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Show Page 6—THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, Tuesday, January 22, 1980 Sports: What's happening on the national scene, state and loca! sports, columns and opinions AEK Wilson Named Utah's Sportsmanof Year Marc Wilson, Brigham Young University's record-setting quarterback and consensus All-American, has been selected by the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce as the 1979 UTAH SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR and will be honored at a banquet Wednesday hosted by TV GUIDE magazine “The aaghrele the Year Award recognizes single most significant contribution to Utah sports during the past year,” said Fred S. Ball, executive vice president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce. Hewill pre- sent Wilson with an engraved silver bowl at a banquet at the Athenian Restaurant, 247 East 2nd South, Salt Lake City. The festivities will begin at “Hehas broughta lot of glory to the school, but even while he was getting all of this exposure,” Schulthess continued, “he always acknowledged the 6:30 p.m. performance of Past recipients of the award include Zelmo Beatty, Steve Odom, LaVell Edwards, Art Teece, Suzie Brasher, Jerry Pimm and Wayne Howard. “He has had a tremendous career at BYU,” said BYU Sports Information Director Dave Schulthess.‘In his first game, as a starter for the Cougars he threw for seven touchdowns and ran for one more, setting a conference record. Syracuse Rebounds By United Press Internaticnal Apparently there's nothing like upstateNew ork in January to shake the winterblues. Syracuse wonits first 14 games this season before ‘at Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va. over Orangemen returned home Monday night and they wouldn’t have it any other way. Syracuse defeated a stubborn Detroit team 89-83, defending its hometurf in characteristic fashion ; it was the Oranemen’s 53rd_straight victory at House. With Roosevelt Bouie scoring 18 points and grabbing 13 rebounds on his 2nd birthday, Syracuse rebounded from its lost weekend and ran its record to 15-1. “We had to get rid of our energy on somebody,” said Bouie, whose club slipped from third to fifth in Tuesday's national ranRings. ‘‘We made the key it, clawi neste from 1! 2-poin it ee deficit, led "4 at the half and Syracuse Coach Jim im saw enough holes in his club’s defense to last an entire season. “We played zero defense in thefirst half,” he said. “Detroit is a good basketball team. They’ve got guys who can shoot a ball.” Louis Orr contributed 18 points and 13 rebounds and Erich Santifer added 1+ points for Syracuse. Although Syracuse battered the Titans 42-26 on the boards, the Orangemen were unable to rattle Detroit center Earl Cureton, who hit 11 of 1 shots from thefloorfor 28 points. “He's as good a center as we've seen this year,not including (Purdue's) Joe Barry Carroll,” Boeheim said. In the only other game involving a ranked team, No. 3 Duke beat Georgia Tech 56-49. All-America center Mike Gminski scored 24 points and had eight rebounds as Duke thwarted a slowdown by Georgia Tech in an Atlantic Coast Conference game. The Blue Devils, 152, trailed by two points with 11 minutes left but pulled away in the closing minutes on a barrage of free throws. Georgia Tech was paced by Lenny Horton’s 16 points. “People accuse us of stalling, of keeping the score down because we don’t have the people to run with some of the great athletes Playing basketball in the ACC,” said Georgia Tech Coach Dwane Morrison. ‘But look at Duke. Even with all that talent, they didn’t wantto risk running on us in the closing minutes.” “They sure get a lot out of the material they have,” he said. “You don’t wantto play like that, but they keep you off balance.” sociated Press, Walter CampFootball Foundation and Churchman's Hall of Fameteams. Healso placed third in the Heisman Trophy standings. ‘His ie looks verybright,’” Schulthess said. his teammates, par- ticularly the offensive line that protected him. Hehasgreat leadership qualities."" During his football career at