Show 2B Standard-Examin- Saturday October 22 1988 er Sports Utah bids to upset LARAMIE Wyo (AP) — Two of the nation's most potent offenses clash at noon today as Utah bids to upset Wyoming and Cowboy coach Paul Roach hopes his team can avoid a shootout With the teams jointly averaging 10763 yards and 752 points per game it probably won’t be defense that wins the game but rather the team that has the final nth-tank- 12th-ranke- ed pos-sessi- oa play-actio- In a bid to avoid such a scoring ll Wyoming defenders will be aiming for the heart of Utah’s offense — quarterback Scott Mitchell Last week the free-for-a- 4-- 7-- Wyoming d sophomore passed for 620 yards in Utah’s ance with a tenacious rush Thirty-on- e loss to Air Force times this fall Wyoming defenders led by Utah Coach Jim Fassell hopes his offenPat Rabold Dave Edeen and Mitch Donasive line will be up to the challenge hue have sacked quarterbacks for 255 “We’re going to have every conceivable yards in losses way I know to slow down their rush” said Against New Mexico last week WyoFassel “We’ve got to throw quick we’ve recorded eight sacks and on one ming got have maximum protection we’ve got Rabold tipped a pass to Edeen who play to move the quarterback we’ve got to lumbered 78 yards for a touchdown n a have to we’ve got strong Stopping Mitchell however won’t be running game and then we’ve got to keep said Roach easy them off balance” 0 overall and 0 in the “You know anytime a guy throws for Wyoming or 6 you can’t Western Athletic Conferee has managed 620 yards and is so far to keep most passing attacks off bal throw him around like a rag doll” he said 6-- Sports briefs While Utah is just 4 overall and in the conference Mitchell has riddled opposing defenses with his passes The sophomore’s passing game tops the nation averaging 4313 yard per game He has completed almost 60 percent of his passes for 2579 yards and 19 touchdowns 2-- 1- -3 Layton will conduct fall gymnastics LAYTON — Layton City Recreation will conduct registration for Fall Session II Gymanstics Monday through Thursday from 7 pm at the Parks and Recreation Office 465 N 275 E The program offers tumbling and gymnastics instruction for young people ages 3 to 1 6 years old Registration fee is $20 for session beginning the seven-wee- k Nov2 and running through the week of Dec 12 Registration must be done by a parent or guardian because classes are registered by age experience and ability A release form must be filled out at the time of registration For more information call 3-- Wyoming’s Randy Welniak a redshirt senior is second to Mitchell in the league in TD tosses with 13 He has completed 56 percent of his attempts for 1777 yards and been intercepted just seven times while Mitchell has been picked off 11 times Dodger blue seek lots of long green OAKLAND Calif (AP) -Now that Los Angeles Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley has the World Series title in his pocket he may have to reach for his wallet The Dodgers have 1 players eligible to file for free agency in the next 15 days and must make decisons on several aging players who finished the season with serious injuries Repeating as world champions isn’t easy The last team to accomplish the feat was the 1977-7- 8 New York Yankees One of the Dodgers’ heroes in e their victory over Oakland was Mickey Hatcher who was 7 for 19 and hit two homers with five RBI Hatcher who signed as a free agent in 1987 earned $300000 this season and will be looking for a hefty raise “I think Mickey exemplifies what this team is all about” left fielder Kirk Gibson said “This team always believed in itself I got hurt and the team accepted that I would be out And Mickey steps in and fills my role and I filled his We had a team approach that kept us together” But it will take some US 1 five-gam- green to keep the Dodger Blue together in 1989 The other players eligible for free agency are Alfredo Griffin Jay Howell Mike Marshall Jesse Orosco Alejandro Pena Steve Sax Mike Scioscia John Shelby Mario Soto and Fernando Valenzuela Scioscia who earned $1 million this season has an option on his contract and the Dodgers are expected to pick it up But what about Valenzuela? earned $205 The million in 1988 but went down with a shoulder injury in July Soto was released by Cincinnati at midseason and made $12 million He is trying to make it back