Show 18 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday May 3 1981 USU 9 wins two of four tilts By Michael Reberg tied for the conference lead USU was shocked by the sports writer 1-- loss 0 at the hands of now OGDEN — Weber State College’s Tammie Williams is somewhat unassuming when she's on the pitcher's mound Consider the fact that she apologizes when she hits an opposing batter But also consider she's very effective in that easy style Utah State University looking for an outright Intermountain Conference championship found that out Saturday Williams lulled the defending AIAW national champions with pinpoint control and an amazing pitch to spoil the Aggies' apparent conference title The Wildcats bounced back from a 0 defeat in the first game of a in doubleheader to down USU Saturday’s second game The Aggies after happily splitting with conference power Utah needed two wins Friday (2-- 1 to claim the crown outright After Friday the Aggies were 1 one game ahead of Utah's 10--2 record Saturday after being surprised by the Wildcats the Aggies were 7-- 7 (conference) Wildcats Earlier in the season the Aggies took two games from the Wildcats in Smithfield And after easily winning the first game Saturday they figured four straight wins were in the bag USU didn’t realize the Wildcats were on a tear winning 10 consecutive games before the when weekend They had been they met them in Smithfield The Wildcats however knew 3-- what was going down “We thought we could take both games or at least one" said WSC Coach Jane Thornock after Saturday's split “I think they thought they were going to beat us But I knew if we played Weber State softball we could win’’ And WSC softball includes Williams After capitalizing on Wildcat errors in game one (only two of the Aggies’ six runs were earned) for the win the Aggies came up against the Wildcat sophomore in the second game She didn’t overpower the Aggie off-spe- ed 6-- 1-- 0 1-- 4) 11-- bats unlike her mound counterpart Mary Lou Ramm she just puts them to sleep Ramm who came on in the first inning after USU's Cindy Krueger was knocked off the mound overpowered WSC by giving up no hits in five and innings and just one walk Williams on the other hand kept USU in check with a smart combination of low and away strikes which were turned into routine popups and an pitch that had the Aggies baffled "I've been working on the pitch a lot” said Williams after picking up her “best ever” win “I just tried to keep it low and away and get that first strike in” one-thi- rd off-spe- ed off-spe- ed The Wildcats played flawless defense in the second game after committing three costly errors in the first They got their winning run in the bottom of the first in a situation Krueger breezed through the first two batters registering two strikeouts but suddenly lost it by walking Cindee Secrist then giving up a single to Julie Hacking two-o- ut USU’s and an RBI double to Kathy Lewis f “I don't think it was on our part” said Ag coach Uoydene Searle after the disappointing loss “We played great defense but like I told the girls you can’t win if you don’t drive in the runs” Utah State's only threat came in the fourth inning when Yolanda Herald Journal scoreboard Arvizu singled stole second and reached third on a fielder’s choice But with two outs Aggie Janet Leising grounded back to Williams to end the inning Saturday’s loss turned the Aggie emotions completely around after Friday’s split The Ags were expecting a sweep Saturday and a split with their closest rivals was indeed welcomed “I felt really good about the Friday split” said Searle between games Saturday “I think both Utah and us have a good shot at going far in the national tournaleft-field- er ment” Saturday’s doubleheader ended the regular Intermountain Conference schedule The regional tournament begins Thursday