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Show I I SUN CHRONICLE, March 17, 1979, Page 17 - by Keith Duncan Hie Weber State Suoercats as they are recently called, enjoyed another highly successful handball year under fifth year head coach, Neil McCarthy. Weber States cage campaign came to an end last Sunday out in the plains of Kansas. The Wildcats were comin the second round of the peting NCAA playoffs but they found the Arkansas Razorbacks to be a little more sharper that day. Arkansas finished their conference play by being ranked sixth in the nation. They came into last weekends game with a record Weber State had fought its way into al 23-- 4 the second round of the NCAA playoffs hv rlinnine New Mexico in over- time, That 81-7- ictory was McCarthy s 90th collegiate win and his first NCAA playoff win ever. Local fans and followers can be proud of their team and their accomplishments. They certainly didnt let anyone down. Next season, well be' on paper, it doesnt look too bad. The team will lose the services of Kurt Moore and Ben Howland to graduation, but the rest of the 1978-7- 9 Supercats come back for another season together. Here is a short glance at their coach and each one of the players who had such a great year. Coach Neil McCarthy In basketball, as in baseball, a twenty-gam- e winner is something special. There are winners and there are twenty-gam- e winners. Neil McCarthy, the head coach of the Weber State Wildcats, is definitely the do honored freshman to come to Weber State . . . was the CIF Player-of-th- e year last season in San Diego area . . . broke the league scoring record set by Bill Walton when he was in high school . . . averaged 24 per game last year, with a high game of 53. Has seen regular action with the Cats this year, playing in all but four games, and starting once . . . averaging just a shade over 13 minutes per game . . . called by Coach McCarthy the best pure shooter ever at Weber, Todd has the green light to shoot whereven and whenever he from chooses hit Long Range in last weeks Tournament opener to break the game open. FRED WILLIAMS A very promising prospect this ... three-in-a-ro- w year, Williams has had limited ... he playing time with the varsity has enjoyed a fine season with the junior varsity at the school, and is presently carrying a 12 point scoring average . . . Fred is the quickest member of the Weber State team. . At Banning HS in Los Angeles he showed good floor leadership, and developed the passing skills that made him the league assist leader for two years he plays tough defense the way the Wildcats do, and was ... named Outstanding Defensive Player at last summers Superstars ... he is busy Camp in Los Angeles making the transition from prep to major college, and should make some significant contributions when he becomes comfortable the with system. latter. With ten years as a head coach, at both the high school and collegiate level, McCarthy is definitely a His career total is 213-9As a collegiate head coach, his four squads have rolled up an 7 mark. impressive Such achievements are certainly no accident. Hie hallmarks of McCarthy-coache- d teams are discipline, intelligence, and teamwork. There is no freelancing on either offense or selection is a defense, and shot priority item. You can bet that the Wildcats will come at their op-- , ponents with an outstanding defense one that has been nationally ranked all season for proficiency in opponents field goal percentage. A native Californian, McCarthy graduated from St. Vincents High and Vallejo Junior College. Pesides being a standout basketball player at each school, he was also an honor student, newspaper editor, and a participant in other sports. Moving on to Cal he again earned honors on the court and in the classroom. He was an allleague selection as a player and a Deans list member as a student. Following graduation he continued on and obtained a Masters Degree. His it dealt Thesis project is significant with an improved method of shooting free throws. McCarthy came to Weber State in 1971 as an assistant coach, and took over midway through the 1975 camthe only losing season in the paign schools history. Last year he was in the named the conference. Bruce Collins 4. full-seas- 84-3- State-Sacramen- to Coach-of-the-Ye- the best pressure players in is the history of the school e presently the number three scorer in Weber State history, is fourth on the rebounding books . . . has earned Conference honors six times, was on the squad last year, has been ... One of all-tim- Player-of-the-Wee- k named Conference Tournament MVP the last two seasons. Collins