from a rotator cuff injury and it’s unlikely the Dodgers will risk a lot on his chances Orel Hershiser is not eligible for free agency but he can go to salary arbitration He will want as much — if not more — as Valenzuela is paid Hershiser who made $11 million this season probably will ask for about $2 million next year It would be hard to imagine any arbitrator turning 546-85- Kruzich’s goaltending sparks Flint past SLC FLINT Mich — Goaltender Ray Kruzich kicked aside 35 Salt Lake shots to key the Flint Spirits to a 3 victory over the Golden Eagles Friday in International Hockey League action Kruzich also stopped the Eagles on all seven of their power play chances as the Spirits picked up their first win of the season Randy Bucyk Paul Ranheim and Theoren Fleury all scored for Salt Lake Peter Horacheck bad two of the Spirits’ goals The Golden Eagles fell to 5 on the season They play at Fort Wayne tonight and Peoria on Sunday 7-- left-hand- er 3-- Sand Ridge shuts down Wahiquist Los Angeles Dodgers’ Orel Hershiser and his wife Jamie hug their down number any the asks for General Manager Fred Claire would like to have the Dodgers right-hand- er NORTH OGDEN — Sand Ridge used a productive running game and stingy defense Friday to defeat Wahiquist 30-- 6 in a Weber County junior high school football game Five Scorpion runners combined for 310 yards of the 381 yards of total offense it had Jason Harrop rushed for 1 10 yards and one touchdown to lead the quintet The Sand Ridge defense limited Wahiquist to 8 yards They recovered four fumbles and intercepted a pass Dustin Mathews Nate Miconi and Harrop rushed for touchdowns for the victors Miconi tossed a TD pass to Lance Yeaman for Sand Ridge’s other score golden retriever Slider the day after Hershiser was named MVP of the Series back in the Series next year and his worrying started when Her- shiser struck out Tony Phillips to end Game 5 “I’ve been worried since day one” Claire said “It's part of the job “If you’re not worried you’re not doing your job” Things just couldn’t get much worse for Aggies SAN JOSE Calif — For the Utah State University Aggies things couldn’t get much worse USU celebrated a national television appearance against Fresno State last week with a numbing 0 loss It dropped the Aggies to 1 in Big West Conference play and 4 overall Fresno State’s Bulldogs meanwhile improved their record to 0 in conference play with the win good for the Big West 51-1- 2-- 2-- 3-- lead “We did not execute the game plan that 1 80 had envisioned" said Utah State Coach Chuck Shelton “We gave up five big plays — worth 228 yards and 28 points That’s awesome in five plays” Now it’s time for the Aggies to face the conference’s No 2 team — San Jose State which comes into this weekend’s action with a 0 conference record and a 5 overall mark Kickoff is set for 2:30 pm (MDT) here at Spartan Stadium It’s Homecoming for San Jose State Utah State has lost its last three consecutive games here 2-- 2-- 1 1 After winning their first game of the seaThe Spartans are led by senior quarterson the Spartans dropped six in a row be- back Ken Lutz and his 1592 yards seven fore beating the University of Pacific 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions Junior last week tailback Johnny Johnson leads the San “If there’s anybody with a tougher Jose State rushing game with 680 yards schedule than us it’s them” Shelton said Johnson has been in the end zone a few “They won a lot of games against the same times too — he’s scored 14 touchdowns kind of schedule a year ago They also this year (12 rushing two on pass recephaven’t played at home in five weeks so tions) that’s scary” The Aggies lost to the Spartans last year Defensively the Spartans are paced by in Logan 4 And San Jose State leads junior Dave Moss and his 68 tackles and the overall series 1 junior safety Ryan Rasnick’s 49 tackles 35-1- 26-ya- rd Mansfield paces Roy past South Ogden 24-1- ROY -- — Mansfield plus a conversion to help two-poi- nt wsc Trent scored three touchdowns 2 pace Roy past South Ogden in a Weber County Junior High School football game here Thursday Mansfield hauled in TD tosses of 15 and 20 yards from Mike Shepherd and they also hooked conversion up on a pass Mansfield also had an eight-yar- d scoring run for the Redskins while Roy’s other scores came on Chris Gregory’s run and on