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Show . - - - 1 ) DUAL WINNERS Jean and Richard Vincent were winners in Jepp Class. They got trophies to show for it. Ute Cougar Basketball by Jack Hill- Jerry Pimm at Utah had a great recruiting year. He signed five very sought after freshmen that will keep Utah in the WAC title race for the next four years. However, in witnessing the first round of the Utah Classic it became painfully clear how much the Utes will miss Jeff Jonas. Jonas, billed as the "world leader in assists", made Utah go. Last year to the WAC title and the final game of the NCAA Western Regionals against Nevada-Las Vegas. As yet Coach Pimm has not found an adequate replacement for Jonas and moving two time all-conference all-conference forward, Jeff Judkins to guard is not the answer. As a forward, Judkins is a super player. As a guard, he's just another player. High school wonder boy from Skyline, Danny Vra'nes, made the transistion . to college ball and looks good in a starting role. He's white but jumps like he was black. The Utes signed six foot ten inch Tom Chambers right out from under BYU. Along with veteran Buster Matheny, he should carry Utah to another 20 game season. BYU? One veteran basketball authority here in town predicted predic-ted the "new breed" at BYU would go 6-20 this year. That was before the season started and the Cougars nearly beat UCLA in Pawly Pavillion. That game caused fickle BYU fans to flock to the Big Mac expressing sentiments like "we've got a good team this year." Now that Coach Frank Arnolds Ar-nolds squad is 1-5, the sentiments sen-timents are, "what happened to them." By seasons end, those same fans will stay away in record numbers, claiming no association with that "good team." Coach Arnold recruited two good players in Danny Ainge and Keith Rice. He also gave a full scholarship to Paul Voss, a seven-footer that didn't score a point in the UTC j.v. game. As one sports buff remarked, "BYUshould trade Arnold to Utah for Pimm, then the Utes would have another turkey to go with Wayne Howard." |