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Show PACE THE THUNDERBIRD 10 MONDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1986 'Bird gridders thrash SLO to end season at BY RUSSELL HYMAS The closed their season with a big win Saturday as they toppled the Mustangs of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 43-3- 3. The win gives SUSC an 3 record (3-- 3 in conference play) to finish the toughest schedule a Thunderbird team has ever played. A very happy head coach, Jack Bishop was excited that his squad finished the year. "It was an outstanding game," he said. "I'm not sure I've been through a game where we've totally dominated as we did this afternoon." Dominate is exactly what SUSC did throughout the game, leading by as much as 22 points at certain times. The 'Birds ran up a total of 467 yards 317 in the rushing column. The defense prompted four turnovers, and SUSC was able to capitalize on three of them "The 8-- defense played very well," said Bishop. "They came up with key plays throughout the game." The led the Mustangs 14-- 7 at the end of the first quarter SUSC's first touchdown came when Don Wells blocked a punt that was picked up and run into the endzone by Mike Guarino. The other score was set up by a recovered fumble by linebacker Todd Olsen A few plays later, Kyle Wilson ran the ball into the endzone for six. In the second quarter, Herkey Marxen kicked his to give longest field goal of the season a the 'Birds a 17-- 7 lead. The Mustangs came back with a touchdown, but their point-afte- r attempt was no good, and the half ended with SUSC up 17-1The came out fired up in the third quarter, scoring 18 points and holding Cal Poly scoreless. A 41 yard field goal by Marxen opened up the Thunderbird scoring. John Bankhead recovered a Cal Polv fumble to set up SUSC's next score, which came er 3. -- 8-- 3 the form of a Rob Hill touchdown run. On the Mustangs' next drive, Mark Cranney intercepted a pass to set up another SUSC score. On a fourth down play, quarterback Chad Richard hit Scott Mosher in the endzone, and with a two-poito end the conversion, SUSC led the Mustangs 35-1- 3 third quarter. Cal Poly began to get its act together in the fourth quarter, scoring three touchdowns. But the 'Birds scored another touchdown of their own when Richard hit Mosher with a touchdown pass. Another two-poiand gave conversion put SUSC up 43-3the 'Birds the victory. Despite its win, SUSC suffered a big loss when the freshman kicker Marxen was taken out of the game in the third quarter with a knee injury. Although the extent of the injury is still undetermined, Bishop and his staff are hoping that the knee will be rehabilitated in time for spring ball. in nt 15-ya- rd nt 3, Dakines win co-e- d volleyball tourney It wasn't the USA vs Japan, but the thrill of victory and the agony ot defeat were still present at the finals of the intramural co-e- d volleyball tournament Held Monday evening in the P.E. Building, the "Dakine" team took the honors, beating the "Power Dinks in the championship match. The two teams were the survivors of a single elimination tournament. The winning team included Alema Te'o, Stacev Larati, Mike Guarino, Anna Marie, Lori Miles, Prank Afamata, and Dunn Alisa You don't have to be a turkey to strut your stuff at the intramural "Turkey Trot," which will be held Monday, Nov. 24 at Thunderbird Stadium All students and faculty are invited to walk, run, or jog the 1.5 to 2 mile course. The actual distance and course will be posted at trot time to give everyone an equal chance to win. Winners will be selected in three divisions mens, womens, and faculty, and will be awarded turkeys. Registration will be that afternoon from 3 15 to 3 45, and the race will begin at 4 p m. sharp. for men's and Today is the last day to sign-u- p women's whittleball. Play begins Monday, Nov. 24 for the men, and Tuesday, Nov. 25 for the women Co-e- d whiffleball sign-up- s will continue through Dec. 1. Registration forms are available on the bulletin board located in the P.E. Building 14-tea- m JV beat The Dakine team th e Power Dinks in Monday night's co-e- d volleyball championship game hoop scheduled to open Friday at CEU Golfer places high BY GREG MILES (6-- With the season opener four days away, the JV basketball team is hard at work preparing for its tough schedule of games. Under Coach Paul Noble, the team has, what Noble calls, "the best JV schedule in the state," with 18 games between November and Pebruary. The have home and away games with all of the state's two-yeJV colleges and all of the four-yeteams. They also have games scheduled with two teams one in Rock Springs, Wyo. against Western Wyoming College, and one in the Centrum against Hesston College out of Kansas. Lour players are returning from last year's squad, including Chad Michaelson (6-- 1 sophomore guard), Marty Gleave (6-- 2 sophomore guard), Randy Simkins include Jim Leavitt (5-- 9 freshman guard), Mike 1 Johnson (6-- 0 freshman guard), Erik Hughes freshman guard), Kent Stoker (6-- 6 sophomore forward), Mike Chisholm (6-- 6 sophomore forward), and Craig Wvatt (6-- 3 freshman guard). record last year, Noble has much Coming erf a optomism about this year's team. "The team will have a new personality this year," he reported. "We have more to go with up front, and won't have to rely as much on our outside shooting." Noble stressed that his team plays a very exciting brand of basketball. "We play very fast paced," he said. "We like to keep the intensity level high." The team opens its season Friday night when they take on the College of Eastern Utah in Price. ar ar te sophomore center), and Brian Miller 5 sophomore centerforward). The team's newcomers 8 (6-- (5-1- 4-- While we reported a couple weeks ago that the golf team has finished its fall schedule, we failed to note that one team member placed extremely high tournament held at individually in a the Air Force Academy. Brett Wilkinson, a junior at SUSC, placed second among 84 golfers at the Falcon Golf Invitational in September. Wilkinson shot a 147 at the 14-tea- m 54-ho- le tournament. Wilkinson is from Farmington, Utah, and transferred to SUSC from Taft College in California. SUSC golf coach Tom Kingsford says that Wilkinson is the backbone of the team. "Brett is a very talented golfer," says Kingsford. "We'll look to him to help carry our team when start back up again next Spring." |