WSC Sports Wildcats walk away with more Big Sky titles—tennis and golf Brad Larsen GOLF WSC won its 12th straight Big Sky Conference golf title May 18-19 at the Wildcreek Golf Course in Reno, Nevada, by 18 strokes. The ‘Cats faced their stiffest challenge to the By Nan Holyoak Asst. Sports Information Director crown in sometime by host NevadaReno, a team that rarely loses on its own home course. About the only sport that was not affected by the wet spring weather was women’s golf and only because the tournaments played by the Lady Wildcats were in San Diego, MATS JONMARKER walked off with the conference medal for a 218 game. Other team members to lead the charge were JOEL KRANZ and GREG WHISMAN, both seniors, along with TODD ERWIN, GLENN BANNISTER, SCOTT GEROUX, BRETT BENNYHOFF and JAMIE HARPER. The Wildcats received an NCAA tournament rating of tenth, and a bid as one of three teams in District . Seven to play in the championship Phoenix, Seattle and Gearhart, Ore. Weber State had the distinction of being the only Division II team in every tournament played this year and always finished in the middle of the pack despite playing with only four golfers most of the time. The Barry Nissenbaum won the Singles Conference Title at the 1983 National Invitational Tennis Tournament. tourney June 7-11 in Fresno, Calif.: TENNIS a qoe e Weber State's tennis team won every match in the eight-team round-robin to capture the 1983 Big Sky Conference tennis title. The championships were hosted by WSC and the final four rounds were forced indoors because of inclement | weather. For head coach KEITH COX, it _ was his third Conference title in the past five years and put the cap on a fine 22-7 season for the Wildcats. For their efforts, WSC was invited WSC’s Farley Gerber sets Big Sky golf Conference record to play in the 1983 NATIONAL INVITATIONAL MENT, May TENNIS TOURNA12-15 at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana. The Tournament consisted of 16 teams. The Wildcats placed 15th in the field. Individually, BARRY NISSENBAUM, a senior from Johannesburg, South Africa, finished up his four- TRACK & FIELD The outdoor track and field team didn't have to worry much about the weather at the Big Sky championships held May 18-21 at the Sun year career at WSC by winning his second straight Conference title at Number One Singles and became the all-time winningest tennis player in the school's history with 106 match wins in singles competition. ERIC STYRMOE, a junior from Tucson, Arizona, successfully defended his 1982 Number Two = Singles titles at the Conference meet. BILL COLLINS, Orem, Utah, a freshman from was a surprise winner ne Re el oi nl ae Se AL SS GERBER set a Big Sky conference record in the 3,000 Meter . Steeplechase (8:41.4). Gerber, a sophomore from South Jordan, Utah, had already broken the school record (8:40.1) and has qualified for aie leh ake ES eR aD, sa eee an Sea courts or low temperatures. overall at Tempe. Page 8 The first annual Mountain West Conference Tennis Championship was forced inside at Moscow, Idaho on May 6 and 7. Weber State placed the 1983 NCAA Outdoor Champion- The Lady Wildcats had another it; a4 n oe Fp. WSC golfers finished in the top 10 f E. Doubles. Styrmoe and senior CRAIG - individuals. Kerri Clark and Lori | ai BELL won at Number Two, while Collins and ROD HORTON (Soph) won at Number Three. Jill Berry and Jan Sanford team up to place second in MWAC Competition fourth in the MWAC Championship Texas. in two others. They placed sixth i Weber State's women’s tennis team had its trials with the weather cancelling some matches and being forced inside for others due to wet FARLEY 1-4, in Houston, pa good finish at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Lady ‘Cat Tennis The Wildcats, under the direction of head coach Chick Hislop are ERWIN STONE, a junior from Los Angeles, has marks of 10.3 in the 100 meters and 20.9 in the 200 meters, both times are the second best ever in Weber State history. The Wildcats have won three meets this season and placed second = record low team total of 939. a However, Weber State did finish 23 strokes better than BYU for the first — time ever for the lady golfers. Golf Classic (formerly Husky Invitational} at the Sahalee Country Club in Seattle where they finished fourth behind U.S. International, San Jose State and Southern giv a |. _ 7 California. Two Vegwert, were invited to compete at the NCAA Division I Golf Championship in Athens, Georgia Women 90's. ships, June by five strokes despitea WSC | Ss We ic I of Arizona State University in Tempe, with temperatures in the and the University of Washington made | shi a last round surge and beat the ‘Cats 9 4, at Number Six Singles. All three players went through the Tournament undefeated with 7-0 records. All three doubles teams took Conference crowns as well. Nissenbaum teamed with fellow senior KEVIN EASTERLY to take Number Angel Track Stadium on the campus stronger this season, Lady ‘Cats were left short handed early in the year losing one player to grades and another to illness. The Lady ‘Cats made their best showing of the year last fall when they hosted the Lady Wildcat Invitational at Wolf Creek Country Club. Weber State's Kerri Clark led through the first two rounds, but =. and had conference champions in Jill Snedeker at No.6 singles and Jan Sanford and Jill Berry at No.2 doubles. WSC's lady netters ended the season with an overall record of 10-10. Only one senior was lost to graduation, so with a key recruit or two the team should come back fair- ly strong next year. tally track: The women’s track team had its ups and downs with the weather as : well. Having to cancel one home meet due to heavy rain and holding another in 40-degree temperatures and wet conditions, the Lady ‘Cats managed to find sunny and mild conditions at Missoula, Montana in a | wit try a 2 do1 t] P 1 mid-May for the Mountain West ~ Conference Track and Field Cham- ~ pionship. Weber State placed sixth ~ among the eight schools and had All-Conference performances from the following: CONNIE KELLY (2nd, 200 m., 400 m. and 4x 400) Jill Snedeker places sixth in MWAC Singles relay); VALYNN SPAFFORD (3rd, — 100 and 200 m.); LIZ DOLEZAL, ~ CAMILLE DAVIS and SHELLEE COLEMAN (2nd, 4 x 400 relay); and Wp *° CARMEN BERLINERBLAU (3rd, 10,000 m.). -