was MVP in the state of Wyoming his senior year, and led his high school to a state championship. Since enrolling at Weber State he has started every game . . . made a switch from forward to guard this season . . . team named to the Classic. this year in the Richard Smith Just may be the hardest working big the continuous man in the country and impressive improvement he has shown is a tribute to his aggressive nature and willingness to pay ther e is currently number 15 price e in is tenth WSC scorer . named to . . stats rebounding team the Conference each of the last two seasons. lived Knew Collins in high school just a few miles away, but competed his high in a different league school also won state title . . . likes to work with his hands and enjoys the outdoors. ... ... all-tim- ... all-tim- ... GERALD MATTINSON Mattinson is one of the top candidates for the Pig Sky Conference . . . Sixth Man award this season the on in usually the first reserve slightly is Gerald averaging front line, me per over 16 minutes playing he game ... a very rugged rebounder, with this year has had three games over ten boards. Gerald played high school ball with Bruce Collins, and followed in his after footsteps as MVP of Wyoming . . was also an . Bruce had graduated football player as a prep . . . earned 1st team junior college honors last season at . Casper Jr. College (Wyoming) JC . . district MVP of his J.C. team . . . National Tourney all-stto play with passed up second year Weber. TODD HARPER is perhaps the most highly all-sta- te Harper MIKE KILGORE Mike comes back to the Wildcats after sitting out two years as a Mormon Missionary . . . during the 1976 season he saw extensive action as a freshman when injured all but he has wiped out the guard line been playing extensively with the junior varsity this season to get back into basketball. Currently with the Wildkittens he is carrying a 19.5 scoring average, with three games over 30 points a good rebounding guard, he also moves well toward the basket . . . still a crisp his brother passer after his layoff is baseball coach at the University of Utah. ... ... ... David Johnson Johnson can do everything except gain weight . . , his selnder stature belies unbelievable mental and led the team in physical toughness ... e fouls last season . . . eleventh scorer' at the school. David grew late, played a lot of backcourt in high school, as a result is all-tim- a much ball better-than-avera- handler . . . devastating perimeter shooter . . . saw action mostly with the junior varsity his freshman season has and averaged nearly 24 ppg earned a starting berth since; sophomore season . . . had nine points and six rebounds in NCAA game vs Arkansas last season . . . named first-teain Conference this 3.26 GPA. with year ... m KURT MOORE One of only two seniors, and the only four-yeman on the team . . . Moore has developed excellent team skills to complement some awesome athletic one of the most error-fre- e ability the team, he is cool and on players poised . . . was a sixth man last year, but his maturity has made him a valuable starter this season. the home town High school crowds were delighted he stayed at he is one of the most Weber popular Wildcats ever . . . besides basketball, he is also a collegiate-qualif- y golfer and baseball player. ar ... all-stat- e, ... MARK MATTOS e Weber State Already the assist leader, almost every pass adds to the total . . . Mattos has been cocaptain of the team for the last two seasons . . . was honorable mention as a freshman, when he set a league assist standard . . . broken bone last year sidelined him for practices and the first eight games . . . rebroke the same bone (in the left hand) again this year, but got back quicker. Best grade-poiaverage (3.86) on team . . . the Big Sky very intelligent player, runs the team well . . . with the three high scorer's on the squad this season Mark shoots less, places more emphasis on being the general. BEN HOWLAND Howland is a fine athlete who can either run the team at the point or shoot as the trigger guard . . . went 3 last week in the Big Sky Conference Tournament . . . excellent defensive player, will usually draw the shooting guard. Ben starred at Santa Barbara all-tim- pre-seas- nt 11-1- Community College, was instrumental in leading team to a record and second place state finish was all CIF at Cerritos High School in the Los Angeles area . . . Ben is one of 31-- 4 , Walleye spawning The annual walleye spawning runs at Utah Lake and Willard Bay wont acbe occurring until after to of Division Wildlife cording Resources personnel. Both waters are thick with ice except