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Show 2C October Saturday, ' The Salt Lake Tribune 984 20, Utah Puts Slim Title Hopes on Line at Hawaii signal-calle- Tribune Sports Writer HONOLULU The matchup mversity of Utah, a football team searching for more substance than a win one week, a loss or a tie another vs. University of Hawaii, a team on a e The principals Quarterback Mark Stevens of Utah, the nation s total offense producer and 10th quit. Sporadic, sparkling play has probably been as much the core of Utah's problems this seathat and sporadic, son as anything else lackluster play. Leads against Washington State. Wyoming and San Diego State have disin sipated and left Utah a collective those outings . in the WAC (Hawaii is Now at tolUtah's flickering WAC title hopes cannot against especially erate any spotty plav ' the likes of Cherrv Cherry w ill cause prob - 1 leading scorer and Hawaii . 28-1- three games, the Rainbows nimble flanker Walter Murray and freshman tailback Junior Lopati, who piepped at Highland High School m Salt Lake City The favorite: Utah by three points and that's taking into account Utah has failed to win in 10 consecutive road games. And what will it take for Utah to throw off the road game bugaboo that has plagued Coach Chuck Stobart throughout his L'teville tentins ure (3 wins, 14 losses and a tie year)0 winning streak Saturday night (1130 pm, MDT) in Aloha Stadium. The stakes- A third Western Athletic Conference win against a loss and a tie for Utah and a glimmer of hope for the conference title, for Hawaii, a fourth straight win to take more of the sting out of three straight losses to open the season. three-gam- lems every ume he handles the ball, Stobart said "We've got to contain him . keep him in the pocket 1 here will be a lot of pressure on our defensive ends Filipo Mokofisi and Ron Ketchoyian Cherry does have the propensity to make the big play "He got off a long TD pass last week at UTEP after scrambling out of the pocket," Stobart said. "We can't let that hap" pen and expect to win For the year. Cherry has 1.234 yards of1.059 of it by passing. Hes had only fense three interceptions and therein lies another strong point on this team. The 'Bows dont turn the ball over much with only three lost fumbles to go with the interceptions. By contrast, Utah has coughed up the ball 14 times effort, "It will take an intense, Stobart said Friday in an interview somewhere over the Pacific Ocean "Just look at last year ... we had them beaten at half. and they scored 15 points in the fourth quarter to make it close. They don't ever r Haphel Cherry, the nation's 19th best in total offense The supporting cast Ute split end Danny Huey who leads the W'AC in receptions (36) and freshman tailback Eddie Johnson who has averaged nearly 100 yards rushing his last By Dick Rosetta . (eight interceptions and six lost fumbles). "Whats going to determine our success," Stobart offered, "is scoring when we get good chances. We've got to finish off our opportunities. Huey, who had 10 catches for a school record 199 yards last week, stressed Friday that "We wont move away from our game plan. We intend to establish our running game, but look for Mark to get me the ball quite a bit. They have a secondary we can exploit if our line gives Mark a little time. While Hawaii has Cherry, Utah does have Stevens and the Dick Tomey-coache- d Rainbows will be to shut the senior Ute QB down. No one has yet in seven 1984 games. Stevens has 1,492 yards and 62 points hard-presse- d SUSC Hopes to Upset Favored Weber highly motivated to play because of the number of Utah players, especially several from the northern part of the state where Weber State is located Of the 55 players on the By R C. Roberg Tribune Sports Writer Weber State Coach OGDEN Mike Price has two adversaries to one ho can contend with Saturday control and the other he-- can't. First, there's the weather report of I snow flurries in , the afternoon and cold roster, 34 are from the Beehive State, including quarterbacks Bob Jones and Chad Richard. Jones is from Salt Lake City and Richard from Roosevelt. Punter Dave Elkins is from Sandy and linebacker Lee Thompson from - tempera- tures. That's some-- 1 thing Price will be '"'unable to change. A sy . - jl , YV x"- - ' llr bv Bob