BYU, Wilson set 10 NCAA records and tied two more. In the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), Wilson set 19 individual records. These recordsinclude Most Yards Gained in a Career, Most Games of 300 or More Yards and Most Yards Gained in a Game. Wilson's first team All-American honors include being selected for the American Football Coaches Association (Kodak) team, the Football Writers Association of America team, the United Press International, As- She’s No. 1 Jan Shelley Flies Through Air Eagles All Alone SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Salt Lake scored the final two goals in the game Monday night to defeat Indianapoiis 7-5, giving the Golden Eagles sole possession of first place in the Central Hockey League standings. Salt Lake i ahead 3-1 after one period and led 42 going into the final Period. But the Checkers rallied to tie the score at 5-all on Garth wigan’s unassisted goal with just 9:40 left in the game. However, Dick Lamby scored the Pe just 3:07 later to give Salt back the lead. Then Len Frig — who had lost the puck to MacGwigan for Indianapolis’ final goal — fed Brian Ogilvie with a cross-ice pass and vie scored an empty-net counterin the final minute for the Eagles’ twogoal win. The Checkers had pulled their goalie in the last minute, adding an extra attacker in a bid to tie the score and force an overtime. Ogilvie started Salt Lake’s first- period scoring on a power play. He was followed by Bob Simpson and Doug Palazzari, also on a power play. Bob Mullen scored for the Eagles in the second period, and Rick Bowness, Lamby and Ogilvie in the third. Bowness’ power-play goal was Salt Lake's third for post-graduate work. Wilson and his wife, the former Colleen Cox, are the parents of a son, Travis, and he is optimistic about playing professionalfootball and also going to law school. BYU Netters Win, Slate Invitational Using New Mexico as a warmupfor the upcoming BYU Invitational, the Cougar men’s tennis team defeated the Lobos, 9-0, Monday afternoon. The Cougars will now play host to San Diego State, Utah, New Mexico, Utah State and Weber State, Wednesday- Saturday in a 82 player tourney. Each of the Western Athletic Conference teams will send six players to the tourney, while Utah State and Weber will send four. This tournamentis the first of its kind among the WAC schools, who hope to makeit an annual event. The tourney will be held on BYU’sindoorcourts. The tournament will be a single elimination tourney with the following time schedule: on Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 10 p.m. (doubles beginning at 7:30); on Friday, noonto 8 p.m. (doubles beginning at 3 p.m.); and Saturdaythe finals will begin at 8 a.m. in the singles and 9:30 a.m. in the doubles. Admission is free to the public. Missing from the BYU Invitational will be the Utah duo of Jeff Robbins and Jeff Nissenbaum along with BYU’s number one Player, John Sanford, The Utah duo will be playing in the National in Collegiate Indoor ‘ournament in Houston, Tex., representing district seven. Last year, BYU’s Eric Peterson wasin the tourney at Houston,asone of the top two players in the district, which is now chaired by BYU Coach a BYU'sSanford will be missing from action because of a sprained ankle which he suffered after stepping on a ball in last Saturday's practice. Sanford was absent from the BYU-New Mexico dual,butwill return to practice next week. Despite the absence of Sanford, Hall confirms thatthe best of the district seven teamswill be represented in the BYUInvitationa, with Hawaii being the only WAC team not entered. And despite the absence of Sanford, the Cougars easily walked away from New Mexicowith fre: in Russ Thompson Stepping in the lineup as the sixth man. ie Cougars swept the singles and doubles with ease, with the number four through six players for BYU being freshman. Results from the meet are as follows: Singles 1-Mike Tammen, BYU, def. David Geatz,6-3,64 .Hod Miller, BYU,def. Jerry Wheeler, 6-2, 5-7, 1 $Rick Fought, BYU, def. Alex Dorato,61, 64 4-Matt Murphy, BYU, def. Daryi Phaluch,63, 65-Richard