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Show Wyoming wrestlers bulldog Miners he relaxed a bit and Thomas put the pin on him. That was one of the two Miner victories on the day. Mike Birch brought in the other Miner win, in his . second match. In his first Birch faced Stevens of Mountain View, the top seed at 132 pounds. Stevens got five points in the first round on a takedown and a near fall, but Birch didn't let him run away with the match. He didn't drop another point in the final two rounds, going down 5-1. Birch was up against South Summit rival Crittenden Critten-den in his second contest. He showed that he wasn't the least big fatigued by racking up a 12-2 lead on points before getting the pin early in the third period. ijf&inn-it 11 19 vr At 138 pounds Eric Robin- -son of Park City first wrestled Stosiek of Skyline, and was quickly pinned less than a minute into the match. He was again pinned in his second match, this time by Geisler of Mountain View near the end of the first round. Geoff Palmer, at 145 pounds, also didn't fare well for the Miners. He was pinned in the second round of his match with South Summit's Sum-mit's Prescott, and lost his second match on points 9-3 to Neal of North Summit. On the junior varsity front, all four Park City grapplers were pinned early in the match. John Vetterli, Steve Jacobson, Mike Brose, and Brent Adams lasted only a combined time of less than six minutes, the time of one complete match. Schaub attributed the losses to the inexperience of his junior varsity and to the fact that the Wyoming and other area schools have such large wrestling programs that they have more competition on the J.V. level. Schaub was impressed by the showings of Birch and Leavitt in the tournament. "They are always in it," he said. He thinks those two have the best chance to make it past the regionals into the state competition. Again the lack of first takedowns was a killer. In all of their matches the Miners didn't get the first takedown once, so in every match the Miners started at a disadvantage. Schaub said one third of all practice time is spent working on the problem, but that it isn't paying off so far. The Miners next travel to Duchesne for a dual match with Duchesne and Altamont today. by Randy Hanskat Treating the Park City visitors like steers at a rodeo, the Wyoming wrestlers wrest-lers with a bit of help from other Region II teams, hog-tied the Miners last Friday in Evanston, allowing allow-ing only two varsity wins in 11 matches, and no junior varsity conquests in four attempts. Like the Park City basketball basket-ball team in its Summit Tournament last weekend, the wrestlers travelled to Evanston Friday afternoon looking mostly for the experience, exper-ience, not expecting many match wins. "We kinda knew we were outmatched," said Coach Jesse Schaub Monday at practice. "It is a very strong tournament, and was their (the , Wyoming teams) first action of the season. They, looked like they were in mid-season form, though." In addition to the Wyoming Wyo-ming schools, many of which were comparable to 2A, Schaub was impressed by two other squads Skyline, Idaho, and Mountain View, Utah. Both of those teams faced many Park City wrestlers wrest-lers through the draw and did considerable damage. And host team Evanston wasn't much of a good host either, placing six kids in the finals of the tournament. For the Miners, the real benefit of the tournament was the chance to wrestle or see other Region 11 foes, because all were invited to Evanston. "Seeing their tendencies ten-dencies could come in handy," said Schaub. Miner Greg Reed at 105 pounds first faced Smith (no first names of the opponents were recorded) of Mountain View. But the two had barely taken to the mat when Smith first took down Reed, then got points for a near fall, then pinned him only 29 seconds into the match. In his second match against South Summit's Robertson, Ro-bertson, Reed lasted the entire three rounds, but was the victim of inexperience, going down 10-0. Schaub said the chance was there for Reed to get the pin, but he simply didn't have the knowledge or experience to recognize it. Ocey Leavitt at 119 pounds was a bright spot for Park City, said Schaub. Even though Leavitt lost both his matches, Schaub was im-pressedby im-pressedby Leavitt's great determination. Pack from Skyline was Leavitt's first foe. He was ' the top seed of the tournament tourna-ment at 119 pounds. Pack, who has one leg amputated, got the first takedown and kept pressure on the entire match, eventually winning 12-3 on points. Leavitt's second battle, against Roberts from Star Valley, Wyoming, again went three rounds. It was a reversal by Roberts and a technical violation by Leavitt Lea-vitt in the third round which made the difference. Final score was 5-2 Roberts. Miner Grant Thomas wrestled one match at 126 pounds against Hoffman of South Rich. Hoffman had built a strong 7-0 lead when |