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Show - Page D6 i THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, r . Friday, February "T7 f p ir f A 5, 1993 "JTv4 r cagers on road UVCC i If V at Eastern Utah, CNCC 5 - H -- 'x - f , rJ fJ '' (i I I 1 r 81-7- 67-6- 5-- sixth-plac- wins. Eastern Utah currently sits 7-- (0-1- 1) X V 3, 3. 19-- fourth in the conference with a 6-- 5 record and a 16-- 7 mark overall, while Colorado Northwestern is withoverall and winless UVCC in the conference. Friday, in Price against the Golden tips-o- ff Eagles. It will be the third meeting this season. The two teams split in the prior two contests, both in Orem. UVCC won the first mat fX J ... i fly A, chup in the championship game of the Rotary Classic and CEU took the second, a conferFrom Price, the ence game, Wolverines move on to Rangely, Colo, where they will encounter the winless Spartans on Saturday. Both games wiU begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live on KFMY 960 AM Radio. The UVCC women's team will 3 take its record on the road against the same two schools, and will play in the preliminary game each night at 5:30. The Wolverines are tied for the conference lead with a 10-- 1 mark, and will take over sole possession of the top spot if they can get two wins. Ricks plays only one College, also 10-game this week, on the road at 5 North Idaho. Utah Valley CommuOREM weeknity college will spend the with games end away from home, against the College of Eastern Utah and Colorado Northwestern Community College. The Wolverines are 6 in conference play and e can improve their weekend two with standing greatly 1, 6-- Financial planners certain Olympics will make money must spend more on technology. And the decision by state offinot to expand the Georgia cials T cost of playATLANTA World Congress Center means ing host to the 1996 Summer ACOG must now find new sites for are so but is Olympics going up and team handball the badminton the expected revenues. will add to which The Atlanta Committee for the competition, said. he costs, Olympic Games this week said its Revenue projections are up berevised budget shows it will take cause corporate sponsorships and $1.47 billion to put on the Atlanta. sales now are expected to ticket Games. ACOG said it expects to in more money than prebring take in $1.59 billion. viously projected, ACOG presithe on see can we "As far as dent Billy Payne said. financial planning horizon, we're still operating on a steady course," While ACOG officials have A.D. Frazier, ACOG's chief operlanded only four of as many as 12 ating officer, said at a news conferanticipated sponsorships, they ence. "We are quite optimistic the blamed complex negotiations rathoutcome will be positive financialer than any reluctance on the part ly at the end, and we're operating of buyers. Each of the four sponon that assumption. " sorships is worth $40 million. ACOG earlier had said the '96 "The pacing of it, the impleGames would cost $1.38 billion mentation of successfully concludand bring in $1.52 billion. The is a longer ing negotiations, increase in expected expenses amounts to 8 percent, while process than we had originally ansaid Bob Holder, projected revenues are up 4.8 per- ticipated," ACOG cent, Frazier said. ACOG plans to put $100 million Payne said ACOG lost a potential source of revenue when it deof the projected surplus in contincided last week to drop its bid to gency, he said. The increase in projected costs include golf in the 1996 Games. includes changes to the budget The proposal had drawn opposibased on lessons learned by obtion from those against adding serving the 1992 Summer Games more sports to the Olympics and in Barcelona, Frazier said. Among critics of the proposed site, the other things, ACOG realized it Augusta National Golf Club. By MARC RICE AP Business Writer - Photo courtesy of Pat Robins Payson's Nate Meek, the Region 8 champion, has an unidentified foe in serious trouble during a match earlier this year. ayson's Meek anything but on mat as ne see ks to help Iions win 3A tstie By JAMES AHLSTROM Herald Correspondent Meek - a fitting PAYSON on name for the senior stand-othe third-ranke- d Payson wrestling - ut team. His coaches and others who know Nate Meek, Payson's star, would add classy, smart, quick learner and good attitude to the tion, though. " Anything you teach him, he picks up on," said Payson head coach Chris Brown recently. He has picked up enough in four years of wrestling to finish second in state last year and win his second Region 8 title this year. In fact, Meek even picks up on things you don't necessarily intend to teach him. Brown said. . Brown was "goofing around" with all of Payson's wrestlers one day at practice when he showed them what a leg cradle, was. Meek liked what he saw and started using the move against his opponents. 