in Albuquerque NM and the Ags will depart Wednesday His 62 good for three - stroke advantage Men's track 440-yar- HR— (SV) Bob Johnson 2B— (W) Deloy Rose (SV) Ballam Johnson Brent Fullerton SB— (W) Rose Kevin Johnson Adams (SV) Gregg Blotter Ballam 2 PGA results Houston Open At Houston May 2 2000-mete- Ken Riedli 1 Jeff McMurdie LP-Ba- llam BEEHIVE MEN'S INVITATIONAL Saturday at Water State relay — 1 Idaho State 420 2 Waiter State 427 3 Utah 429 4 Utah State 430 S Montana State 431 r stepplechase — 1 Reid Neumann (U) 4:151 2 Paul Pilkington (WSC) 4:144 3 Doug Vickerman (ISU) 4:251 4 Ken Stuck! (USU) 4:394 1500: 1 Doug Friedli (WSC) 3:535 2 Phil Stevenson (ISU) 4:0311 3 Greg Gensel (USU) 4:000 4 Steve Zehntner (MSU) no time 110 HH: and Ballam Robert over-confiden- ce 152 (MSU) (Par 71) 2 Shawn Dorr (WSC) 153 3 Randy Sparks (WSC) 154 4 Kevin Millkam (SUSC) 154 5 Steve Dick (WSC) 151 400: 1 Charles Waller (U) 474 2 Scott Walker (USU) 405 3 Tim Gray (MSU) 495 4 Rich Hanson (USU) 4954 5 Dave Sorenson (WSC) 5004 100- -1 Mark McGavish (ISU) 110 2 Steve Baggs (WSC) 111 3 Greg Stem (U) 111 4 Fred Oravillo (WSC) 114 5 Kevin Brown (MSU) 11 A Javelin — 1 (New stadium own stadium Robert Shirts Kent Bendixen (USU) 259-and school record breaking in 1980) 2 mark of 241-3 Neal Mower (SUSC) 244-4 Bruce McKean (MSU) 211-(USU) 223-5 Ken Young (ISU) Shot put -- 1 Lance Deal (MSU) 56 4' 2 Bob Arello (USU) 51 71b 3 Paul Poliovic 5 4 Scott Steckei (MSU) (ISU) Rich Fejer (ISU) 1 400 Rich Nixon (U) 1:521 2 Terry Elton (WSC) 1:534 3 X Mike Sak (USU) 1:5X1 4 Steve Tueller (U) 1:541 X Steve Kreal (ISU) 1:544 2 Long jump — 1 Greg Stene (U) X Tom Obray Fred Oravillo (WSC) 5 4 Jim Homer (ISU) (USU) Dave Pendleton (U) 1 Shawn Dorr (WSC) 5X4 IH 2 Willie Schoenbeck (MSU) 541 X Mitch Henderson (ISU) 541 4 Don Roberts (WSC) 551 X Kevin Millkam (SUSC) 540X High iump — 1 Mark Davenport (U) by (New stadium record old record of Northern Arizona's Steve McFadden in X Jim 2 Rick Barrett (ISU) 1900) 4 Terry Eichelberger Homer (ISU) X Mark Birch (USU) (MSU) 20- 0- 1 Greg Stene (U) 217 2 Mark McGavish (ISU) 21X X Fred Oravillo (WSC) 229 Triple iump — 1 Bryan Johnson (MSU) X Jim 2 Danny Jackson (ISU) Homer (ISU) 44 2 4 Dave Pendleton (U) 44-X Tom Obray (USU) Pole vault — 1 Cory Johnson (USU) X Brian Wofden 2 Chip Pasley (U) KirkTeska (MSU) 139 (ISU) 1 5000 Keenan Hart (SUSC) 14:59x 2 Byron Davies (U) 15:4747 X Rich Baker (WSC) 15:497 X Greg Long (USU) 15:497 X Bill Devine (ISU) 15:507 Mile relay — 1 Idaho State 3:191 2 Montana State 3:202X X Utah 3:2177 X Weber Stafe3:22XX Utah State 3:2315 2 Discus -- 1 Lance Deal (MSU) 111-x Brian Brett Mickelson (USU) 145-X Rich Feier (ISU) Silvester (USU) 152-X Paid Polkovich (ISU) 147-TEAM SCORES: Idaho State 59 Utah 58 Montana State 57 Weber State 5X Utah State 52 Southern UtahState IX 9 191-1- 50-4- 1 4 - 4 22-- 22-- 1 Streck sets record leads Houston - 440-yar-d 1 2 two Houston Open winners Wayne Levi in 1979 and Curtis Strange in 1980 The course is playing tougher than in recent years however because the rough was allowed to grow “The rough is severe" Streck said “I’m as surprised as anyone that the rounds are so (UPI) — Ron Streck bolted from 62 the field to shoot a course-recor- d e lead after a and take Saturday three rounds of the $350000 Houston Open one of the Texas tournaments he likes so well Streck consistently laying his ball close to the hole with superior chips and sand shots gave himself five birdie putts of 15 feet or less on the front nine He followed with four birdie e putts on the back as he pulled away from HOUSTON three-strok- low” He declined to predict if on Sunday he would be able to break the course record of set by Strange and Lee Trevino last year but he admitted to having another record on his mind d Streck holds the PGA record of 125 which he shot at San