| Show ilje JMt gala ©rilume Section 15 Friday September s No 30 1988 Fage For Recorded Scores Call Local 3 237-202- Call 5 Cougar Coach LaVell Edwards is aware of the Agges offensive weapons “They have as good a pair of receivers as you 11 find anywhere" said Edwards refer' think Kendal ring to Smith and New man Smith is one of the best til the country and Patrick Newman is not far behind There are few secrets surrounding this game among them: y Utah State will again attack through ) the air The Aggies have averaged only two yards per rush this season USU averages 280 yards a game m the air BYU ) will probably try to mix it up more Fullback Fred Whittingham averages 5 17 yards each times he carries the ball Quarterbacks Sean Covey and Ty Detmer have thrown for 1 013 yards an average of 338 yards per game y Defensively USU has been outscored 82 50 BYU has outscored its opponents 92 57 The Cougars have allowed 294 3 have dominated hi recent years BYU has won five straight and 11 of the last 13 Aggie Coach Chuck Shelton hopes this is the week his team puts together a complete game In losing to Nebraska (63 1 3 and Missouril35 21 and whipping New Mexico State (32 20 the Aggies have shown flashes of brilliance But not often enough ' Inconsistencies continue to haunt us a little bit" Shelton said We are young on defense and not very good but I hope they will be before rny contract is up Our pass rush is mediocre We are tough enough but not aggressive enough “Offensively I think we can move the ball In Smith and Newman its hard to imagine "having a better pair of receivers) Shelton tried to downplay the rivalry ' Right now all we want to do is play an other game before we get back into league action BYU is much better than Missouri 1 (1-2- (2-1- yards per game while USU has given up 493 7 yards y The emotional aspect Years ago this was a fiercely contested game For Aggie fans it s still the game of the year BYU has not looked at the rivalry as strongly as it once did Says Cougar tight end Dairen Handley: “No matter who we play we are the other team s big game of the year — Hawaii Utah Wyoming UTEP and the list goes on We have to maintain a consistent emotional level week after week " The momentum? It's certainly on the bide of BYU Although the Aggies still lead the series by a 32 28 3 edge the Cougars 3 Yanks Blitz Brazil Mecir Earns Gold 1 —Sports Capsule: American League Oakland 6 Minnesota 2 New York 5 Baltimore 1 Boston 12 Cleveland 0 Kansas City 7 Chicago 6 Seattle 5 Texas 1 Aig WiifTvtf National League v John Nelson AP Sports Writer SEOUL South Korea — Net gain for the UbA one silver and another shot at gold The U S men’s volleyball team incited to victory by America's basketball loss rolled into the final and Miloslav Mecir beat Tun Mayotte in the tennis final Friday at the Summer Olympics The undefeated U S men led by the spiking and blocking of Bob Ctvrtlik scored an 15-semifinal victory over easy 15-Brazil in a rematch of the gold medal game four years ago in Los Angeles ' Most of us used to play basketball and we Mt really horrible for them when they lost to the Soviets" Ctvrtlik said We didn t want to happen to us ' The U S men will meet either the Soviet Union or Argentina m the volleyball final ‘'uriday afternoon The Soviet Union meanwhile beat Yugoslavia 76 63 for the basketball gold giving the sov iet their 1 00th medal of the Games Mecir of Czechoslovakia beat the Amerifor the men s can Mayotte 3 6 6 2 6 4 angles gold medal the first awarded at the Games since 1924 in Pans Brad Gilbert of the i 'ruled States and Stefan Edberg of Sweden each won bronze Menr who beat the Edberg in 'he semifinals lost the first set in just 40 minutes but just as quickly turned it around He broke Mayotte in the first game of the second wt and begean running the American all over he court When it was over Mecir was the one running all over the court throwing his racket up in exultation over the biggest victory of his By Montreal Houston CD lu 4 vx CLBSJ 5:30 Reds n' gold-med- a -- B-- pm — Baseball Biases at C2) 10:30 pm — Olympics rM x ‘World of Speed Begins 'ps' £'K Special lo The Tribune WENDOVEK — The second annual World of Speed an invitational meet featuring 75 of the world s fastest cars including brothers Rick and Don Vesco wheel driven in pursuit of a world record will be held on the famed Bonneville Sail Flats Fridav through Monday Sponsored by Mainstay and the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association the sjieed runs begin at noon each day and run until dusk Admission ts $3 per person The Vesro Brothers of Brigham fit v will be after the Summers Brothers 1906 mark of 409 miles er hour for a wheel-drivecar They'll use a streamliner jiowered by two Chevrolet motors running on gasoline Also on the program will be Californians A1 Teague who ran 384 mph in the repent Bonneville Nationals and Nolan While who has done in excess of 360 mph Holland's 42 year-olFred Rompelberg will attempt to better the world bicycle record of 152 284 mph V d Ricks Throttles Kittens Special to The Tribune REXBURG Idaho — Ricks quarter back Brian Downey (brew four touch down passes here Thursday night to rout of the lead the Vikings to a 62-2Brigham Young Junior Varsity Downey completed 16 of 26 passes for 192 yards for the Vik'-- s who ran uj a 38 14 halftime lead and never looked back BYU quarterback Scott Shreeve