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Show Page 6—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, December16, 1981 Sports A full report and commentary on winners, losers and coming events Cougars Clip Wildcats Guidry Signs With Yanks Again By BOB HUDSON Herald Sports Writer “We have never beaten that basketball team by more than10points,” said BYU coach Frank Arnold as he reviewed the Cougars’ 63-55 win over WeberState Tuesday. ‘That's because they’re always a verysolid club.” “BYU is a quality basketball team,’ i said Weber's Neil McCarthy. “I'm proud of my guys. We kept clawing away although we had several opportunities to crack when our shots didn’t drop or the calls went against us. Our guys hung in and showed poise." BYUled just 47-45 with eight minutes to go in the game, but began to ease away from there. Greg Ballif connected from the left of the key and Steve Trumbo gota lay-in to start the Cougars on their way. Royal Edwards got a pair of free throws to bring the Wildcats back to within four with 5:56 to go, but Scott Sinek hit a jumper from the topof the past season and tested the free agent market. ended nearly a yearof negotiations between his agent, John Schneider. and Steinbrenner. It also made the hard-throwingleft-hander the Tichest pitcher in the history of the Yankees and one of the richest in baseball. Although no terms of the contract were revealed. it is believed Guidry received a guaranteed four-year deal, with a limited trade proviso, worth ,000 per year. The contractalso includes an option year in which the Yankees, if they chose, could buy out Guidry’s contract for $500,000. Guidry also received a signing bonus, believed to be a half million dollars. Schneider. in his first effort as a player’s agent, originally sought a guaranteed five-year, $7.5 million contract from the Yankeesfor his client. However, he and Steinbrenner worked out a compromise agreement. Steinbrenner has publicly gone on That eventually moved to 59-49 as lasted nearly three minutes, with a cats committing nine and the Cougars a zen Both teams are now 6-3. averaging in his signing bonus. to start changing things now.”” The signing of Guidry. who played out his option with the Yankees this Trumbo scored another basket with 2:53 to go. Todd Harperfinally broke Weber's. scoreless string, which had icy 29 percent success rate and, maybe mostof all. Bonnie Guidry my houseis blue andI just didn’t want Edwards connected on another jumperandit was 53-49 BYUwith 4:50 left, but Trumbo scored on a jumper and then dropped in a pair of free throwsand it was 57-49 with 3:56 to go. Fred Roberts led BYUwith 24 points and half a dozen rebounds. Trumbo had 18 points and 10 rebounds and Greg Ballif hadninepoints. Ballif had two points taken away near the end of the game when Escandon was whistled for a technical foul under the Weber basket while he was scoring on the front of a fast break at the other end Todd Harper led Weber with 16 ints. 1 BYUoutrebounded Weber36-33. Turnovers were fairly even with the Wild- pitcher is worth $1 million year and, in effect, this new contract enables the Yankees’ ownertostick by that state- wanted her husband to remain in pinstripes “T felt I was getting ton | we to another place and =‘ ( a ver again,” Bonnie said Tues ‘oy °! cv her husband signed a mui ontract with the Yankees for approximately $900,000 a year. “Eversince we've beenin baseball it was always the Yankees. Everythingin key and the margin was six again jumperfrom the left corner. Sinek connected with a pair of free throws to push BYU's margin back to 10, but Weber closed to within six with 1:30 left to go as Doug Eilertson and Richard Escandon each collected a pair of free throws within 30 seconds. But that was close as the Wildcats could come although they had chances to drawcloser after Fred Roberts missed the back end of a one-and-one and Sinek missed the front end of two consecutive one-and-one opportunities. “We are verypleased to get through that game,” Arnold said “I was pleased with our defense,” Arnold continued. ‘In the first half they only score two baskets from inside the key. And they only got six in the game. That's not bad.” BYU played a man-to-man defense the entire first half and Weber stayed close most of the way, partly by shooting 50 percent from thefield with the majorityoftheir shots from 15feet. “We