arcur a few ice-ou-t, inlets. TOY just two seniors on the Wildcat roster this season. ON THE BALL WITH BLISS I volunteered to haul five Roy wrestlers to an elementary wrestling tournament held last Saturday in old Orem. Hundreds of 5 to state the of all from parts youngsters and one team from Albuquerque, New Mexico came to the invitational tourney. The tournament was an to me. I never realized that communities had such programs for youngsters in beginning wrestling. I have been impressed with the program organized by Roy Recreation, but it is nothing, com-pare- d eye-open- well-organiz- to what has been going on in communities, such as Vernal, Roosevelt, Brighton, Heber, Pleasant Grove and Orem, not to mention Albuquerque, New Mexico. Uintah High School is located in Vernal and has about 800 students in the upper three grades. Vernal has a wrestling program involving 250 kids under the age of 12. A typical old boy from that small town has six or seven years of wrestling experience. Many of the boys follow in the footsteps of their big brothers and get private tutoring at home as well. Brighton High School finished first in wrestling in the high school 4A ranks. The community has 65 elementary kids working in the wrestling program, and they are Fourteen of the young men were in Orem, Friday, but the cream of their crop was attending an A.A.U. sponsored tournament in Morgan. The e Brighton Community hires a coach to teach its younsters, and he has specialists come in to assist. The local high school coach, Don Knapp organized the program, and is instrumental in the training criteria. Former W.A.C. Wrestling champion Mark Sanderson of Pleasant Grove, wrestled in the 134 pound class at in 1975. Sanderson now B.Y.Ue works with young wrestlers from both Pleasant Grove and Orem. In Orem, over 400 kids showed up at its wrestling clinic, and are getting instructions in the finer arts of the sport. From the group, the Orem wel-traine- d. full-tim- leadersof Recreation a Sfcera Club, comprised organized 15 or 20 of the most promising youngsters in Orem. Mark Sanderson is coach of the group, and is forming them into an elite fighting team which is entered into many tournaments. Albuquerque is a city of over 400,000 inhabitants. Under the directions of another BYU wrestling champion, the New Mexico city has been working with 400 or 500 youngsters in wrestling clinics. A team of 10 boys was at the Orem Invitational, and five of them won first-plac- e trophies in their various age and weight groups Those kids have been wrestling since they were about five years old, and it showed in their skills on the mats. I took my own seven and eight year old sons to the clinic, and they were defeated in four out of five matches. This is their first year in wrestling, and I had been pleased with the progress they were making, but the kids they wrested had two and three years of specialized training. I also took old Mike Talbot, who is in his first year of wrestling; 11 year old Billy Lambros, who is in his third year, and Tony Mather who also has two previous years of wrestling experience. Lambros, who weighed in at 65 pounds finished third in the tournament, and won five of his eight matches. Talbot and Mather each wrestled six times and won four of their matches, but did not place in the top four. They were defeated by veteran wrestlers with many more years behind them. Roy Recreation has taken a step in the right direction to further wrestling in our community, but much more must be done to put us on an equal footing with the likes of Uintah, Brighton, Orem, Pleasant Grove, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.. The Weber School District is also an obstacle to wrestling in our schools. The administrators, in their efforts to conserve money, will not allocate funds for wrestling in the junior high schools. Coaches like Ryley Summers are expected to begin with incoming sophomore talent, and compete effectively against schools that have veterans, including inter-schocompetition through the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. W: M A baby boy arrived at St Hospital on March 5 to Steven and Sandra Bowles, who live at 5516 S. 2800 West Josie Nielsen has been admitted as a patient at J:u Weber Memorial Hospital Jack and Bobbie Thomas were in Kansas last week to attend the Weber State College Basketball games at fl'ijl jb,'. the NCAA tournament Victor and Marlene Larsen L had a baby girl Feb. 23 at ' North Davis Medical Center. They live at 2134 W. 5025 S. 