an pass interception return by Travis Flint Flint and Gregory paced Roy’s defensive effort with Justin Scott and Chad Cameron also coming up with pass interceptions while Jeff Harris and Culley Cook each recovered Spartan fumbles to help the Redskins square their league record at 3 with the win South Ogden which scored on a pair of touchdown passes saw its slate slip to 3 with the setback 32-1- From IB Weber last year the Vandals own a 1 conference record and 1 overall mark thus far this season But Gilbertson isn’t taking anything for granted 3-- 5-- “It’s always an offensive show whenever we play Weber so I see no reason to expect anything different this time” he said “We’ve had some great games with them They’ve got lots and lots of good athletes and great skill on offense They have maybe one of the two best running backs in the Big Sky in Fine Unga He’s a difficult guy to get on the ground and he had a great game against us in the playoffs last year “It’s going to be a test This is the best team we’ve played to date all season no doubt about it We’re going to have to get Fine Unga on the ground We’re not going to have a lot of success if that guy just runs wild on us like he did in that last game of the season But I don't know if we’ve got anybody in our program that can tackle him “Jeff Carlson is a big threat too” Gilbertson said of the Wildcats’ quarterback “That touchdown pass he (Carlson) threw on the last play of the game against Reno went 75 yards in the air and it’s one of great throws I’ve ever ever ever seen in my life The guy’s a great athlete and made a great play “A win like that can really propel a team It can do so much for you and can have such a positive effect on your team” ’Cats Coach Mike Price hopes that’s the case but he figures his team must put plenty of pressure on Friesz to have any chance of improving its 1 Big Sky slate and 3 season mark “We only scored 97 points against them last year and yet we still can’t seem to get any respect from them” Price said “But we have a lot of respect for them They’re probably the best team in 2-- 3-- the Big Sky right now We’re respectful of Idaho but we’re not in awe of them They're wearing the Big Sky championship ring not Weber State They came in here (Ogden) and took that ring away from us last year “But if there’s one place we could play on the road in the conference it would be the Kib-bi- e Dome" Price said “We really like going there to play We’re going up there with every intention of winning and we don’t care if it's by one point We just want to win one more game and this is the one we want to win” In other words it’s the “Biggest Game of the Year” for Weber State at least until next week Rodeo From IB that started Friday and runs through Oct 30 with 14 performances Zollinger said the field here will still be strong n Two of the cowboys scheduled to compete are 1980 Cowboy Paul Tierney of Hermosa SD and e world champion team roper Leo Camarillo from Locke-for- d Calif The public will be admitted to rough stock barrel racing and timed event slack on Sunday Monday and Tuesday for $2 per person The same $2 admission fee applies to three-hea- d progressive team roping barrel racing and three-hea- d progressive steer wrestling on Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday Sunset resident respectively Performance prices are $5 genRoyal Greens No 3 eral admission and $7 for reROY — Loren “Lumpy” Nie-te- rt served seats Monday night is got his weekend started with Family Night where $15 admits the entire family to general ad- a bang Friday canning a hole in mission seating one on Royal Greens Golf Tickets are available at most Course's No 3 par-- 3 hole Nietcrt a Sunset Flying J locations resident notched the ace Friday Schedule of events: n Sunday — rough stock slack barrel morning He was using a racing slack 830 am to 4 pm $2 and playing from the blue tees on admission the hole Monday — timed event slack 9 a m It was Nictcrt’s second lifetime to 4 p m $2 admission World Classic ace Friday’s feat was witnessed Finals 7 30 pm Tuesday — timed event slack 9 by Roger Armstrong John Gosa m to 4 pm $2 admission World sett and Bob Shupe Classic Finals 730 p m two-poi- better-know- nt 89-ya- rd All-Arou- four-tim- 3-- Willis From IB of the secondary want to show them what we can do and get a ictory" Willis and Co will be