WSC Sports _ | Signpost photo/Jeff Nickerson Indoor Track Weber State placed fifth (56 points) ployer. in the 6th Annual Big Sky Conference nity to mater. ni and Indoor Track and Field championships, held in Flagstaff, Arizona. The University of Idaho was winner with 105 points. limited by the sampus The Wildcats got first place finishes from STEVE BAGGS tudents riding a udents, umni. sending 1 check atching to the opment his 1983 crown in the 3,000 Meters in a time ‘kelman ind known y conmother, r Alumto pro» School ication of West blished hool of Vrights, ephew, ted that ised for nt proion. as been d. The current ion. attendove for eacher ht is a ard of college ct that loved ribute which leceasimum an en| to in s each holarge acyerson t. For ‘ding t the (801) of Medley 8:42.42... Relay The Distance of DARIN team WILLIAMS (800 Meters), ERWIN STONE (400 Meters), MARK WAYMENT (1,200 Meters) and FARLEY GERBER (1,600 Meters) won in a time of 10:05.76...Gerber also finish- 84408. ow the gift for (55 Meters) who set a Conference record in a time of 6.31...FARLEY GERBER defended ye con- fic pur- a surprise By ed second in the 1,500 Meter with a time of 3:56.97. Brad Larsen, WSC Sports Information run Farley Gerber has been ranked among the top three 3,000 Meter Basketball Steeplechasers in America, according the 14th time Weber State has won 20 to Track and Field News. He is ranked third behind BRIAN DEIMERS (1983 NCAA Outdoor champion from U. of Michigan) and American record or more holder HENRY For the second straight year, the Weber State College men’s basketball team posted a 23-8 record. It marked games in a season in its 22 years as a four-year college and the sixth time a Neil McCarthy-coached team has achieved the plateau. It was a season of “ups and downs" for the Wildcats. They with six straight wins, 74-73 victory over started out including Utah State a in calmness of a big-time poker player, shot 51 percent in both halves of the the Big Sky Post-Season Tournament, contest, but couldn't connect on free throws and the game went into two overtimes before USL claimed a 74-72 win. This year's squad was marked by a well-balanced scoring attack which outdoor Summer or more. For the second straight year, in RANDY WORSTER led the team (B23 Calvert Tom tions), (3.1 Farley Gerber Mathematics), s Computer Science}, Clark Robert Ac(3.5 nt Wayme Mark y), Histor (3.2 Accounting}, and Jason Webb (3.1 counting). if they won the first game in the newly expanded Conference format which called for Number One to play After two tough losses at Number Eight, Two vs. Seven and so on down the line. home to highly-regarded ..Lamar = _ (58-55) and Utah State had they a team Idaho, hosted road win over Gonzaga sandwiched days two just int one-po by ed defeat © won in between (94-84), the Wildcats all with wins over UC-Irvine (83-75) and Texas-Austin (82-67). JOHN PRICE (6-2 Sr. Guard) was named the Tour- nament MVP, while MARTIN (6-8 Fr. Forward) was named All-Tournament teams. NISH to the The ‘Cats suffered their only back@o-back losses of the year to end the pre-season conference schedule, losing at Southwestern Louisiana (69-58) and at Brigham Young (86-81 in overtime). Weber went into Big Sky Con- ference action with a 9-4 record. Weber won its first two against Nevada-Reno (80-62) games and a surprising Northern Arizona Univer- sity crew (66-54). A loss at Idaho State the next week (62-58) put WSC at 2-1 in league play going into the treacherous Montana road swing. Playing in Missoula against the the at time, Grizzlies, 15-2 WORSTER (6-7 Jr. forward) the Wildcats got 11 points from RANDY in over- time, defeating the Griz, 67-59. It was UM's only home loss of the season. In all the excitement, the Wildcats may have overlooked Montana State two nights later, losing to the Bobcats, 69-66. From there, Coach McCarthy's crew ran off nine straight Conference wins including one-point wins over seBoise State (56-55), won on a last cond shot by John (59-58) and Idaho Price, Montana (64-63) and a two- point win at Boise State. (an attorney It gave Weber the regular season championship and the right to host Logan. the Utah Classic in Salt Lake City MARSH in Salt Lake City who frequently works out with Gerber). Farley will red-shirt this year's 1984 collegiate earlier. The Vandals gave Weber they could handle before bowing, 67-58. The Season 9th Big Annual Tournament Sky had Post- Weber against Nevada-Reno and Montana against Montana State. The Wildcats had defeated Reno twice during the season and were riding a nine-game winning streak. But the Wolf Pack came out loose and hot, shooting 62 percent from the field and had 15 steals, dealing the Widcats an 85-68 homecourt loss. Reno went on to defeate Montana the next night and won the Conference championship and automatic NCAA Tournament berth. The Wildcats did not receive an ATLARGE berth, but did receive a bid to play in the prestigious NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT (NIT) for the first time in the school’s history, and were awarded a first round game at home. Behind Randy Worster's 20 points and 10 rebounds, Weber defeated FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, 75-63 to advance into the second round against the Rajun’ Cajuns of Southwestern Louisiana on the road in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Cajuns had already defeated the Wildcats once during the season, ex69-58 in Lafayette and it was time second the same the be to pected around. Weber State, however, had other ideas. The Wildcats, playing the despite only being 6-3, eh ___—_—_—— was Wrestling Price and Worster were each nam- ed First Team All-Big Sky Conference. Carradine was named to the It was the closest Big Sky Conference championship in wrestling ever, the Idaho State Bengals defeated defending champion, WEBER STATE, 84.00 to 83.75 to claim the Conference crown. The Second Team, while Jones and Camp- bell were each accorded Honorable Mention...Kent Hagan was voted the league's Top Reserve. He averaged 7.7 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.7 game coming 3 | per off the meet Carradine (3.0 in Welding Tech), Martin Nish (3.0 in Data Pro(3.6 in cessing) and Kent Hagan Physical Education) were each named to the All-Big Sky Conference Academic Team as well. For head coach Neil McCarthy, the 23 wins give him 180 in nine seasons for an average of 20 wins per year. He also became the winningest coach of all-time in the Big Sky Conference for overall games (180) and Conference games (85). Weber State drew an average of 7,695 fans per home game in the Dee the third highest Events Center, average in the seven-year history of the arena, marked by a season high of 11,179 for the Montana game. February held, was 24 in Ogden. (3.4 History}, Worster Randy Shawn Campbell (3.1 Accounting), Charles the Seven track athletes were named to the team’s leading rebounder at 7.3 per game. assists bench. for the Big Sky All-Academic squad for Indoor Track. They include: Dave scoring at 12.1, followed by JOHN PRICE (10.7), GREG JONES (10.5) (10.1) and CAMPBELL SHAWN CHARLES CARRADINE (9.6). Carradine, season to prepare Olympic games. Coach John Webb did have three conference champions who advanced to the NCAA meet. DAVE LUND won SKOG (Jr. from Brighton High) his third BSC title at 142 pounds. JAY (Jr. from Roy High) won WINWARD at 167 pounds and RYAN WESTERN (jr. from Delta High) won at 190 pounds)...KERRY (Jr. NORMAN from Box Elder High) and GARY GODEN (jr. from Highland High) 177,.respec- took second at 118 and tively. At the national NCAA Meet, DAVE LUNDSKOG became only the second wrestler in Weber State history to attain All-American status, finishing in EIGHTH "Tiny” PLACE. Scriven this season) pounds. 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