Antonio’s Oak Hills Country Club in the 1978 Texas Open “I'd like to break it” he said That Texas Open was Streck’s only PGA victory and since then he never has led a PGA 72-ho- two-tim- US Open champion Hale Irwin Streck was tied for 12th place after suc198 total was cessive 68s His Ir18 to were holes with At play par win and Jerry Pate One stroke behind them were Ben Crenshaw and Jay Haas Only seven players were within five strokes of the leader better than the Streck's 62 was Woodlands Country Club record set by the last er 54-ho- le le er two-roun- er tournament Last week he finished fifth in the New Orleans Open “I'm feeling really good about the way I’m playing” he said “T had four solid rounds at New Orleans Maybe shooting this low round today will put me over the top” Streck 26 of Tulsa Okla has had other good tournaments in the Lone Star State finishing eighth at Houston last year and sixth last year at the Byron Nelson in Dallas Almost everyone but Streck Irwin and Pate struggled on the gloomy day Second-roun- d leader Bob Gilder managed just me birdie and maintained his standing Tom Kite who was one stroke off the k lead following 36 holes shot a 70 with bogeys at the par-- 3 No 5 hole and the par-No 6 back-to-bac- 4 Utah State golfers 14th in Arizona Tourney Ariz — A SCOTTSDALE had Utah schedule that rigorous State University on the road 25 days in April may have taken its toll at the ninth annual Sun Thunderbird Collegiate Golf Classic The Aggies were 14th in the event field in the which ended Friday at McCormick Ranch The tournament Devil-Phoen- preceded Monday’s opening of the championships in Long Beach Calif and the bad news for USU was that league rivals San PCAA Jose State (the team champ) Pacific and Long Beach State all placed ahead of the Ags San Jose edged Southern Cal by one stroke with a 1100 aggregate ix 15-tea- m 54-ho- le SJS and USC were followed by host Arizona State L(l108) Brigham Young (1109) San Diego State (1112) Colorado (1123) Oregon (1127) Fresno (1130) UCLA (1135) Stanford (1137) UOP (1140) Long Beach (1144 tied with Arizona) USU (1149) and Weber State (1158) Colorado’s Steve Jones was the individual medalist with a total of 217 A group of four players were one stroke back one-over-p- ar including Ed Leuthke of Fresno and San Jose’s Mark Cato and Mike Barnblatt For the Aggies defending NCAA titlist Jay Don Blake shot his worst round of the season Friday a 78 and finished at 227 Jess Moreno led the way with a 225 while Vance Christiansen matched Blake's 227 and Roy Christensen shot 242 Corey Johnson overcame a headwind to clear in the pole vault and emerge as the Aggies’ only other individual winner Scott Walker the in the USU record-holdhurdles took a break from his specialty and pocketed a second in the open 400 It was the sophomore from Hillcrest High's first 400 without hurdles this year except for relays He was clocked in 485 just behind Utah's Charles Waller Brett Mickelson and Brian Silvester provided e finish in the discus the Aggies with a behind Montana State's Lance Deal's 181-- 7 Mickelson had a best of 165-- 4 and Silvester's top mark was 0 Another weight man Bob Arello had a 16-- 0 OGDEN — NCAA javelin title contender Kent Bendixen dashed his own school and stadium records Saturday but Utah State University field placed fifth in an incredibly at the Beehive Invitational Track and Field Meet Bendixen’s throw of 259-- 9 broke his Wildcat Stadium mark of 248-- 0 set last year Idaho State claimed the team title with 59 points with Utah (58) Montana State (57) host Weber State (53) and the Aggies (52) all not far behind Southern Utah State (13) rounded out the field well-balanc- 400-met- er ed mOTHERlSjDAYiSPECIAL Mom deserves the best Deluxe Digital Door Opener Garage Convenience and STANLEY ProfcssioMl Model 5100-- strong effort for USU