had a big outing for the Kittens as he also threw for four TDs while completing 15 of 30 passes for 335 yards e 4-- 0 Pirates at — Olympics highlights C£) 5:30 pm — Olympics 1 -- am CU2 pm areer o 4 Cubs I o Atlanta — Olympics (WGNJ 12:15 pm — Baseball 6-- 2 In the 14th day of the Games the medal count looked like this Soviet Union 100 total 42 gold East Germany 85 total 33 gold and the United States 60 total 23 gold On Thursday Florence Griffith Joyner fulfilled predictions of “something unbelievable" breaking the 200 meter world record 'wife m two hours Two world records (wo gold medals and m not finished" Flo Jo said She and record smashing sister-in-laJackie Joyner-Kersehighlighted a day at the Games that belonged to the women The U S team won the basketball gold medal that the men couldn t and yet another tennis title was left to be decided by Steffi Graf and Gabnela s'abatmi boxers meanThe United States' can-dwhile had Americans wondering Can this be Montreal all over again’ This was called America's worst Olympic boxing team — no names no flash no chanre But US boxers already are assured of eight medals — one more than they won in '76 — and they 11 be going for six golds this wpek end one more than Montreal “Almost everybody said this team was not going to do well" Coach ' Ken Adams said We showed everyone up Especially Riddick Bowp the New York su oer heavyweight He took two standing and nearly didn’t make it through the first round but he stormed back for a unanimous decision over the Soviet Union's heavyweight champion of Bothell On Friday Tracie Wash a gold medalist four years ago won the liver in solo syrhromzed swimming behind Carolyn Waldo who gave Canada its only gold tnedai since sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped for steroids The heavily favored U S men's 1600-mete- r relay team was the fastest bv more than three seconds over Kenya in qualifying Friday The American men who have won the race 12 of the 16 times its been contested so far had a time of 3 02 16 America added to its gold count Thursday in freestyle wrestling when John Smith of Del City Okia outpointed Stephan Sarkissian of diviin the 136 the Soviet Union sion On Friday Kenny Monday of Tulsa Okla and Bruce Baumgartner of Edinboro matches Pa moved into In the semifinals Monday beat Pekka Rau-halat 163 pounds and Baumof Finland gartner stopped Ransoran Novind of Mauritius on a technical foul at 2 27 in the super heavyweight division Two British athletes meanwhile tested ioeitivp for drugs the British Olympic Committee confirmed Friday They came from (rack and field and judo bul the committee aid their names w ill not be released until the international Olympic Committee completes s hearing procedures perhaps by Saturday world tight athletes including “cord holder Bert Johnson of Canada linve Nee Column I 5 Chicago 4 5 TV Sports - 15-1- 100-mete- r 1 and they along with Nebraska are the best team at what they do that well see this “ year The Cougars are coming oH the fust of two bye weeks this season don t hke bye wet ks ' said "Ordinarily Edwaids ' but in this case it was good We had a chance to get some work done and have some people get healthy Following the Cougars' victory over UTEP running back Matt Bellini had arthroscopic knee surgery to repair minor damage Bellini returned to practice last Monday and Edwards said he is fully recovered Edwards said two of his injured plavers who have not seen playing time this year now are healthy and available “(Offensive guard Mohammed Klewon tbi and linebacker Alema Filisemanu are now ready but mav redshirt We 11 see how it goes" said Edwards US Volleyball Team Coasts into Finals 7-- 0 237-200- Longer 'Brent Who?’ as USU BYU Meet Bv Kav Herbat Tribune Sports A riter PKO O — Utah Stale quarterback Brent Snyder probably mil never forget the last time he challenged BV I s defence It w a 3 t riday night — (Jet 2 1987 Snyder now the Aggies' offensive leader with 60 completions in 104 thro - lor 818 yards and seven touchdowns used last year's game to ignite his promising career His passing kept the heat on the Cougars who could not breathe easily despite scor mg 45 points on the woeful USU defense Snyder had by far his best game ever that night He hit passes for 324 yards and three touchdowns Two scoring passes went to split end Kendal Smith and another to flanker Patrick Newman The Cougars and Aggies renew their long rivalry Friday at 7 05 p m m Cougar Stadium There will be no local live television i Sports Information —Assoc US outside hitter Steve Timmons the men s volley Brazil’s Andre Ferreira in semifinal match Friday in to earn berth In finals Seoul US won match bail MVP in the ’84 Olympics smashes the ball past 3-- 0 Marsh Finishes Sixth in Steeplechase Final Tribune Wire Services SEOUL — Henry Marsh didn't w in his coveted Olympic medal in his final competitive race here Friday But he can take something more valuable with him into retirement: the satis-faction of know ing he did the best he could Marsh the from Bountiful finished sixth in the r steeOlympic 3 plechase final at Olympic - 000-mete- Stadium Friday afternoon (late Thursday night in j Salt Lake City) in a time of 8 14 39 his best tune m two vears ' I m just really thrilled to finish that high in a very fast time" said Marsh in a post-ract lephonecall to The Tribune “I thought 8 14 e was about max for me I just