i Ogden 1 see a player like Lee Thompson on the squad from Ogden, and you tell me he doesn't want to beat us? He's going to be ready and theres going to be a lot of his partners ready to play us, too. said Price, who is searching for victory No. 21 in his four-yea- r Second, there's Southern Utah Hagedorn state College, ' looking for perhaps the biggest vic- tory in the schools football history. And Price isn't taking the lightly. He remembers all to vividly Y a."f . , Vl , i Vw T ' .s. what happened at Portland State, a Division II school. Weber State lost. Price readily admits he hates losing to schools in divisions below his. "I think playing Southern Utah State Cohege is good for the whole state because they have a lot cf Utah kids, said Price about his NAIA opponent prior to the 1 p m kickoff in Wildcat Stadium We can't overlook them. We re not good enough to overlook any body. We can t let this one slip by. We need a win, said Price. He said SUSC will be Y'' 'IF, UN's) - J. Trttxine Staff Photos bv Al Hortmonn Sam Milner struggles for more j ardage while Judges Marinac tries desperately to stop him in Friday battle. ;Mark ; Souths stint. Free is the only coach since Sark Arslanian to reach the plateau. Arslanian won 50 games in eight seasons. Price said his staff actively recruited Richard, who along with Jones, will be barking out the signals "I at quarterback for the thought h Richard was going to come to Weber State, but at the last minute he decided to play at Sl'SC. "I just don't know how he's going to react to a starting role as a freshman. That might help us a little bit. He's a Judge Comes Through Again :With Another Pulsating Win ; By Tom Wharton Tribune Sports Writer As the high school football season wijids to a close each year. Judge football opponents should take to wearing garlic around their necks, fear leaf clovers inside their shoes apd begin lining up with their fingers crossed behind their back. That's because, when a big game is on- - the line, the Bulldogs somehow come through with a victory. ; They did it again Friday at Jordan High School by capturing a overtime victory over South It was v Judges second straight and the second time in three games the Bulldogs won a game on thf last play of the game Jts getting so teams just aren't quite certain what they have to do late in the season against Judge, which seems intent on coming from nowhere for the second straight year toin the Class football championship In a game moved to Jordan High eairly Friday because of unplayable conditions at South. Judge frittered '- 14-1- 3 one-poi- 3-- Citien Oxici Become Toma Ovici, OMAHA. Neb (A Pi a former member cf the Romanian Deyis Cup team who defected to the Uhited States 8li years ago. has become a U S. citizen Ovici joined his wife. Carmen, and 44 others who became l'S citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the,Federal Court Building Thur-da- v back. "Our quarterbacks compliment arother very well. I dont have any fears about changing quarterbacks m the middle of a game. will have to He said the game to have any play an error-fre- e chance at beating Weber State. "This will be a tough game for us, and we want to do well. Weber State is a tough bunch and very physical. "We want to concentrate on the things we do best, and allow our northern Utah kids a chance to show what they're capable of. Well do our best and let the chips fall where they may, he added. Weber State, meanwhile, is coming 7 off a upset of Idaho. Junior quarterback Dave Stireman rallied the Wildcats in the second half and is expected to be back at the controls again, despite spraining an ankle in practice this week. Kevin Villars, who started the first seven games for the Wildcats, has recovered from a knee strain . Tight end Craig Slama has caught 30 passes for 269 yards and four touchdowns. Punter Bob Hagedorn is averaging 44 4 yard a kick, second in the nation in Division Montana State's Dirk Nelson leads with a 44 5 average. yards one and a touchdown. Richard is 8 of 16 for 65 yards and a touchdown. Each has been intercepted twice. Richard 3 was at the helm in SUSCs Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference victory last week over Southern Colo17-1- rado. Juan Henderson is the leading rusher and pass receiver. Henderson has