with a shot put to Other Aggie finish behind Deal’s included Ken Stucki in the 2000 steeplechase (fourth) Greg Gensel in the 1500 (third) Neal Mower in the javelin (third) Tom Obray in the'long jump (third) Mark Birch in the high jump (fifth) Obray in the triple jump d (fifth) Greg Long in the 5000 (fourth) the and the mile team (fourth) squad relay 51-7- 56-61- 4 place-winne- rs 440-yar- (fifth) The Aggies will be at home Saturday in Maughan Track Stadium for an invitational meet The PCAA championships are the following week Ag women claim track invite win 1 3 H P mol of 3 minute light time delay back up Safe T Cycle timed reverie lyitem Instant safety reverse Digital controls for increased security and reliability LED transmitter with 1024 possible codes Quality professional installation - 7 4 154-1- 0 2 Women's track By United Press International Conference Finals USU WOMEN'S QUADRANGULAR BasXof-Save-n at Utah State meters — 1 Linda Bourn (Unnat) Cheryl Osborne (AITC) 119 3 Delene Thomas (USU) 121 X Nancy Miller (USU) and Lori Bowen (BYU) 124 1 200 Cheryl Osborne (AITC) 24X 2 Delene Thomas (USU) 2XX X Melanie Washburn (BYU) 250 X Shellee Coleman 100 11X 2 - Redd (WSC) 24x (USU) 552 (new old mark of 553 by Sharon Acker of Arizona State in 1979) 2 Julie Gallup (MSU) 589 X Janet Fletcher (USU) 1:01X X Susan Webster (WSC) 1:01X 5 Cathy Wilson (USU) 1 :0X1 1 300 Gwen White (USU) 2:140 2 Diane Kenny (BYU) 2:170 X Cheryl Hewlett (BYU) 2:1SX X Janet Fletcher (USU) 2:21X X Leslie Peterson (BYU) (WSC) 2XX X Jayne - Nancy Miller stadium record breaks 400 1 1500 -- 1 Chris Hoth (MSU) 4:409 2 Lynn Creek (MSU) 4:4X2 X Noreen Shea (USU) 4:559 1 5000 Noreen Shea (USU) 18:314 2 Deb Steckei (MSU) 19:51X 3 Loni Hoi demess (BYU) 20:009 100 hurdles — 1 Linda Bourn (Unatt) 134 (new stadium record breaks old mark of 1X7 by Brenda Calhoun of Arizona State In 1979) 2 Konnie Mackey (USU) 1X1 X Stella Edwinson (BYU) 1X1 X Holly Foxhs (MSU) 1X0 X Wendy Skiver (USU) 152 400 hurdles — 1 Konnie Mackey (USU) 1:011 (ties stadium record by Brenda Wilson of Arizona State 1979) 2 Stella Edwinson (BYU) 1:01 A X Jennifer James (USU) 1:01X X Tuiga Helander (BYU) 1 :02x X Grace Zdrazil (USU) 1:0X0 1 Mile Relay Utah State 3:5XX 2 Weber State College 4:30X 1 BYU (Magna Villar-rel- l relay Jennifer Davidson Lori Bowen Melanie Washburn) 38x 2 Utah State 4X9 X Weber State 490 relay — I Montana State (Jullie Gallux Chris Hoth Bett Rounds Lynn Crack 9:41X 2 Utah State 10:342 Long jump — 1 Lola Rockewell (WSC) 2 Sherrie Shelton (MSU) 18V X Delene x Wendy Limbaugh Thomas (USU) X JoSimmonson (USU) (USU) High lump — I Evelyn Jabiles (USU) 2 Julie Jones (BYU) X Lauri Dew X Beth Persons (MSU) X (BYU) Kristen Frazier (WSC) XX Shot put -- 1 Heather Kuusela (BYU) 0 2 Julie Jones (Unatt) 45- 3 Carol Holland (MSU) X Vicki Powell - - 440-yar-d - 18-- 18-- 17-- 17-- 5-- 5-- 5-- 5-- 45-1- (USU) X 40-- Janet Buhlor (WSC) Discus — 1 Julie Jones (Unatt) 148-- (new stadium record breaks old mark of 148-- by Ria Stalman of Arizona State in 1979) 2 Heather Kuusela (BYU) 159 9V X Karlyn Gansel (USU) 152 8 X Deb Holliday (MSU) 140-X Carol Halland (MSU) 137-Javelin -- 1 Glenna Carter (BYU) 131-- 2 3 Mona (MMichelle Hansen (WSC) 123-cClain (MSU) 118 3 X Janet Buhler (WSC) ' X Kathy Wilkinson (MSU) 114-TEAM SCORES: Utah State 17X Brigham Young 118 Montana State 92 Weber State one-quart- er 117-8- 57 (All Times EOT) Eastern jonferenco Philadelphia vs Boston (Series tied Apr 21 — Philadelphia 10X Boston 104 Apr 22 Boston 11X Philadelphia 99 Apr 24 Philadelphia 110 Boston 100 Apr 24 Philadelphia 107 Boston 105 Apr 29 — Boston 111 Philadelphia 109 May 1 Boston 100 Philadelphia 98 at Boston 2 pm Western Conference Houston vs Kansas City (Houston wins aerlex ) Apr 21 -- Houston 97 Kansas City 78 Apr 22 — Kansas City BX Houston 79 Apr 24 — Houston 92 Kansas