Show Student Life Wednesday November 30 1977 Page 13 Wrestling season Ufags breeze by Rams tonight opens but experienced wrestling team ojiens their rah State's young with a dual match against an excellent Nevada-Ii- s season r'8 November 30 in I as Vegas then travels on Wednesday Veeas team -- participate in the Arizona Invitational the most wrestling tournament in the country 10US back seven lettermen from last year's roach Bob Carlson welcomes new faces expected to step in fill vacancies left m team and some 158 Mark Harris 167 John Wilson returnees are Bob Erickson toTucson to i Top and Steve Kyriopoulos are nckson and Wilson HW'T i seniors with three years of varsity nencebehmd them Erickson who has never lost a dual match at Utah State is expected to place high in the nationals this last vear Wilson is actually back at Utah season He finished eighth after fifth his sitting out a year in a red shirt situation for year Sate will be a plus for him and the maturity Carlson Harris probably has the best shot of any win a national title Only a junior his weight the past summer has made him considerably quicker TOgram during andmuch stronger his only difficulty will be avoiding the injuries that out of the nationals last year Kyriopoulos in the past two Sept him to start out slow but finish seasons at Utah State has had a tendency he has been on a strenuous running program to get in strong This fall to season's beginning better shape and be more consistant of sophomores James Dreyer 190 and Big things are expected Steve Weight (134) Dreyer was up and down last year and really into the type of wrestler he is capable of being never developed last year with a Weight was the top freshman wrestler record To fill the void at 118 Carlson signed Tracy Moore the Iowa 2A Roland-Stor- y High in Story City Iowa Another Iowan diampion from slated to start at 177 Greg Chapman Chapman was 28-- 0 last year and was state champion at his weight The most troublesome weight Carlson has had to fill during the past three seasons was at 150 Marty Bench from Arvada Colorado is expected to fill that void the next four years last year was the first year that Nevada-l- s Vegas competed in N'CAA wrestling and compiled a 19--2 dual mark including a 7 victory over Utah State Coach lennis Frinfrock has had a very good recruiting year and may have one of the strongest teams in the West Leading the squad are Pete Durazo (134) the Most Valuable Wrestler last year and Car! Blalark (118) who was voted the most improved wrestler at the season's end Although losing seven lettermen due to an array of reasons Fraforck feels that his new recruits may step in and be strong His biggest signee was Anthony Salazar a four-tim- e Nevada AAA Champion from Basic High He will wrestle at either 158 or 167 Joining Salazar will be John Everett 126) from Eldorado High was 3M his senior year Out of the JC ranks comes Brad Stohr 2 265 at heavyweight from Sumner Washington where he won two Washington State titles On December 13 the Aggies will be in the Arizona Invitational in Tucson Last year they finished tenth and hope to probably finish higher this season Individually last vear Erickson placed third and to According to actually mt is 26-1- ( 6-- Hams was fourth Defending champion with powerful Oklahoma They look to repeat Luis Obispo coming from Cal Poly-Sa- n Oregon State is tough competition tnzona State BYU and Gymnastics for those of you who had the opportunity to see the gvmnastics routines in the last Olympics at to miss weal “ you don't want Women’s Exhibition Wednesday at f! “Spectrum For Team p m in this show only SU students will be charged cents and faculty and gener-lw- f 7 00 chared 1 DO from the exhibition will RhMnCefleteam’stnp tothe p Open in Decern- - rateam wlU demonstrate four £P‘C events: floor exercises JSf- uneven bars Parallel bars Ray COni haS the gymnastics nationally rated 5aegular ncludmg Cue lo i he Amencdn Cancel Sx iet v t Ame ncan Cance r Soci ety tonight judges who will indicate scores on each performance Corn said "We want to give the fans an opportunity to see the foundation of the program we are develoing at USU” On the surface it is not so impressive that the Aggies beat Colorado State 6 rather the unusual way they did it A swift little passing guard led I SU scorers A 8 highseoring center took to passing the ball and had four assists as many as the whole CSU team A reserve forward if you can call him that held last year's WAC scoring leader to four points and was selected by Coach Dutch Belnap as the Play er of the Game And two freshmen forwards scored 21 points between them It was truly a balanced team performance as USU took the lead early in the first half and 4 halftime glided to a casual edge Except for Mike Santos' occasional stroll to the bench for a toweling and a chat with the boys USU never really broke a sweat in what was billed as a tight game candidate Santos 83-6- 6-- 38-2- attracted a CSU crowd and didn't score as much as is expected from last season's leading scorer but his presence was enough After he slammed a couple of dunks to christen the new season the CSU defense became preoccupied with guarding him and eventually was burned by USU's depth Five players scored m double figures Oscar Williams 15 Santos 14 Keith McDonald 13 and Preston Bailess and Brian Jackson 12 With USU's depth the term starter has become a dubious honor So competitive is the USU talent that it has become an almost arbitrary formality that puts capable play ers on the bench — for a while All but three players saw considerable action and they shot an amazing 67 percent from the floor — the third highest in USU history The Aggies’ 23 assists are indicative of their good shot selection Bailess who has already started 35 of his 51 collegiate games in his two years at USU was one of those capable players slated to sit on the bench at the opening tipoff But sophomore Dean Hunger caught an elbow in practice which caused blurred vision and g there was Bailess guarding Alan Cunningham at one end scoring 12 points at the other 10 end and grabbing a game-hig- h rebounds at bot ends The other defensive wizard of the team Blair Martineau also had a difficult assignment covering Barry Young whom the ('SU coaches tout as potentially the best player on the squad Although Young had 21 points when guarded by Martineau in the first half he managed only three Martineau was given a rest CSU’s Lawrence-Nea- l stepped out of bounds he grabbed William's mug and whispered unkind notings in his ear Both benches cleared but Belnap and the officials extinguished the flame at the start of the second half an Young went on his scoring spree Belnap's future seems assured with the play of Freshmen Jack-so- n and Furniss who missed only one shot between them Furniss scored nine points in only four minutes of action Jackson was undaunted by Ins first game in the collegiate games as he gamely fought for eight rebounds The game was not without activity Only six minutes into the second half and CSU trailing the Aggies extra-curricul- 47-3- 3 however the game remained physical Young found himself dodging flying feet after landing on the floor following a rebound flared USU meets Fresno State night in the Spectrum at 7:30 Fresno knocked off defending Big Sky champion Idaho State 0 Saturday night in Fresno (Nearly the same Idaho State team that knocked off UCIA in last year’s NCAA playoffs) 65-4- 2Ctng Vf A hair Crtr Wain ond Logon IHoh 04321 Hair Hoir Styling £ Razor Cutting ft Hair Analysis ft Regular Hair Cuts NO APPOINTMENT 752 9829 8:30-5:3- JHan or NECESSARY — 0 Closed Wed “Jor Sljr players emerged from the games with cut lips and polished elbows After hum Several attempt ar tempers 83-6- 6 & Sun Soman ®ljo (HartB” CHRISTMAS SALE THUNELL PHOTOGRAPHY UC Basement CAMERAS PROJECTORS LIGHT METERS TRIPODS ELECTRONIC FLASH ALL At Bargain Prices! 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