changed to a zone atthe half,” Arnold said, ‘‘and I thought that gave them some troubles.” Indeed. The Wildcats connected on just10 of 35 shots in the second half. an NEW YORK(UPI) — Noonereally expected pitcher Ron Guidry to leave the New York Yankees. Guidry wanted to stay. club owner GeorgSteinbrenner wanted him to stay record as saying he does notbelieve a ment However, Guidry can also sayhe achieved his $1 million-a-year goal by “In myeyes, this contracttill make mefinanciallystabl: for the rest of my life,” Guidrysaid. ‘I don’t worryabout being the highest-paid pitcher in baseball. That kind of stuff just creates moreproblems. ‘I'm glad it's over. Now I can get back to the thing I love most, my hunting. It interfered with my hunting. I've been hunting a lot longer than I've been playing baseball.” Schneider. a boyhood friend of Guidry’s from his hometown of Lafayette, La., worked out the contract at a three-hour meeting with Yankee club owner George Steinbrenner last Thursday night at the baseball meetings in Hollywood, Fla. Schneider flew back to Louisiana Saturday and reviewed the contract offer with Guidry, who gave his final approval. “If two people want something bad enough, you can work something out,’ said Guidry. ‘I think the Yankees wanted me as much as I wanted them.” Guidry, who has pitched for the Yankeesfor the past five seasons, was selected by 17 teamsin the re-entry draft but he madeit known right from the start that he wanted to remainwith the Yankees. Therefore, the talks with other clubs neverreally got past the preliminary stages, according to Schneider. “T never misled them. I told them right up front that Ron wanted to remain with the Yankees,’’ said Schneider. West Texas Coach Given Rebuilding Task at UTEP EL PASO, Texas (UPI) — Bill Yung, who turned a football program on the verge of disbanding at West Texas State into a thriving operation, has been hired as head football coach at The University of Texas at El Paso, a Greg Kite and Steve Trumbo reach for a rebound. star, led Weber with 31 points. WEBER AL Edwards $12 22.3.5 4 12 364 Ellertson 1 4130 6 wT Heywood $15 6 32 10 295 38222458 Be larper 16 00 423 16 379 Devincenzi 2411420 5 128 ie O69 120 0 ie Hafter 000 0 105 TEAM MREBOUNDSicineis Totals 9 21 Md 33 200 TRCe ist Hal 902tndHall29%Game 38% Fre. Ist Hal 1s 2nd Hall 67% Game 1% BYU fg ft r pl a tp mp Roberts 810 89 6 23 2% 390 Trumbo 59 8810 41 18 384 Kite 2501832 4 39 Sinek 3724345 8 20 Tuesday's preliminary game. Ballif 3835313 9 355 Dave Heaton, another former Provo Saarelainen 0400201 0 172 BYUleft todayfor a Friday meeting with Princeton on the New Jersey school’s campus. The gamewill start at 6 pm. MST. Next Tuesday the Cougars will entertain Cal Poly Pomona Timo Saarelainen made hisfirst appearance of the season for BYU. He wasoff on four shot attempts, but grabbed two rebounds, had anassist and a steal Former Provo High star Kevin Nielsen scored 29 points while Bob Capener added 24, as BYU’s junior varsity edged Weber's yearlings 87-83 in consistently downtrodden major col- Steve Heiner photo TEAMREBOUNDS‘Include in Totals 2143 21-27 36 14 15 63 200 ron ist Half 38% 2nd Half 65% Game 49% FT%: Ist Half 85% 2nd Half 71% Game 78%. OFFICIALS. Herrold and Belmont Technical Fouls: Harper, Escandon (WSC) Attendance 21,904 Halftime score: BYU31. WSC29. WEBER STATE JV(83) Fitzhugh 3 0-0 6, Heaton12 7-8 31, Bush 4 1-1 9, Carr 5 5-5 15, Frave 0 0-0 Jett 0 0-0 0, Clark 00-00, Sackett 3 0-0 6. Carter 4 2-2 10, Kirkwood 0 0-0 0, Guthrie 0 0-0 0. Astudillo 00-0 0, Stoddard 1 44 6, Totals 42 19-20. BYU JV (87) Harrick 00-00, J ee1 y-1 3, Sharp 21-25, Capener 12-15 24, Gibson 0 0, Gardner 1 0-0 2, Francis 3 0-0 6, Roberts 0 00 0, Mosier 0 0-0 0, Nielsen 10 9-12 29. Alleman 5 3-7 13, Haymond 21-5 5, Totals 31 27-39. lege football program. Yung said Tuesday he plans to turn the team around by making them think 4 positively, “You be positive with the kids in Orem DownsSpanish The Orem-Spanish Fork boxscore was separated from the story, which appears on page 8, because of some technical problems. Here is the boxscore SPANISH FORK(58) Zink 3 0-0 6, B. Hansen 7 0-0 14, Hales 5 1-2 11. Healey 4 2-5 10, Beckstrom 5 5-6 15, Hancock 0 0-0 0, Cook 1 0-0 2, Totals 25 8-13 58 OREM (65) McGinn 2 4-7 8, McCann 5 5-6 15,Butler 7 0-1 14, Peterson 3 4-4 10, Davis 6 0-2 12, Anderson 1 2-2 4 Hyde 1 0-1 2. Totals 