 p.m. The Orem girls almost dropped the first match when Bingham soared ahead in the third game to 12 points leaving the Tigers at only four tallies. Then the Orem spikers put their determination into the play and handily put 11 points on the board to win the game 2 and take the match. Orem won the first game against Bingham in another 2 meeting but fell back to lose 15-- 8 in the second. Obviously keyed by the first victory, the Tigers took on second place Kearns and won in two games, 8 and Both opponents failed to put up a strong hitting game against the Tigers. The Orem team could then rely on the passing ability of Sherry Ferguson as well as the serving of Keri Waters to score their first two wins in the double elimination tournament. Hitters Linda Erickson and Lukie Cryer both put in some good spike efforts towards those Hil-lcre- st 15-1- "Vj-fc- ITJLCtllUIl -y 3 cw4?f ' 15-1- A Dunn 15-- J Sports Editor 'Poor Old John' a Natural Hall of Famer - SALT LAKE CITY Today is a big day for one of our state's underprivileged minority groups the sports writers. Today we don't have to yell and shout and go into our Rodney Dangerfield act: "We don't get no respect." Today we don't even have to apologize for the misspellings and the poor grammar. Today we can walk with the the gods of the sporting world home run hitters, the sub-pgolfers, the grand slam netters, dunk shot artists, the the halfbacks, the milers, the gold medal gymnasts, the hairless swimmers, the Triple Crown jockeys. Today we are walking in the ar Fame last night, they were in good company. The occasion was the annual Old Time Athletes banquet at the Prudential Plaza here. After the ceremony, a friend came over and asked me if I were jealous because Mooney had made the Hall of Fame? Hey, no way. I worked for John Mooney for 20 years and I have known him for almost another 20. Mooney came to Utah from Iowa and he went to work at the old Salt Lake Telegram when I was just starting high school out in Bingham Canyon. Another member of the Telegram sports staff back then was a man named Tommy Porter who wrote a sun. Because last night one of our own was enshrined in the Utah Sports Hall of Fame. Surprised, huh? Well, it's true. Sit up and take notice all you jocks. There's a sports writer in your Hall of column called "Chief We Pick 'em," devoted to predicting winners of the high school games each week. Before going to the Telegram, Porter had worked as a "hogger" or locomotive engineer in the open pit copper mine, the same job my father had there, so he was a family friend. I can remember the day I stopby the Telegram to visit Porter. He wasn't in but I got my first look at John Mooney. Now I know that I do not have an infallible memory. My mental picture of Mooney that day could be colored by the Mooney I later came to know so well. But the way I remember it, Poor Old John was sitting there dummying a page for next day, typing a story, carrying on a conversation with someone on the phone and a man standing beside him simultaneously, and smoking a big cigar at the same time. Sounds impossible? Believe me, it isn't. Not for the ped Mooney. Anyway, John Mooney has gone about his job for these many Fame. many-facete- Make that OUR Hall of Fame. It's Integrated now. John Mooney, the long-timsports editor of the Salt Lake Tribune who is better known in years e a totally professional Fame. made the historic breakthrough. Yes, sir. When baseball pitcher Pres Fred Sanford, athlete-coac- h Summerhays, and Aggie Elmer "Bear" in way. He's good and he deserves the honor of being the first sports writer named to the Hall of that paper's editorial office as "Poor Old John," is the one who Ward were inducted into the Hall of d JOHN MOONEY But there is another reason why I am glad that Mooney was the first of our group to be so honored. It has nothing to do with writing a column, but it has a in a way it newspaper angle concerns meeting a deadline. It was a long time ago and most of the members of the Tribune sports staff were still young, in our early 30s. One was Lyn "Swede" Larson, a friend of mine from college days at Utah State and a devoted Aggie. He later left the paper to become alumni director at USU and he has an important job there today in student services. But at that time he was just one of the guys on the desk and Mooney, of course, was The Man on the staff. Well, Swede's oldest daughter came down with leukemia and after a long struggle was hospitalized in Salt Lake where it was obvious she wasn't going to make it. Just before the end, Swede and his wife, Phyllis, stayed around the - clock at the hospital, never far from her room. Late one morning, sometime around 3 a.m., Swede and Phyllis left her room for a while. On their return they were far down the hall when they saw John Mooney step out of their daughter's room, quietly close the door and then sneak away in the opposite direction. Swede and Phyllis looked at each other, went to the room and walked in. There on the bed beside their sleeping daughter, almost in her arms, was a huge doll Mooney had placed there. John Mooney in the Hall of Fame? Of course! 15-- "We were doing everything well," the summation of Tiger coach Merrilee Kupfer. "We just didn't have that many mistakes. It was almost perfect play." was The Tigers, who byed in region play last week, have been working on their serving the last two weeks and "have certainly come a long ways," Mrs. Kupfer said. "They've been able to apply what they learned." Mrs. Kupfer also pointed to the fun aspect of volleyball play as being an important element in the Wednesday night wins. "When they are having fun and enjoying the game then the girls can usually win. And it helps when you're ahead because you are more relaxed and can do a better job than when you're behind and tense." When the Orem spikers meet tonight, the emphasis will be on blocking. The Salt Lake team, unbeaten in region play this year, has tall girls and good hitters, explained Mrs. Kupfer, but with some tough blocking and return hitting of their own the Orem six plan to give the Hillcrest team their first loss. "I really think we can," the Tiger coach announced wins. Black Hawks Defeat Golden Eagles, By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Writer - SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake Golden Eagles will start a e road trip in Oklahoma City Saturday night and they face the unenviable task of trying to break a losing streak against the Stars, who are leading the Central Hockey League by six points. two-gam- e And the second place Eagles will face the Stars again Sunday, the defending champion Fort Worth Texans on Nov. 22, Dallas on Nov. 24, Fort Worth again on Nov. 25, and Kansas City on Nov. 26 before returning to the Salt Palace, where they will play Oklahoma City on Nov. 29. "It looks like a tough road trip for you," a reporter remarked to Coach Jack Evans in the Eagles' dressing room only moments after the Dallas Black Hawks had handed the Big Birds, a defeat before 3563 fans in the Salt 2 Palace. "Not if we win," snapped the Evans, who left little doubt in anybody's mind that he expected his team to do just that win. On the other side of the Salt Palace, the Hawks were enjoying their victory! After all this was the fourth triumph of the season for the Dallas club, and enabled them to move into tie for fourth place with Fort Wcrth. A smiling Larry "Bones" Hendrick, who won top star of the game honors d 4-- 2 for his great goaltending job, was particularly enthusiastic about the win. "We're a heckuva lot better hockey team than our record so far would indicate,'' declared Hendrick, a former "We've lost nine Eagle games so far this season, but seven of the defeats have been by only one r. goal." Hendrick had contributed mightily to Wednesday night win, coming up with 31 saves for the tilt, several of them bordering on the sensational side, especially in the last half the second period and in the third session when the Big Birds put on a furious charge in an attempt to overcome Dallas leads of and Hendrick received some great defensive support from Jeff Bandura, who once in the first period flipped the pick uut of the danger zone after it trickled behind the Dallas goalie and came within a fraction of an inch of crossing the goal line. Bandura also cleared the puck from in front of the Salt Lake net on two or three other occasions. Dallas goals were scored by Bob Manno in the first period, by Bill Derlago and Ron Carter in the second, and by Steve Clippingdale in the third. Clippingdale's goal at 15:20 of the third period practically iced the game for the Hawks. Floyd Thomson scored both of Salt Lake's goals, the first red lamp coming at 11:25 of the second period and thf second at 2:18 of the third period. all-o- 0 |
