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Show Babbits garner wrestling title; Redmen place 4 in State meet The Delta Rabbits, perenial wrestling ehannpions of Region Re-gion Eight, walked off with the AA division championship champion-ship at the tournament held Friday and Saturday at Millard-High School. The Ralbhitts picked up 125-Y2 125-Y2 points for first place honors. hon-ors. The host Millard Eagles were second with 109 and the Redmen of Cedar High School finished third with 85 points. Dixie was fourth with 40 and Hurricane was fifth with 32 points. The Rabbits dominated first places In the tournament picking up seven titles in the various weights. Millard captured cap-tured threfi first places and the Redmen had two finish in first place. Craig Rollo and Dan Humphrey Hum-phrey of the Redmen both won their respective weights and finished out the regular season sea-son and region tournaments with perfect records of 20 wins and no losses. Rollo is wrestling at 119 pounds and Humphrey is in the unlimited classification. Those finishing first and second will advance to the state tournament to be hosted In Cedar City by the Redmen Friday and Saturday of this week. In addition to Rollo and Humphrey the Redmen will have two other participants in the state finals. Mark Morrison, Mor-rison, wrestling at 98 pounds placed second in the region and will advance. Vic Sundquist Sund-quist grappling at 145 pounds also picked up a second place and will be in the state finals. Two other of the Redmen participated In wrestle-backs for second place but failed to advance. Brent Goodman in the 105 class won his opening match and wrestled for the championship only to lose to Blaine Abbott of Delta. The loss forced him into the wrestle backs and he lost, by a Judges decision to Kendall Quarnberg of Fillmore. Goodman and Quarnberg were tied at 2 all at the end of regulation time and wrestled wrest-led in three one-minute overtime over-time rounds. At the end of the three extra rounds the two i were still tied and the tie was broken by a decision of three judges, which allowed Quarnberg Quarn-berg to advance to the state as second place. At 112 pounds Ken Moss of the Redmen also wrestled back but was defeated for the right to advance. Moss defeated Keith Loung-bury Loung-bury of Dixie to be seeded fourth in the tournament. He then lost to Spencer Neilson of Delta, the eventual champ-ion. champ-ion. The loss forced him Into the consolation round where he defeated Keith Bettrldge of Hurricane. He then wrestled back against John Whitaker of Millard and lost a close decision de-cision finishing third in his weigth. The Rabbits as Region Eight winners in AA division will also b.3 one of the favorites to capture the state title this year. The Rabbits qualified nine men for state competl-tion. competl-tion. Seven of them captured first places and two finished second. The Eagles will be close behind be-hind with eight men advancing advanc-ing to the state, but of that number only three finished first and five will enter as second place men. The Redmen placed four men in the state, two firsts and two seconds. Hurricane advanced only two men to state, both second places and the Dixie Flyers will have one man advancing to the state as a second place finisher at 185 pounds. Other Redmen who garnered points for the Redmen in the tournament included: 126 - Theron Heaps, fourth place. Heaps won his opening match with Stacey Hughes of Dixie to be seeded fourth in the tournament. 132 Dan Jack, fourth place. Jack, defeated Doug Harper of Dixie to be seeded fourth In th. tournament. 138 . Brian Terry, third place. Terry was defeated by Greg Kesler of Millard in the opening round then decision-ed decision-ed David Winona of Dixi.- 14-4 for third plac honors. 135 Arnie Graff, finished (Continued bn tfext Page) Region 8 Wrestling . . (Continued from Preceeding Page) fifth. He was defeated in his match for fourth place seeding. seed-ing. 167 . Steve Moss, fourth. 185 Jim Callison, third. Callison a 1 1 h ough leading throughout the major portion of his opening match, suffered suffer-ed a 3 2 loss at the hands of Paul Snow of Dixie forcing him into the consolation bracket. In the consolation championship he pinned Bill Teeples of Delta for third place honors. Kollo advanced to his championship with a pin over John Capel of Dixie in the opening round then he defeat-ed defeat-ed Hal Edwards of Mallard 6-0 for the championship. Humphrey pinned Ron Og-den Og-den of Delta in the opening round and won a hard fought 1-0 decision over Mike Hare of Millard for the championship. champion-ship. Morrison battled his way to second place by defeating Jaflf Schmutz of Dixie 7-0 in the opening round. In the championship he was defeat-ed defeat-ed by Gary Cox of Delta 10-0 and was forced into a wrestle back against Kevin Kesler of Millard. Morrison won the wrestle back and the right to advance to state. ''" ' At 145 Vic Sundquisit won his opening match against Denice Hughes of Dixie 5-1. He suffered a 3-0 setback ait the hands of Ward Moody of Delta for the championship Ibut finished up in second place. |