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Show Here are the winners of the season's diamond laurels . . . front from left, Ron Gray, Dick Peterson, Sonny Freston, Mark Ballif, Roy Nelson, Ron Stephens, Doug Brian, rear, Ron Harris, DeVon Britenbeker, Bert Hunsaker, Dick Brown, Ellis Christenson, Don Shaw, Rollo Hansen, Coach Milton Mecham. BASEBALL TEAM TAKES CHAMPIONSHIP Smashing defeat of Carbon College in the final game of the baseball season by a score of 18 to 2 gave Weber College Wildcats the Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in the sport for 1952. The diamond nine went into the I. C. A. C. finals with Carbon after drubbing the best in the northern division by besting Ricks College with scores of 8 to 7, 12 to 8, and 19 to 2. At the regional level, Weber divided an interesting series with Mesa of Grand Junction, Colorado, with counts of 4 to 2 for Weber and 4 to 3 for Mesa. Another triumph was an exhibition with Utah State Agricultural College nine in which the Wildcats edged the Aggies with a score of 3 to 2. Besides two warm-up games with local high schools, the team took on Hill Air Force Base in three sessions. The Airmen were held scoreless in one game as Weber batted in three runs. A Doug Bryan does heel and toe and ugly face routine as he casts a sinker past the willow. Ron Harris belts out a triple against Ricks. Home school audience had gone by that time . . . locals won 19 to 2. second game became a batters' field day when the Cats got 15 runs to 9 for the military. The third event ended 9 to 4 for Weber. Moundsmen were Doug Brian, Ron Stephens, Don Shaw and Rollo Hansen. Receivers were DeVon Britenbeker and Dick Brown. Richard Peterson speared pegs to first, Roy Nelson roamed second, and Mark Ballif did honors at third. Ron Gray crossed up the drives, pop flies and rollers into the shortstop's territory. Ron Harris operated in left field, Bert Hunsaker in center field and Sonny Freston in right field. Milton Mecham, who functions as football mentor in the fall, took the bow as coach of diamond activities. He hesitated a little at saying the team was the best Weber had had within the memory of modern man, but that was what seemed to be in his mind. The student body thought the same. TRACK Thinclads, evidently in a mixed mood for the track and field season, front from left are Dale Cowgill, Paul Slater, Bob Wheelwright, Larry Wright, Gerald King, and rear, Gary Loosli, John Cardon, Blaine Taylor, LaMont Lamb, Jerry Brett, Rayo Budge Coach Clair Anderson. Wildcat trackmen heaved, ran and leaped their way to accomplishment in the cinder campaign, participating altogether in some four meets creditably, according to the report of Coach Clair An-derson. The record was: Invitational meet, Nampa, Idaho, in which the Wildcats took three out of eight first places. Invitational meet, Brigham Young University, Provo, in which the Wildcats took "a lot of medals," according to Coach Anderson's statement of the outcome. Westminster meet, Salt Lake City in which the Wildcats made 70 points and won the meet, Snow 56 points, Westminster 45 points. I. C. A. C. meet, Salt Lake City, in which Ricks College won with 97 5/6 points, B. A. C. took 74 5/6 points, Weber took 37 points, Dixie took 27 1/2 points, Westminster took 26 points, Snow 19 points and Carbon 10 points. In the big finale for the I. C. A. C. crown, the Wildcats got two firsts with Gary Loosli in the javelin throw and Dale Cowgill, Don Colvin, Don Shaw and Paul Slater in the 880 relay. When he managed a third in the 440 and a fourth in the discus, Loosli enlarged upon his points won with the javelin heave of 169 feet 6 inches to become the standout trackster for Weber. Lamont Lamb won the only second place for the Wildcats when he gained that spot with the shotput. Jerry Brett got third in javelin, Cowgill got fifth in the 220 low hurdles, and Blaine Taylor won a fourth in the 440. Gary Loosli heaves the platter, LaMont Lamb tosses the shot, Blaine Taylor and Larry Wright ankle around the cinder path during the 440 sprint warm-up. |