25,15-23 36 SF. 16 3% 46 58 Orem 12 8 48 65 Fouled out: Healey. Total Fouls: Orem 10 Spanish Fork 20 everything that you do.” Yung said. “We are going to enjoy doing things here. I talked with players and everyone of themis starting out even.”” Yung was twice named MissouriVa!ley Conference coach of the year. “Tl do anything it takes to win,” he said. ‘We have throwntheball40 or 50 timesa gameto win. One gamewe ran 87 times. There could be a lot of 13-7 games next year, but I think El Pasoans would enjoythat.’” Texas-El Paso. which competes in the Western Athletic Conference, posted a 1-11 record this season, the same mark as produced by the 1980 squad. Bill Michael, who had compiled a 5-42 in four years with the Miners, wasfired two gamesdeepin the seasonafter his club lost to NCAA Division 2 member Texas A&l When Yung cameto West Texas, the school’s football program was on the vergeof collapse because of a lack of funding. But Yung, who worked as hard fund raising as he did in building the football team, rebuilt West Texasinto a respectable football squad Marion Dunn,sports editer Gambler Won't Chance Anything WithMcMahon SAN DIEGO — In one of the most touching moments in the four years of the Holiday Bow] — outside of the games themselves — Washington State's football team and official party gave Brigham Young University a standing ovation last night Tt happened this way The two teams were hosted at Sea World. This is an annual eventfor the Holiday Bowl. When the two teams mingle for a tour of Sea World, then share a buffet supper where the playersareintroduced and receivetheir gifts. Last night ABC sportscaster Keith Jackson was master of ceremonies which was ap- propriate because he is a graduate of Washington State and this is the Pullman school’s first trip to a bowl gamein 51 years. Jackson only had a small share in the tribute to the BYU Cougars although he was more than complimentary to coach LaVell Edwards, his staff, his players and the entire BYU community BYU's team wasintroducedindividually first, then the Washington State players Washington State head coach Jim Walden also coachesthe quarterbacks. He introduced his three quarterbacks and then talked for a few minutes about coming to the Holiday Bowl He kidded BYU quarterback Jim McMahon and then got serious, He praised BYU's football accomplishments in recent years and cited the Provo team's four straight trips to the Holiday Bowl as oneof the most impressive performances in college football Pointing out that people in PulIman know how difficult a job it is to win a conference and go toa bowl game. Walden said, “We want our team to applaud BYU for its outstanding performance in winning these four consecutive championships." The entire Washington State teamandparty, filling onehalfof the pavilion, stood and faced the BYUparty and clapped loudly and enthusiastically Tt was spontaneous and it was touching because it wassincere That also concluded Walden’s remarks and was the climax of the night Yesterday was a busy dayfor both teams. For coaches Edwards and Walden, BYU players McMahonand linebacker Kyle Whittingham and WSU quarterbacks Clete Casper and Ricky Turner it started with a 9:30 a.m. press brunch, This was an innovation. The brunch and press conference was held at the Town and Country Inn, was almost a formalaffair, featured the Holiday Bowl queen candidates including BYU's Michelle Smoot and a Dixieland jazz band that was almosta little too much that early in the morning. After the brunch the press conference was held with Walden and Edwards sharing the mike and answering questions. Then the players took over. The first question went to Walden who was asked which he thought would be the mostdifficult — to defense BYUor move the ball ‘I think the mostdifficult t for us will be to contain BY he said. “I think it will be much tougher to stop them than to make yards ourselves.”’ Asked the same question, Edwards said: ‘Our offense has played well every game, so I think we will movethe ball. Our defense played several games as well as any defensive unit we have had. But they've played a couple where they were down.” Someone commented about the past three games and asked the coaches if they felt this could match up. Edwards, naturally, answered this one, ‘Looking back Navy was probably the worst of the three gamesandit was moreexciting than most of the other bowl games, so all I can sayis I think it will be a great gameandit could go downto the last play again.” Edwards was asked about injuries and said, We havereally been hampered by them this year. We played Colorado the week after Washington State played them and we won the battle butlost the war. Both Brady were hurt badly, McMahon was lost for the next two games and center Bart Oatesdidn't get back until our final three games, But wefinished the season in fairly good shape.” The quarterback situation at both schools brought some ques- tions. Washington State employs a two-quarterback system using Casperas a starter and Turnerto spell him. Casper is known as a passer and Turner a runner, although each directs the same multiple offense. Will this give BYUspecialproblems? Edwards offered: ‘Both players doit all but each has special strengths. They present us a real challenge Wehaveto be readyfordifferent things with each of them, but at the same time know they do certain things as a specialty.” It wasn't mentioned but the Pullman Cougars also employ more trickery than the Provo Cougars. Walden was known as the Mississippi Gambler when he quarterbacked Wyoming in the late 1950s and he hasn't changed much. In WSU’s 24-21 upsetof the then unbeaten Arizona State team this fall, one of the biggest plays was trick play. Flanker Paul Escaleratooka pitch on the WSU 47 and fired'a 45-yard pass to Jeff Poppe who carried the ball all the way to the Sun Devil seven to set up a touchdown. In that game WSUalso used a fake PAT and passed for a two-point conversion. , AfterwardsI talked to Walden and reminded him of the 1958 Wyoming - BYUgamein which he used a fake quick-kick to pass for the winning touchdown “I rememberit well,” Walden said, Then he talked about his plans for defensing McMahon and BYU's passing gameFriday. “All quarterbacks rely on timing,” he said. ‘‘Like MeMahonexpectsto geta passoffin 8.1 seconds. Upset that timing and you might make him nervous and force a mistake. “We are not a blitzing team. I don't believe in the sack. How many times have you seen a team sack a quarterback, then have him get up and complete seven straight passes? It happensfrequently. What we want to do is apply steady pressure and let him know we're there all the time. We'll rush him, but it will not be a blitz. We want to have bodies within five yards of McMahonall the time and we don’t careif those bodies are his own teammates. We want him to see those bodies, not be able to find an open receiver, think maybeit’s time to get out of there, but have no place to go and no oneto throw to. When you put a quarterback in that situation he gets nervous. He starts to think he can throw to an area and maybehis receiver will cut and getto the ball, or he tries to force it wherehe can’t get it through.” Reminded that McMahon was intercepted only seven times in 423 attempts, an average of something like one in every 60 passes, Walden said: ‘Thatis the thing that worries me the most ‘Thatis a fantastic statistic. Over a season a quarterback who throws as much as McMahon should have that many intercep- tions just from balls that are deflected by his ownreceivers. I mean passes wherethe ball hits the receiverright in the hands or in the chest and bounce away and are intercepted. The fact that this isn’t true for McMahonis remarkable. But he doesn’t panic in situations I’ve described. He has a remarkable coolness. But most importantof all, he isn’t afraidto takea hit. Most quarterbacks donotlike to be hit. But McMahon's biggest asset might be the fact he is not afraid and will take a hit rather than throw a desperation passorjust get rid of the ball hoping someoneon his team will catchit."” That's what makes Friday night's game so exciting to anticipate. Can WashingtonState of the PAC-10 destroy the timing of the WAC's and NCAA's all-time premier passer? Can they make himnervousand antsy? Will they leave him no escape routes with a steady always present pressure? Or will the BYU receivers find free areas and will MeMahonsee themandgetthe ball to them enough times to give BYU a victory? Waldensaidthathefigures the number of times BYU's punte Mike Meesis called on to kick will be the key. “In looking at the films you never see the BYUpunter, If we never see him Friday we're in deep trouble. If we see himfive times, we'll beat BYU. That's exactly What he said |