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Show T-birds host WrestlineTourney Saturday 82 The action doesn't slow down this week for Southern Utah State's wrestling team as five teams are scheduled to move into War Memorial Fieldhouse Saturday for the T-Birds dual meet tournament. First action gets underway at 9 am, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Fort Lewis, Northern Arizona, College of Eastern Utah, Snow College and SUSC will have teams competing, SUSC Coach Joe Lopour has indicated first round matches will pit UNLV-NAU, SUSC-Ft Lewis, and CEU-Snow. UNLV comes into the match with a 10-1 record, The Rebels only loss was to Long Beach State, and last week they knocked off UCLA (22-12), Stanislaus State (25-14) and Colorado Mines (40-4). The Rebels own two early season victories over the T-Birds (44-5 and 38-3), Pete Durazo (134) leads UNLV with a 16-3-1 record. lj.m mm. ... ' 3 ...iniu '"" , Vj ) . It will be Northern Arizona's first dual action of the season, The Axers leading wrestler is Charlie Schmieder (142) who placed second in the Big Sky last season MISMATCH ON THE MATS, What could be the largest heavyweight in the United States, Mesa's Greg Williams went on to pin the T- Bird's smallish Dan Humphrey, Mesa downed the Birds 30-13 in Memorial Fieldhouse action Saturday 177--Waynbe R Ritter (3-4-0) 190 -Phil Howa (4-3-0) HWT--Dan Humphrey (1-2-0) Scores of January 8: Mesa, Colorado, 32, Glendale Arizona, 12 Phoenix College 27, Mesa 16 Western State 26, Stanislaus State 9 Phoenix College 36, Stanislaus 3 Phoenix College 22, Western State 13 Western State 34, SUSC 6 Mesa College 30, SUSC 12 SUSC 43, Glendale 10 Mesa College 30, SUSC 12 Howa (190) also picked up wins against Mesa. Sams decisioned Mark Langlett 10-4 while Howa pinned Junior Ortiz in 2:31, In the Glendale match the T-Birds T-Birds won the last six matches including four by pin, Sams, Wayne Ritter (177), Howa and Dan Humphrey (HWT) all won via the fall, Phoenix College was the only team to win all of its matches (3-0) (3-0) , while Western State and Mesa were 2-1, Southern Utah's probable lineup with records: 118-Jim Tripp (4-6-1) or Howard Baca (0-1-1) 126John Marshall (1-5-0) 134--Craig Mizufuka (3-3-0) 142--Mark Jones (0-1-0) 150-Dave Most (2-5-0) 158-Job Sanders (5-6-1) 167-Eusebio Sams (7-2-0) Ft, Lewis comes into the match with a 0-4 record and a third place finish in the Fiesta Bowl Tournament. Leading the way for the Raiders are Andrew Carnero (118), Ron Owen (150), Jeff Bell (158) and Mark Trostel (HWT) The T-Birds carry a 2-6 record after winning one and dropping two duals last weekend, SUSC lost to Western State 34-6 and Mesa, Colorado, 30-13, before knocking off Glendale, Arizona, 43-10. Craig Mizufuka (134) led the T-Birds T-Birds with a 3-0 record including two pins. He picked up the only points against Western and earned a major decision (13-2) over Bernie Gieske of Mesa. Against Glendale, Mizufuka picked up one of the T-Birds five falls by pinning Dave Pellerin. Eusebio Sams (167) and Phil |