145-pou- hard-workin- g, . Now it's his trademark. Brown said he wasn't trying to teach Meek how to do the leg cradle, though. Very few wrestlers at any level can successfully utilize the leg cradle, and so it's crazy to even think about teaching it, he said. "He just picked it up on his own after he saw me do it once, and now he uses it (successfully) '' against quality opponents. Something else Meek has learned, which coaches can't realan ly teach, is the team attitude attitude Payson's coaches hope will help propel the team to a state championship this weekend at the Salt Palace. Meek isn't comfortable talking about individual performances at the state tournament and quick to point out that wrestling is "not an individual wrestler; we're a team. ... If we take state, it will be as a team." Meek takes the team attitude so seriously that sometimes he tends to shy away from any individual dents because the rewards can glamor and spotlight. "I can't ever get him to look at seem few compared to the amount the camera (to get a good action of time and effort it takes to reach shot during a match)," said Pat the point of competing successful- Robins, assistant coach and team iy. photographer. Meek hopes that one of the few Brown says he's glad Meek is rewards will be winning the state able to keep the team perspective. title as a team. With a couple of colleges showing Unless an upset occurs, Meek interest at the prospect or having e state Meek on their team, Brown says will likely face from Jenkins Meek has a great future. "His bigchampion Bobby gest challenge will be to handle all Uintah in the state tournament for the success that is going to come the championship in the class. his way." And don't worry about wrestling affecting Meek's scholastic opportunities, his 3.85 grade point average is evidence that he knows how to cradle the books, too. Meek says it hasn't been easy to reach his current level of performance. "I've had low times when my heart wasn't into it during practice sometimes." two-tim- 145-pou- THIS SEASON, DON'T GET STUCK DRIVING ANY OTHER LUXURY COUPE. Brown said he realizes wrestling can be tough on high school stu College basketball suffering from poor free throw epidemic By PERRY A. FARRELL r Newspapers Knight-Ridde- Clank! The sound of missed free throws is becoming more common in college basketball. All of those missed attempts in Tuesday night's State game were part of a national pattern in which players are shooting blank after blank after Michigan-Michiga- n blank. shooting in major Free-thro- colleges has reached its lowest point in 35 years, reflecting an annual decline since 1989. If the men continue at their current rate it would be making 66.8 percent the biggest drop ever, down from 68. 1. The plague isn't confined to men's basketball, either. After remaining stable the past four seashootsons, women's ing has dipped from 67.3 to 65.5 percent this season. "Why it would be down nationally kind of boggles my mind," Michigan State coach Jud Heath-cot- e said. "It defies the percentthat if kids are ages we go by better shooters, why aren't they better shooters?" Boston College coach Jim O'Brien has one explanation: "I just don't think kids concentrate and spend enough time even thinking about shooting." Boston College is shooting 75.3 percent, best in the Big East. Michigan State made only 43.5 loss to Michipercent in its The 10 of convened Spartans gan. 23. "Horrendous," MSU guard Shawn Respcrt said. "Maybe I can disguise myself like everybody on the team and shoot all the free one-seaso- n free-thro- w free-thro- w free-thro- w 73-6- 9 throws." That's because Respcrt leads the Big Ten in accuracy, free-thro- w Clark has another explanation making 90 percent The rest of his team is shooting for the decline: With the game 54.2 percent. played at a faster pace, players aren't slowing themselves at the the all said "It's between ears," line. center Mike Peplowski, who went that with the more upthink "I against Michigan. tempo game, with the emphasis on Michigan converted 61.5 perof its attempts pressure, it's hard for a kid to mencent that's but tally slow down, go to the line and hardly respectTuesday, make a free throw," Clark said. able. "We practice them, but then "Historically, some pressure teams don't shoot you've got to have confidence that and well. free make throws said to them," Syracuse and you're going that Steve coach Georgetown play Fisher, way, and Michigan whose team is shooting 64.4 perthey're not usually great cent for the season. shooting teams." Boston College's O'Brien disa"We're shooting pretty good free throws. Going into the Michigrees. "Making free throws and shootgan State game we were shooting ' over 70 percent from the free ing free throws is just being a menthrow line in the Big Ten. That's tally tough kid and blocking out an improvement for us." anything else that could conceivashooting nationally bly creep into your mind," he improved gradually from 1948, said. Heathcote says it's important for the first season the NCAA kept the best shooters to get fouled. until 1979. statistics, College teams made 59.8 percent in 1948, "I still remember when we led 69.7 percent in 1979. nation in the shooting in accuracy fluctuated within a narhad we but Scott Skiles and 1986, it this when until row range season, Johnson getting the majoriDarryl dropped precipitously. Clark ty of our free throws," Heathcote coach I i I free-thro- w (16-for-2- 6) free-thro- w Free-thro- w Free-thro- w free-thro- Tulane blames the Perry drop-of- on fewer and f w said. Cadillac Eldorado is coupe in its class with front-whe- EraiurvTvM el Dr. drive and a patented Traction Control traction control SID NA BrakeThrottle "I always say if we could have NCAA rules. Teams began pracShawn Respert shoot all of our free tice Nov. instead of Oct. 15 this throws and not Eric Snow, you're season. going to have a good "Because practice was cut back shooting percentage." by two weeks, I think a lot of But guards usually are better coaches felt rushed to get in their shooters than inside offenses and defenses," Clark which brings us to another said. "The last thing you deal with players, the about decline. 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