City 88 Apr 24 Houston 100 Kansas City 89 Apr 29 — Houston 97 Kansas City 88 3-- -- - May3-Philadel- phia - Transactions Friday Baseball Texas — Recalled pitcher Dave Schmidt from Tulsa of the Texas League Toronto — Signed outfielder Kevin and assigned him to Medicine Hat (Alberta) of the Pioneer League Football Los Angeles — Signed three free agents — tight end Vic Rakshani quarterback Rick Minyard and wide receiver and kick retur er Stacy Colbert Pittsburgh — Signed three free agents -kicker David Trout of Pittsburgh tight end Raymond Cokrell of Baylor and defensive tackle Ricky Isaac of Northeast Louisiana San Francisco — Traded defensive tackle Ted Vincent to Tampa Bay for a draft choice next year waived comerback Charles Cornelius signed free agents Don Drake a defensive tackle from Cal and Walt Easley a fullback from WOst Virginia Tampa Bay — Signed four free agents: specialty teams player Billy Cesare quarterback Jeff Quinn defensive lineman David Clark and running back David Hersey acquired defensive lineman Ted Vincent ter a draft pick in 1982 — Washington Signed two free-agerookies: offensive tackle Joe Jacoby of Louisville and defensive end Neil Elshira of Oregon Basketball Denver Rehired former coach Donnie Walsh as an assistant Ben Jobe resigned as an assistant named scout John Nillen an assistant n lOth-roun- d a d - Hockey Buffalo — Accepted the resignation Coach Roger Neilson Baseball leaders (based Aggie softball UTAH STATE X WSC 0 Score by Innings record-breakin- 45-lO- transmitter FREEI) Crawford Door Sales 131 South 400 East PHONE 42 Ogden 245-6- 1 731-52- 22 Hyrum m ELECTRIC MOTOR SUPPLY 501 N Main Logon 8 We can handle any problem related mm - R H E 000 000 0- -0 3 1 Utah State 100 000 x — 1 2 0 Weber State Cindy Krueger Mary Lou Ramm (I) and Kerry Himmdspach Tammie Williams and Williams LP — Barbara Nielsen WP (WSC) Kathy Lewis SB -(Krueger 2B USU) Arvizu - - Prep baseball Softball Shoes WEBER9 SKYVIEW4 Score by Innings 8y Nike — Fumo — Spalding — Spot lilt Submersible pump service - power tool sales & repair 80 E WEBER STATE 1 UTAH STATE 0 Score by Innings INC PLUS: 224-58- H 752-417- to electric motors 21 Provo-Qre- UBlfgf'8 I - vizu tt 159-91- (and Dad gets a second R 000 000 0 — 0 2 3 Weber State 130 002 x -- 4 7 0 Utah State Diana Van and Barbara Nielsen Mary Lou Ramm and Janet Leising WP — (USU) Yoiand ArRamm LP Van SB 5-- plus installation 487-74- 14-- 0 14-- 9 first-plac- 1 Show Salt Lake 1 0 (Continued from page 17) jump Osborne won the 200 in 243 while Thomas clocked 248 and an even 184) leap in the long jump a mere one and inches behind the winning mark of Weber State’s Lola Rockwell Knudson's belief prior to the meet was a BYU domination in the middle distances But Gwen White and Noreen Shea saw it differently White gave the Aggies a victory in the 800 with a 2:160 e time to beat favorites Diane Kenny (2:170) and Howlett (2:182) both of BYU Cheryl Shea fresh off a third place finish in the 1500 grabbed the 5000 in easy fashion breezing to an 18:314 clocking Montana State’s Deb Steckei was the closest runner in 19:513 e Evelyn Jabiles added Utah State’s only other finish in the high jump Jabiles and the four other competitors (Julie Jones and Lauri Dew of BYU Beth Persons of MSU and Weber’s Kristan Frazier) all cleared 5 with Jabiles getting the win on fewer misses g Had it not been for Julie Jones' throw in the discus BYU’s Heather Kuusela could have been a double winner She won the shot put with a toss of and 4 throw placed second in the discus with a pre-rac- security at the touch of a button 44-5- 1 44-4- 1 2:221 two-thre- 156-1- 4-- 4-- - Bendixen paces Ag thinclads at Weber Special to The Herald Journal 4-- 4-- 4 mmmmp mm Brooks Weber ' Sky View Shawn Sederholm R 101 103 CTO 0- 000 9- -- and Kent E H 9 4 0 7 10 4 Adams MS?!1 Batting on 35 of |