run for 437 yards, averaging 72 8 a game. He has caught 12 passes for 106 yards and a touchdown. Elkins is netting nearly 40 yards a punt. SUSC Coach Don Conrad feels the Southern Colorado win helped eliminate some of the inconsistency the had shown in their first five 40-3- games. "We had our seniors step forward as leaders, and they turned in some big plays that helped pull us together. It helped us make a big step toward the intensity and discipline we've lacked at times. We really pulled together to win. Now he s hoping the same impetus will carry over against the Wildcats. "Theyre a good team." he said about the 4 Wildcats "They're better than anyone weve faced or will face." 3-- By Joe Baird Tribune Sports Writer MAGNA If you must ask. the answer is no. The Highland Rams were not looking ahead to next week's clash with undefeated Davis in their tougher than expected 23-- victory over East here Friday afternoon At least not to hear Highland Coach Roger DuPaix tell it The Ram Coach emphu zed that, for one thing. Highland-Eas- t is traditionally a big grudge game for even in a year like this in which East both schools occupies the Region Four cellar. He further pointed out that the stakes w ere just too high for his team to be thinking of anything but the Leopards. "We knew if we won today we would get into the playeffs. the Ram coach explained "And that was all we needed to know The kids felt like it was a game " they couldn't afford to lose So what transpired on the reasonably dry Cyprus ILgh field the contest was finally played in Magna after several location shifts because of the snow) was d really a typical outing Plenty of emotion and hard hitting, and a surprisingly large crowd that followed the two teams out west for the contest. And were it not for more of the bad breaks that seem to be dogging East throughout this season, the Leopards might have made a real go of it It was not to be, however A first period interception of a Dave Marriott pass by Highland s Matt Anderson quickly set the Rams up for their first score of the with Anderson rambling down to the East game rune w.th his prize, and Ram quarterback Mike Pembroke cashing n on third down when he rolled out and found Cary Jenkins m the end zone for a lead with the PAT Tne Leopard.' roared back early m the second period wTh a drive that took them to the Highland 11 But after two dropped passes in the end zone, East was d 3 1 2 Ram-Leopar- 3-- quick backs were emotionally pysched out by the wet field But we're really close to be mg where we want to be And that means watch for Judge to win the close ones down me stretch, '" wing what just like last yeacharacter and great a : t.on can do in the clutch 7-- 0 y t.-- i passes 154 al 0 ju-ri- five games for in Rams Batter Arch-RivEast, 23-Now Await Showdown With Davis first one. I was just lucky enough to get a second chance." And thus Judge, which took a lead m the first half on a run by Greg Hoffman and then watched South tie it on a pass from Mike Caputo to Sam Milner, finds itself right back in the state tournament picture after starting its season with home losses to lowly Tooele and Murray. Now, with Judge at West. South at Murray and Tooele at Jordan, the wild and wacky Region Six season will come to an interesting conclusion next Thursday The Beetdiggers, with a record, appear to have all but locked up the title while Tooele, would need to upset Jordan to at have a shot But Judge, South. West and Murray are all and one of these teams will have to stay home The way Judge is playing, bet that the Bulldogs will be back to defend their championship and live up to their early season billing as one of the state's top three clubs "When it comes down to having to do it to win. we do it." said Bulldog Coach Frank L'Etoile ' We re getting close to where we thought we'd be. but I haven t seen our explosiveness yet on offence I think some of our away scoring opportunity after scoring opportunity in the second half, allowed South an easy overtime touchdown when Mike Caputo found Tony Taliauli on first down from the 10 and then, amazingly, blocked the Cubs extra point attempt. Even then, nothing was certain After all, early in the second half. South had kept Judge from scoring when the Bulldogs had the ball first and goal at the two