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Show Smith, David Johnson and Bruce Collins are three big Wildcats are the reasons big favorites to win the Big Sky this season. They are WEBER STATE'S Richard all returning Big Sky Conference selections, 'Cats make it eightstraight with win o ver Seattle The Weber State Wildcats put their seven game winning streak bn the line Tuesday night, visiting the Seattle Chieftains (Dec. 18) in Seattle Center Arena. Tip-of- f is 8:00 p.m. (PST). The Cats won two at home and a big one on the road and College last week, defeating Rhode Island (82-6at home and outlasting a scrappy, ) of St. Francis but depleted New Mexico team, 0 in Albuquerque. The Wildcats are now, 1 on the season. The Cats return home this coming Saturday (Dec. 22) hosting Circle beginning at the University of Illinois-Chicag- o 7:30 p.m. (MST) in the Dee Events Center. Weber will then have a week off to prepare for the Las Vegas Weber's first round opHoliday Classic (Dec. ). NCAA champion the is one in that defending ponent Michigan State. Last season, the Chieftains came into Ogden with a 1 rival Washington, 2 mark, having lost to cross-tow- n prior to the Ogden match up. The Wildcats drilled the Chieftains, This year it's the same story, except Weber is . coming into Seattle with a 1 mark, but Seattles last defeat was Saturday night against Washington, the bringing its overall 1979-8- 0 season record to in Classic in Fiesta the Tempe, only victory coming A,., an 4 consolation win over Southern Illinois. In 12 previous meetings. Weber has taken seven wins, losing five. Before last years meeting, the two clubs hadn't seen each other since . the 1970-7- 1 season the Wildcats when they split a pair of games. In 1969-7home at season against the lost a regular game Chieftains, but gained some revenge by defeating them in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. 0 center Jawann Leading the way for Seattle is Oldham who averaged 17 points and 11 rebounds for the (96-67- 80-7- 7-- 28-29- 4-- 91-8- 90-6- 0. 7-- 89-6- 4, 86-7- 7-- Chiefs last season. Oldham played for the United States World Games team this past summer in Mexico. Last year against Weber, Oldham had 12 points, 11 rebounds and two blocked shots before fouling out. The only other player who played against WSC last year listed on the 1979-8- 0 roster is guard Carl Ervin (6-who scored three points in last years game, so the Chieftains will be unknown to the Cats because of the influx of junior college transfers and freshman. Head Coach Jack Schalow is in his second season as head coach after guiding Seattle to its first winning season last year (16-1since the 1973-7- 4 season. The University of Illinois-Chicag- o Circle makes it first appearance in the Dee Center on Saturday night. The night has been designated as HOTEL BALDERDASH night with the cast from Hotel Balderdash presenting the halftime show. All kids 12 years and younger can purchase a reserve seat for only 11. There will also he a featured preliminary game S between the KltSP and a team made up of the media who cover Weber State basketball. That game is scheduled to get underway at 5:15 p.m. The Circle (that is their official nickname as of last week, it was the Chikas) has gotten off to a rocky start. Going into a Wednesday night encounter with Eastern with its first 10 games Illinois on the road, UIGCis of the year on the road. Their latest loss was a 6 contest to Nebraska-Omah- a Saturday. The head coach at UICC is Tom Meyer, now in his third year with a record of Meyer is the son of DePaul University coach Ray Meyer. The leading rebounder and scorer thus far has been 6 forward Courtney James with 11 rebounds and 12 points a contest. Jose Lara (6-- 6 Vi) a guard, and Van also a guard have both been around 7.5 McCarty (6-points a game. CAT TRACKS Bruce Collins took over the team scoring lead with a 27 point effort against St. Francis Saturday night. Collins is averaging 17.3 a game, with teammate David Johnson close behind a 17.0 WSC Speaking of Collins, Bruce is scheduled to play and start in his. 100th straight game for the Wildcats. Collins has never missed a game and has been a starter in every game his has played while at Weber. Collins e continues to surge forward as the schools leading scorer with 1626 career points. all-tim- KRISPY-KRITTER- 0-- 5, 91-7- 27-3- 3. 6-- WSC With seven wins in a row, the Wildcats are just half 9 way towards the school record of 14 set during the season when the Cats won 13 straight, then lost to SEATTLE, then ran off 14 in a row before losing to Santa Clara in the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats were that season, a school record that still stands for number of wins and season winning percentage. 1968-6- 27-- 3 WSC With his two points against St. MATTOS become the 21st player to Francis, MARK score 600 career on the nose and is 30 behind points. Mattos has 600 number 20, John Silbernagel. |