facing a severe test against the Vandals since Weber State ranks in the Big Sky in passing defense while Idaho is the top passing team in the conference and ranks No 2 in NCAA Division next-to-la- st I-- me and 1 have a chance to knock them down” At and 180 pounds Willis ranks as one of the fastest players on the team with 45 dash speed in the “I was recruited (out of Fresno Calif) as an athlete running back defensive back or wide receiver 1 kind of wanted to play running back' at first but when I got up here I wanted to be a wide receiver and get a chance to catch the ball “Right after the University of Utah game (a loss in 1984) Coach (Bob) Bratkowski asked me how 1 felt about moving over to defense I said I would give it a try and I’m happy I made the move “It took me a while to get offensive football out of my system because I had the touchdown 40-ya- rd 52-1- 6 “Wide receiver is the enemy now” said Willis who played that position as a freshman "Everybody looks at wide receivers as not being physical-typ- e players and I didn’t want to be looked at in that light I love it when wide receivers try to block mentality of carrying the ball 20 and technique and being a receivtimes a game in high school" er helped him adjust to being a Willis said comcrback "I expect him and some of the “My whole freshman year was tough because I was going both other veterans to do things right ways That summer I knew I had without me getting on them That to get offense out of my mind exenables us to spend more time cept for punt returns watching film and doing game "Wade Orton and I both came preparation rather than doing in playing the same position and chalkboard-typ- e things" Zimmer I didn’t want to accept being' said moved because I wasn’t as good "Rich is basically responsible as Wade But Coach (Mike) for the deep post and outside takeoff in our zone coverage He explained the reasons behind the move and since then plays the short side comer while it’s been great” Jody (Marshall) plays the wide Mike Zimmer defensive coorside dinator and secondary coach said "Sometimes 1 think he can Willis is "a good steady player play people tighter than he does who likes to have fun when he’s lie has the ability to play them as out there He’s been around for a tight as he wants to but when while (a fifth-yesenior) so he you play zone as much as we do jokes around with the other playyou can have a tendency to get ers He has improved his speed soft" he said Gill-ham- ar Hayes Hoch Cook tied in GULF BREEZE Fla ( AP) — Tom Byrum the latter shooting a Mark Hayes Scott Hoch and 64 the lowest score of the tournaJohn Cook tied for the second-roun- d ment and the lowest of his career lead at 135 on the PGA Tour Triday in the $400000 Pensacola Dan Pohl Howard Twitty and Open Ray Stewart were two strokes beOne stroke behind the leaders hind the leaders at 137 were Lance Ten Broeck Ken The three leaders the By rum Green and brothers Curt and brothers and the trio at 137 all cr second-roun- d played in the morning before strong winds and a brief rain shower hit the 7033-yar- d par-7- 2 course at Tiger Bay Golf and Country Club The final two rounds will be played Saturday and Sunday by 79 golfers who shot even-pa- r 144 or below in the first 36 holes lead This is the first year for the tournament at Tiger Point near this Pensacola suburb after 10 years at the Perdido Bay Resort about 30 miles west of here "I can’t remember playing any courses like that in the United States" said Hoch who had six birdies and one bogey Bull-O-Ra- 3-- aces six-iro- 160-ya- rd progresWednesday — three-hea- d sive team ropmg 8 a m to 4 p m $2 admission World Classic Finals 730 pm Thursday — 4 pm $2 admission a 8 a m to World Classic Fi-- s 730 pm 8 a m to 4 Friday — o m $2 admission World Classic Finals 730 p m Saturday Oct 29 — barrel racing 8 a m to noon $2 admission three-hea- d progressive steer wrestling noon to 4 p m $2 admission performance and bucking horse sa'e 11 a m to 4 pm: Wor'd Classic Fma's 730 p m Rawstorne surprises 4th seed at tourney ATHENS Ga — Weber State’s Lindsay Rawstorne defeated Greg Failla of Southern California 4 3 Friday in the consolation portion of the Volvo TennisCol-legiat- e Championship at the University of Georgia Rawstorne overcame a slow start in the first set to upset the favored Failla fourth-seede- d -6 6-- 6-- |