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Show SUSC wrestling team to stage quadrangle meet here Sat. Jan. 15 The Thunderbirds of Southern South-ern Utah State end their home wrestling schedule Saturday at 11:30 a.m. with a quadrangular quad-rangular meet in the War Memorial Fieldhouse. The T-Birds will host Northern North-ern Arizona University, Fort Lewis College and Snow College Col-lege on T-Birds mats. Each of the three schools are of unknown un-known quality but have had very strong teams in the past. "We have not seen the other schools in meets so far this year but they have had some very strong teams in the piist and should be matched fairly evenly throughout the quadrangular," quad-rangular," Coach Joe Lapour stated. The quadrangular will be run on two mats with each team meeting the others once during the day. Both mats will have matches going at the same time. The T-Birds are 3-3 in duals so far this year. They finished eighth out of nine teams in the tough Beehive tournament. There are 19 men working out at the present and wrestle-offs wrestle-offs are being held in every weight to determine who will go at each weight. In the 118 pound class Is Pete Buatti and Gary Jones. At 126, Bill' Van of Delta and Kevin Taysom of Cedar City. Going at 134 is Sam Machulis, Craig Talbot of Delta and Gordon Jensen. The 142 pound class seeg Herb Stinson and Ralph Harris. At 150 !s Ladd Holman of Delta, the only man in his weight class. The 158 class has Richard Tree and Steve HennLfor battling it out. Jerry Lynch of Cedar City and Lee Hunsaker are going against each other in the 167 pound class. The 177 and 190 nounrt classos have four men battling it out--Craig Gordon, Shelley, Idaho; Scott Teeples, Delta; John Gaither, Moab, and Karl Paxman of Cedar City. Steve Johnson finishes the team out in the heavyweight class. "1 am very pleased to see so many men out making for so much better competition in practice. We have a good team this year and this meet this w?ek should give the wrestl-. wrestl-. ing fans some editing wrestl-ling wrestl-ling to watch," Coach Lapour said. |