Those who have followed Judge over the past two seasons and there are seven starters on this team off last season s surprising championshould have known they ship club had nothing to worry about when Paul Pazell took advantage of a bob-ble- d snap to block South s extra point attempt in the overtime. The Bulldogs, who won the coin flip m overtime cf course) and elected to go on offense last, then went to work startTony Cordova, the three-yea- r ing quarterback playing in his first game at that position since early in the season when he broke his throwing arm, raced five yards on the f.pu play Todd Paluso took it to the one and Bill Batt tied it at 13 with a dive. Then, as it has the past two weeks, the game came down to whether Judge kicker Kelly Terrill could connect on a kick On a sloppy field and on a day when Terrill had missed an earlier field gnl, that b t was not a sure thing by any mean.' hut the kicker made it lock usy 'I still have to think about the kickc" sm.led Terrill. ' be1 I v anted th ' one ally after I r.i.ed the Conrad said he will probably alternate Jones and Richard at quarter- good athlete and anything can happen in the game of football. Jones has completed 10 of 43 3; forced to settle for a field goal by Brett Ste- phans. Highland, which had gone to the air early and often in the first half out of its w ishbone offense, got back to basics after intermission. The Rams kept it on the ground every play on that first second-hal- f drive, and went 50 yards with the new approach. But Highland was stuffed' on 4th and goal at the one by a fired-uLeopard defense. An opportunistic Ram defense then hit Marriott for a safety as he roiled out in the end zone three plays later, and capped another grind-i- t out drive on their on a ensuing possession when Pembroke took it in 16. the from keeper "We changed our blocking just a little bit at the half and that helped." DuPaix said of the change in tactics. "Plus we wanted to come out and establish the run. We threw too much in the first half. p Down 16-- 3 and on the ropes, the Leopards responded to their situation with some gusto Led by the gutty Marriott, they put together a drive that was keyed by a toss to Stephans on the right sideline After a first and 10 from the 12, however, the drive stalled and fell short at the Highland two yard line The Rams then marched on their next series and deflated East for good, as Pembroke (127 yards rushing and 75 yards through the air on 8 keeper and Robert Lopassing) got loose on a pez sprinted into the end zone untouched on an end 4-- around For Leopard Coach Jay Vesterfelt. it was more of the same in another loss. "The thing that's hurt us all year is our own mental mistakes," he said of his team, which dropped to 4 in league play with the defeat "We had a couple fumbles and some key penalties. and in the second half it was a matter of execution at the proper time If we had scored on the two, the complexion of the game could have turned around. hard-foug- 0-- Kimball Continues Strange Career as USU Battles Fresno State By Steve " Lor.--Trib- Sports u rm FRESNO. Cal. f - Tja n football has. in urdcr beer and-dow- 1). An ..-I- ll thing quarterback out of Skv line Rich School in Salt Lake Who became frustrated with his '. Sieve Young s.nie '! I'.vi-- I , Km c e Gvm Kimball ( -- r - -- i i give I car. r cc:.t r la't year no-- de Hmean w h I 1 v . tj 0k r" o . ' a d 1 a r,rJ.- i w i.-- g hi gt with three straight ."t-In the sreond half of areer. ( I z , j 8' tah a ga n.'t ' - 1. a I w t work j r ,'f t r ; i fV. : i' I. r ( Pa, . t i;.t m :h 1 U it 'h w 1)o t - r w M h t . an m ord g an.e G rton and 1 Uj. pa'-e- s in '' d 7' much '! m ght ' pr-- . . ." 0' , 4 A So K.r, hall struggled along, with the ear problem finally beirg diagnosed u.na correced surgically this spring He r turned for h:s sen. or season with hope that things would be bettc r n though had taken over the No quarterback job in spring practice. and Nitzel pla' ed well enough to get the No 2 d .(.i ltion Samuels Ip-e- 1 wa there every 'imply because Cay during the spr.rg was No 3 That I tan 'ta'e ' fourth-strinleit Kir bail quarter!.. o. I'.or.rg '!e 't.t- - i n at i" . - j' son As you m.g.ht t ;.ee t hie didn t play against USC or TCU But the bottom 'ell out for KiPibull wh n he was left off the traveling qujJ Ft the Sept 15 game at Cal Fullerton ' I didn 1 now what to do. Kimball 'aid '1 Cdot'd h n.e and aked my n.om and da d Wi.at i'oJ jor.owMo I come home' I" l.a'g it up ; dal ',nd to Thankfully :... n ..p 't.iv Tm . 