Bohne, BYU, def. Curtis Neeld, 6-7, 6 2, 62 6-Russ Thompson, BYU,def. Andy Miekle, 6-3,4&Dou!14 bles: 1-Fought-Miller, BYU, def. Geatz-Wheeler, 6-1, 64 ‘2-Murphy-Bohne, BYU, def. Neel¢-Dorato,6-3, 6- * 3-Tammen-Thompson, Miekle, 6-1, 6-3 BYU, def. Phaluch- One of Best in West in the game. Ed Pizunski and Kevin Devine got the Checkers first and second period gals, and then a pair of goals by Alex icKendry and Neil Hawrilyw tied the score at 4all just 4:17 into the third period. But Bowness’counter gave Salt Lake a brief 5-4 lead before MacGwigan stole the puck from Frig 28 seconds later to tie the game for the final time. Salt Lakeis now 25-14-5 in the CHL, moving two points ahead of second-place Birmingham.Indianapolis remains in third place, one point behind the Bulls. The Eagles and Checkers meet in Salt Palace again Wednesday night, Salt Lake’s second game on an eightgame homestand. Scovil Leaves BYU returned after a season with the Chicago Bears, told the BYU players that they could becomethe top passing team in the country. They did and went through the lar season with a perfect 11-0 record. They were also the top scoring Scovil said today he is leaving BYU teamin the country. Quarterback Mare to join the staff of the Cincinnati Wilson became a concensus AllBengals in the NFL. . American and was third in the wothis has been an extremely hard Heisman balloting. decision for me to make," Scovil said. vil is recognized as a leading “T really love it at BYU and enjoyliv- authority on the passing game. Heis ing in Utah County. But I received an the second member of coach LaVell offer from the Bengals andit looks to Edwardsstaff to leave this winter. Asmeas if it will be a challenge and a sistant coach and offensive line coach ood for me.” Dave Kragthorpe accepted a position Last spring Sco j as head enach at Idaho State. Vs JAN SHELLY, a BYU freshman from Mesa,Ariz., shows form in the vault that has led her to No.1 r in the nation in the AllAround, it was announced today. BYU’s team is ranked 12th. bin: Team members Deena is ranked third and Liz Johns 10th for Cougars. BYU Gymnast Tops in U.S. Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Scovil announced leaving BYU for Cincinnati. performance the moneywill be used Cougar Thinclads Doug Scovil, BYU's popular offensive coordinator who correctly Predicted the Cougars would lead the nation in passing in 1979, decided this week to return to professionalfootball after a one-year absence. DOUG SCOVIL, BYU’sexcellent offensive costdinatersah A rterback-recelvers Till take his skill at Xs and Os to Wilson came to BYUfrom Seattle Washington. He red-shirted one year but Payot all of his collegiate ball at BYU. He majored in economics in the pre-law program at BYU and received a special $2,000 scholarship from the NCAA, based particularly on scholastic Just as they promised in the preseason, Cougar Coaches Rod and Debbie Hill have caused a complete turnabout in the women’s gymnastics program this year. Rising from obscurity at the season's beginning, BYU climbed from No. 17 to No. 12 in the latest rankings released by the National Statistical Service for GYM-nastics Even more impressive for the Cougar program was Jan Shelley's number one ranking in the service's all around catagory. Shelley, a freshman from. Mesa, Ariz., has been one of the key factors in the team’s rise to national prominence. Two other Cougar gymnasts, Deena Robbins and Liz Johns, were also ranked among the nation’s top 10 in the all around. Robbins, a freshman from Salt Lake City, was listed number three in the rankings and Johns, a sophomore from Golden, Colo. was rated No. 10. By BOB HUDSON Herald Sports Writer After one indoor track meet, it appears BYU’s men’s team will be one of the best in the west once again. Cougar competitors officially won three of 15 events at the Gem State Invitational at Idaho State Jan. 19 and another won his event while competing unattached, nosing out a teammatein the process. The Congas two-mile relay team sped to a 7:42.38 clocking to win its event by over two seconds with Weber State earning the