'I ji Miss Charlene Lewis, who was married on March 3, to David Hansen, of Kearns, was honored with two bridal showers, prior to her wedding. Girls in the Laurel Class of the Young Womens Mutual of the Eighth ward, ' gave a miscellaneous shower at the home of Dana Buxton, and Jana and Candy Jacobs, sisters-in-lagave a shower at the home of Jana Jacobs, with relatives attending. Kenneth Glen Burnett Jr., 33, who died at his home in Ogden on March 9, after a long illness, was the grandson of Mrs. Claudia Burnett of Roy. He was an active member of the LDS Church and had been employed by Mountain Fuel Supply. Funeral services were held On Tuesday in Ogden. It was a boy for Robert and Gale Taylor of 1952 W. 4335 S. The new baby arrived at St. Benedict's recreational program, and because after some athletes will develop enrolling as sophomores, but the Royals will still be fighting with one hand behind their back, because of the apparent apathy of the Weber County School District. Our wrestling coaches are striving hard to build a sound wrestling program in Roy, but it takes time. If we were to capture the fancy of 500 aspiring young athletes, interested in beginning elementary school wrestling, Roy would in time become but it will a wrestling strong-holtake more of an effort than our community is now exhibiting. 1 W Mi mamm 4 - 6 Ft. Salad 1 1 FIAT TOP CEDAR 1 4 x 6 - 4 1 Stand Ft & Better TOP CEDAR FLAT lf imwwf 3 6 Ft m FLAT TOP CEDAR I x 6 6 Ft Stand & Better DOG EAR FENCE CEDAR 6 - 6 Ft k 3 PECKY CEDAR 12 1 - 6 m? Ft PECKY CEDAR V- WT1 - I1 2 Iimm 4 Ft. 6,491 lx 8 Ft. 2,94 6 ft. louglt common I x 4 - 6 Ft. x 4 Vi GAUGE SO Ft. Rolls 14 98 5 lo29 U 25o95 Ft. Ft. Ft. 32.95 37.95 j 6 Ft. 4 Ft. 29 169 tey r I OVER SO TYPES OF PANEL! NO TO CHOOSE MOLDINGS AND FROM LARGEST QUANTITY AND COLORED NAILS VARIE1Y IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. TIGER EYE COPPER Simulated finish MONOWALL GREEN 1 , ., 316x4x8 .1 .jrcde simulated on lauan plywood Inunn plywood $4 49 $649 ,(! RIDGECREST BIRCH 1 st grade. 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Wesley Thompson has also ; It (tS3i 4 t & ft - Wolkor Bonkord Matter CSorgo Bank Cord Open 9 a m. to 7 p m - teriha'vn 9 1 555 Writ 3500 South (I Block Bo$t of Redwood ftd ) OPEN BUNPAYB 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. far a.t'r I (! 11 4 i ; HL '! ! j I PANtlINO KINGS " Vise Card been released from the hospital, where she has been i CHRIS & DICK'S attack. has - - -- mmm Tyjorld U f'Z'V Gleed Nebeker is in the hospital following a heart surgery. tunu,r !. Gar- been released from the ;; fife Hospital. They hospital and is recuperating at home following open heart Hi 37" Miller diner of 4339 S. 3050 W., are parents of a baby girl, born March 12 at McKay Dee Hospital. Mrs. Gardiner is the former Tonja Samson. Marilyn '? II Jimmie and Marilyn Slater are parents of a baby boy, born March 11 at Christensen jtJjini FIREPLACE & STOVES W. live at 5086 S. 2500 W. Mr. and Mrs. Don 4 Jlf j ODD & END CABINETS Save 60 V Vlf iffir ,'L'j! Mr. and Mrs. Evan Racker were here for the weekend to visit with Mr. Rackers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Racker. The young couple lives in St. George. Carl and Relda Busboom have a baby girl born March 11 at McKay-De- e Hospital Their home is at 3787 S. 2275 ,( fc SUPPLIES t M J. 1st UUKS J f tr i Wkpfc 3 S. e jiXf jT;' Grade $5 49 away about two weeks. Ruth LoBel has been released from the hospital, after a long stay and is reported to be somewhat improved. A baby boy arrived at McKay-De- e Hospital on March 9 to Ronald and Brenda Moss, of 2110 W. 3950 Mr. and Mrs. Dom Antonietti have just returned from a three weeks trip by car, to Tennessee. They went to visit with their daughter Jana and her husband, Brett Crezee and their four daughters. Brett is employed in Memphis with IRS. The Antoniettis also drove down to Panama City and Pensacola, Florida for some sightseeing before returning home. V 1 1 1 are parents and the Ballet Folklorico as well as the Floating Gardens. They found the ruins in the Yucatan area to be an interesting area. They were 1 GRAPE STAKES on fight, 6 V CHAIN LINK 8 4-- itl&j ,r 4x4-- Mr. and Mrs. Parley 2965 W. 4800 S., 8 Ft 8 Ft 4 4 1 March 9. Bob and Sandy Larose and family spent a few days last week in the Vernal area, visiting with relatives. fU,. Oleson and Mr. and Mrs. Golden Oleson have been in Oregon to attend the funeral services for a sister of the Olesons. Steve and Kathy Russell of - CEDAR 1 w Hospital 4 ft---- , REDWOOi 4 Benedicts w. o 1 CEDAR t 4 8 Ft. PECKY CEDAR WmmS McKay-De- Roy High School will come up with a few good wrestlers, because of its CEDAR DOG EAR SPRUCE x 4 6 Ft Combed 1 Stained FLAT TOP CEDAR IV : |