dug dug dug 1 just gave it everything had I m glad to have run a real good time for me in my last race “ The race was won by Julius Kariuki of Kenya in an Olympic record time of 8 05 51 shattering the old record of 8 08 02 set in the 1976 Montreal Games by Sweden's Anders In fact silver medalist Peter Koech of Kenya and bronze medalist Mark Rowland of Great Britain also broke Garderud s record running 8 06 79 and 8 07 96 ret pectively Since all three medalists ran faster than the fastest time of Marsh s career his American record of 8 09 17 it stood to reason that the four-tunOlympian would not be able to keep such fast company “Mv strategy as 1 was meditating and visualizing this raep was to go out at about a 70 pace laps) which translates to 8 18 for the first half of race" said Marsh "and then hold on and after the first half of the race start pickirg them off " 1 Gar-deru- e pre-rac- But he knew he wasn t going lo pick off the top three at that pace Marsh finished in the s second pack of runners behind the three While he finished seven seconds away from a medal he was only two seconds out of another fourth place finish Fourth place went to Alessandro Lambrus-chm- i of Italy in 8 12 17 and fifth was William Van Dijck of Belgium in 8 13 99 Marsh beat all the others in the field including world champion Francesco Panetla of Italy who fir shed ninth The race marked the end of Marsh s distinguished competitive career as he had made it dear a'l along that he was not going to run beyond the 1988 Olympics Clearly he was delighted with the manner in which he finished Itc a very emotional day for me said ‘ Ma-- r' As I finished the race I kissed the track One of the reasons Marsh could feel satis med-absl- n ‘ faction was that his race contained none of t hr mishaps that have plagued him m other majoi races in his career such as the virus that cost him a medal at the 1984 Olympics (he colli sion with the final barrier at the 1983 World Championships the disqualification at the 1981 World Cup and ol course the boycott that kept him fiom competing in the 1989 Olympics That's what Marsh wanted a race in which he did his best and got what he earned He didn t feel that way after the 1981 Games when he finished fourth by a hair lo fellow American Brian Diemer and collapsed on the LA Coliseum track so fatigued was he by his virus He dedicated himself to 'rain for four more years to get on‘ las) shot at the Olympic modal he wanted “After 1984 when I should have won a medal my goal was In go out and go another four years and give it all I ve got " said Marsh ' And" if 1 gave it all I had then d let the chips Column See I R-- Padilla Comes Up Short in Bid for 5000 - Meter Finals Tribune Wire Services NEOUL — With only about 27 hours between races Orem's Doug Padilla just didn t have the kick in his semifinal heat of the men s Olympic 5000 meters As a result the Brigham Young University graduate exited the 1988 Olympic competition Thursday failing lo qualify for Satur- final day's Padilla who came lo American qualifier in 13 37 11 in the semifinals onds slower than the time n qualifier Sweden (13 25 25) Irorufallv s Korea as the top the 5000 ran a nearly 12 full secof the 15th and last Jonny Damelsson a 13 37 was good enough for Pa dilla to wm the 5000 at the U S Olympic Trials in Indianapolis in July over runnerupv Terry Biahm and Sydney Maree But the same time in this international field could only get him an overall 20th place in the semi finals counting the times in both heats Padilia who had advanced to the semifinals by easing to a 13 53 45 in his first heat Wednesday returned to the track Thursdav to run in Ileal 2 of the semis (there were 13 runnej-- in each of the two heals The top six in each heat would advance to (he final along with the next three fastest times Given th1 results of the fird h at in whit ti Italy s Nalvatore Antibo finished eighth with a time of 13 25 fit f’adilla knew he had to run about a 13 25 and finish in the top eight of his s i heat if he was going to advance to his second Olympic final But he just couldn t do it Padilla wound up 11th in his heat which was won bv Italy's Stefano Met in 13 24 20 The top seven runners in Heat 1 all topped Mpi's time led by Portugal s Domingos Castro tn 13 22 44 Maree the only American to ad vance lo the final was second in 13 22 61 The South Africa born Maree who d strong finishing kirk bv sprinting the final 100 meters for h's second place finish be hind Castro has now advanced two ste ps farther than he did in the 1984 Los Angeles Games Th Villanova product made the U N Olvmpir team in 1981 but could not compete because of an injury The memory of that has helped inspire him a Meanwhile Padilla who turns 32 next week wound up failing to mate h his 1984 per formanre At jos Angeles he qualified for the final and finished seventh in 13 23 36 af ter which he was quoted as sav ing Id hate to end a career like this in seventh place And he may not cnd his career in Seoul ei ther After all despite his failure in Ihc semi finals here 1988 has been a promising year for Padilla after lie all bul sacrificed 1989 and 1987 to his bouts with asthma This year he has gotten his asthma under control and as a result he earned his wav hack lo the f ilvmpics Prior lo coming to Seoul Padilla said of his future I wouldn t be surpnsed to go anothei four vears But vou nevei know ‘ A |