'a d o.t, .rg good eve; 1 Too mmv ! v .! hav. had 'oimi.br. g to do w,;r. K.m ha ' lull,,.! Imp a' boh '".it. hi.; n w . ' anoTi-- r ' - t ,Uor-: 1 to trunk wrong j'Ineern nre' t.on'-- ' .p. r. t : og,,', r pla.ed Te 't j the third game agair.M M.S'oi.ri ( hi co came ,n did a g'Kid job and he ltayed there Me0 1 didn t know whit ' .. to d lae !., comp!it-d- . i ' I I r. 0 'he f t 5 ia't 'eond lo's . Mki. Thing' were goi-- g ; a f Kimball ytar c h udtd up in a hurry I ii'i n a 't thing' i : u a!','. T," ;Ti t 1 . 'i . went down with a knee injury N.tzel had already shifted tu defense ar.d Samuels was home because of cl. s' iplmary reasons Kimball got the bc-e-n cad ' W h- terctf AtB'iU T.ugt :r ,r g' didn f r K.mb w h., ; 2 : wt,l and started the : par!0 ."I g n f.o pe.: son - , u..rd K.mhi ht- r i va.-ra-- d and put m Chico (Ur, m - w: . It,.- . game - ,,d g .:) w.ri' to a I and this i' fu.',"v to have r,.g: Tt art - ah"1.! goirg J . f r t r" ar,J laving i 0 ( 'o i y k isk. h.s ... d a ,rJ Hi. - J f and ' cuse - in- getting under the heays But I didn t want to started 'ay an. Thing I d.dr. t want to blame anyone or anything I wanted no ex- s a.r i r 1 H . i Ifc. i r mr t ... o.j r a'td 1 ink th it's ' ' c Tit r i ,if:i. ! c r g r War-- i.n.e - -, w u . f.f :.e . r !o the first three game' Ag(6i And finding himself a' rt g.es No 4 quartirbac k at tfa this season. aga (7), But who is now No ter an injury to Ma'.r Bran 1; the sw itc h of N j 2 qu irtt rbac n h N.tzd to defco'e ard n .re dis k ary action to No 3 quarUrbai flfe, e a r ' tb J t .t.ri ' of hope for the f ied it w as t me i j pc 1 u' vae , c.jn Id s m- - ! ' Tr-- Gym explained t-- ' la'i r ' G .i n .or ' o U 1 0 ai ' Utr a 1. Sam If fru'tr.-t.ar- a.nd. ui.rv r ju't I1 , Ar.d tramferred i where he was tne No at Lhe start of 1583 i5l. Before going to th i.4 eT and N ' fackup mle to a- K had a he ! ' s and fortune 3 !Ai - d liut r.ow ,t , City. i2.. Who enrolled at BYU with of fame ait aioT.' : A ur"-Kimba- ah rx Kimball t ! me Seeping tTa( t r a "C -- . 1 i oi g bo I : , hen Brad got hurt I had my helmet off" Gym said "And I couldnt f.nd it I thought. 'Oh. no. Wait a minfind it ' I panicked for a minute ute, and for awhile, 1 was nervous But then things came together a little and I think I played fairly well " 1 ' lOsS La.'t week against Long Beach, in h.s firT start of the season. Kimball also played well He completed 17 of 35 passes for 181 yards and a touch-d- : wn on a cold, windy, rainy day at Romney Stadium I was worried before the game half against that rr.ayte the San Jose had been a fluke," Gym said But I felt the same way Against Long Beach, I felt in control." The Agg:es. however, lost to the 43ers. 24 22 It was their fifth straight loss K.mhall, though, is hopeful the Agg.is can break out of their slump agj.rnt Fricno Saturday at 8 30 p m MDT ' 7 . b Kimball knows all about it. And the hope their quarterback is right. Aggies 11 Kimball did. earning praise from Pella as our bright spot ' during the t quit, because you never know what will happen A lot of times, just when things seem worst, something good will happen" i a K I.j II h mb. i I' tuu 'aid rin'ilot .) out Y"u ; n nor h! G AME NOTES: Fresno is 0 in the PCAA The Bulldogs only loss was a defeat et Hawaii. In that one, Fresno led 0 at halftime. Utah State is 5 overall, in the PCAA . A capacity crowd of 30,000 is ex5-- 27-1- 9-- 0-- 0-- 3 . pected . Utah State has lost five straight games dn the road, and 12 of us last 13 Freshman free safety Darrin Long won t make the trip because of a back injury. Strong safety Bill Beauford will move to free safety with backup cornerback Dwight Storay moving into the starting lineThe Ags curup at strong safety rently rank last in the PCAA in total offense, scoring offense, total defense. ru$Mng defense and scoring defense . Fresnos m rst impressive win this Vear was a season-openin- g Pella's victory at Arizona record in 1G seasons at Utah State is now overall. 6 in the PCAA, on the r.;d an V in ICAA I games . . . . . ... . . 27-2- . 1 . . 3-- r'l |