runner-up spot at 7:44.65. Agberto Guimaraes won the mile with an impressive 4:09.15 and Chirs Child won the pole vault with a 16-foot-6 effort. Rafael Echavarria, competing unattached because of a temporary academic problem, won the 60-yard high hurdles in 7.38 seconds. BYUteammate Lloyd Jones, who was catching passes for the football team just a month ago, was second at7.39. “T was quite pleased with our performances for the first meet,” said Cougar head coach Clarence Robison. Robison said he expects the team to do well over the next two months ofindoor season andalso through the outdoor season. “I’m sure we're goingto haveto contend with our friends from UTEP,” Robison said, ‘‘but other than that, we can hold our own.” Indoors, according to Robison, the Cougars will be ‘‘pretty tough” in the pole vault, the middle distances, the hurdles and in the relays. The Cougars’ weaknesses inciude, as usual, the sprints. Guimaraes, who won bronze medals for his native Brazil in both the 800 and 1,500 metersruns at last summer's Pan American games,is ‘‘the strongest new competitor.”” Southern Utah Loses CageTilt’ “Our two hurdlers, Jones and Echavarria, look awfully good right now,” Robison added.‘We have a good new high jumper in Daniel Mamet (a Brazilian freshmanwith a bestof 7-142) and a walk-on triple jumper from Kansas who has jumped 47-10 for us. That’s a good jump for a freshman.” Although the Cougars only had the three winners, there were several other strong performances. To point out the strength in the middie distances, Larry Lawrence and Doug Padilla were just three seconds behind Guimaraes in the mile. Lawrence turned in a 4:12.03 clocking and Padilla was timed in 4:12.05. Bart Jones, Zenas Moreno and Gary Marshall showed promise with clockings of 1:16.88. 1:19.73 and 1:15.73 respectively in the 600-yard dash while Phil Peterson, Terry Belt and Mark Robison did the samein the 1000 with cloc! of 2:16.48,2:16.40 and 2:17.37. Ed Eyestone finished second in the ‘mile run with a time of 14:05.20 and Lin Whatcott was fourth at 14: 18.38, Kim Nielson wassecond in the ie jump at 6-10 (he had a best of 7-4 indoors a couple of years ago) and Sanders was secondin thetriple jump at 47-10. The Cougars will be at home for a meetin the Smith Fieldhouse Saturday. All the local college teams have been invited. Action will begin at noon. Seeded Ace Loses in Net Tourney OGDEN,Utah (UPI) — Trey Lewis of Costa Mesa, Calif., produced the first upset in a $25,000 women’s indoor tennis tournament Monday, easily defeating No. 4 seed Carrie Meyer of San Antonio, Texas,in straightsets. Lewis beat Meyer. 6-3, 6-3, to advance into Tuesday’s second round at the Ogden Swim and TennisClub South. Two other seeded players — No. 2 Sherry Ackerand No.8 Ruta Gerulaitis — needed tiebreaker wins to advance into the roundof 16 singles. Acker of Kalamazoo. Mich., edged South African Yvonne Vermaak 7-6 in their opening set, winning the tiebreaker 7-5. But she demolished Vermaakin the secondset, 6-0. Gerulaitis recovered from a 46loss SILVER CITY, N.M. (UPI) — Harold Ware and Darryl Ransom combined for 39 points Mondaynightto give Western New Mexico University an easy 96-63 victory over Southern Utah State and the lead in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferencerace. The Mustangs led from beginning to end, including 43-20 at the half, to capture their 11th win in 14 games and improvetheir conferencerecord to 7-1. Ware scored 20 points, Ransom 19 and teammate Bruce Bunyer joined them in double figures with 15. The Thunderbirds were led by Scott Spur- in her opening set to Lindsay Morse of rier with 17 points, while David Costa Mesa to win her matchin three Knudsen pumpedin 15. sets. Gerulaitis won the second set6-2, and took the third set 7-6 on a 7-2 tie American Fork Basketball breaker. The tournament. sponsored by Avon Lehi State Bank 97, Alpine cosmetics, runs through Saturday. The Super Saver 65 singles winner earns $3,400, while the Tingey's 75, Durfey's 62 Bark of American Fork 59 winning doubles team shares $1,200. Genuine Surplus 58. Doubles play begins Tuesday. |